A new approach to calculate charge carrier transport mobility in organic molecular crystals from imaginary time path integral simulations
Creators
- 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)
Description
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
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.4919061;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Chemical Physics
- Journal Volume
- 142
- Journal Issue
- 17
- Journal Page Range
- p. 174103-174103.10
- ISSN
- 0021-9606
- CODEN
- JCPSA6
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 46121624
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BENCHMARKS; CHARGE CARRIERS; CHARGE TRANSPORT; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; ELECTRON-PHONON COUPLING; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; KUBO FORMULA; MOBILITY; MOLECULAR CRYSTALS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATH INTEGRALS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE
- Descriptors DEC
- CALCULATION METHODS; COUPLING; CRYSTALS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; INTEGRALS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SIMULATION
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