Published May 7, 2015 | Version v1
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A new approach to calculate charge carrier transport mobility in organic molecular crystals from imaginary time path integral simulations

  • 1. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancun, Beijing 100190 (China)

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We present a new non-perturbative method to calculate the charge carrier mobility using the imaginary time path integral approach, which is based on the Kubo formula for the conductivity, and a saddle point approximation to perform the analytic continuation. The new method is first tested using a benchmark calculation from the numerical exact hierarchical equations of motion method. Imaginary time path integral Monte Carlo simulations are then performed to explore the temperature dependence of charge carrier delocalization and mobility in organic molecular crystals (OMCs) within the Holstein and Holstein-Peierls models. The effects of nonlocal electron-phonon interaction on mobility in different charge transport regimes are also investigated

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Journal Title
Journal of Chemical Physics
Journal Volume
142
Journal Issue
17
Journal Page Range
p. 174103-174103.10
ISSN
0021-9606
CODEN
JCPSA6

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