title: Exciton dissociation at donor-acceptor polymer heterojunctions: quantum nonadiabatic dynamics and effective-mode analysis.
abstract: The quantum-dynamical mechanism of photoinduced subpicosecond exciton dissociation and the concomitant formation of a charge-separated state at a semiconducting polymer heterojunction is elucidated. The analysis is based upon a two-state vibronic coupling Hamiltonian including an explicit 24-mode representation of a phonon bath comprising high-frequency (C==C stretch) and low-frequency (torsional) modes. The initial relaxation behavior is characterized by coherent oscillations, along with the decay through an extended nonadiabatic coupling region. This region is located in the vicinity of a conical intersection hypersurface. A central ingredient of the analysis is a novel effective mode representation, which highlights the role of the low-frequency modes in the nonadiabatic dynamics. Quantum dynamical simulations were carried out using the multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree method.
authors.affiliation: Département de Chimie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, F-75231 Paris cedex 05, France. tamura@ens.fr
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tamura
authors.forename: Eric R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Bittner
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Burghardt