Organic Molecules on Wide-Gap Insulators: Electronic Excitations

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2011-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/1103.3055v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

5 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

The electronic excitation of a conjugated molecule-insulator interface, as exemplified by the adsorption of benzoic acid and its phenolic derivative on NaCl(001) surface, is addressed by many-body Green's function methods. By solving the two-particle Bethe-Salpeter equation on top of the $GW$ quasiparticle energies, it turns out that instead of the intramolecular $\pi-\pi^\ast$ transition of the adsorbate, the lowest singlet excited state of the adsorbate system, being a charge transfer excitonic effect, is essentially assigned to the transition from the surface valence band maximum to the $\pi-\pi^\ast$ state of the molecule. An accurate description of this lowest electronic excitations confined at the interface requires the knowledge of a full excitonic Hamiltonian due to the sizable electron-hole exchange interaction.

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