title: Charge-transport-induced dissociation in donor-bridge-acceptor complexes.
abstract: Possible mechanisms for charge-transport-induced dissociation in donor-bridge-acceptor complexes are studied. Two mechanisms for dissociation at the molecular bridge are captured within a simple model of an anharmonic bridge vibration coupled nonlinearly to an electronic degree of freedom. A direct mechanism is associated with vibronic excitations to the nuclear continuum and an alternative dissociation mechanism involves intermediate quasibound vibrational states (Feshbach resonances). The two different mechanisms of charge-transport-induced dissociation are analyzed and their interplay as a function of the system parameters is examined. A parameter regime is suggested where the phenomenon should be experimentally accessible.
authors.affiliation: Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and The Lise Meitner Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.
authors.forename: Daria
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Brisker
authors.forename: Uri
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Peskin