title: Communications: A nonperturbative quantum master equation approach to charge carrier transport in organic molecular crystals.
abstract: We present a nonperturbative quantum master equation to investigate charge carrier transport in organic molecular crystals based on the Liouville space hierarchical equations of motion method, which extends the previous stochastic Liouville equation and generalized master equation methods to a full quantum treatment of the electron-phonon coupling. Diffusive motion of charge carriers in a one-dimensional model in the presence of nonlocal electron-phonon coupling was studied, and two different charge carrier diffusion mechanisms are observed for large and small average intermolecular couplings. The new method can also find applications in calculating spectra and energy transfer in various types of quantum aggregates where the perturbative treatments fail.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancun, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Liping
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Renhui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Linjun
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Shi