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How the Interplay among Conformational Disorder, Solvation, Local and Charge Transfer Excitations affects the Absorption Spectrum and Photoinduced Dynamics of Perylene-diimide Dimers: a Molecular Dynamics/Quantum Vibronic Approach

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In this contribution we present a mixed quantum-classical dynamical approach for the computation of vibronic absorption spectra of molecular aggregates and their nonadiabatic dynamics, taking into account the coupling between local excitations (LE) and charge-transfer (CT) states. The approach is based on an adiabatic (Ad) separation between the soft degrees of freedom (DoFs) of the system and the stiff vibrations, which are described by the quantum dynamics (QD) of wave packets (WPs) moving on the coupled potential energy surfaces (PESs) of the LE and CT states. These PESs are described with a linear vibronic coupling (LVC) Hamiltonian, parameterized by an overlap-based diabatization on the grounds of time-dependent density functional theory computations. The WPs time evolution is computed with the multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree method, using effective modes defined through a hierarchical representation of the LVC Hamiltonian. The soft DoFs are sampled with classical molecular dynamics (MD), and the coupling between the slow and fast DoFs is included by recomputing the key parameters of the LVC Hamiltonians, specifically for each MD configuration. This method, named Ad-MD|gLVC, is applied to a perylene diimide (PDI) dimer in acetonitrile and water solutions, and it is shown to accurately reproduce the change in the vibronic features of the absorption spectrum upon aggregation. Moreover, the microscopic insight offered by the MD trajectories allows for a detailed understanding of the role played by the fluctuation of the aggregate structure on the shape of the vibronic spectrum and on the population of LE and CT states. The nonadiabatic QD predicts an extremely fast (∼50 fs) energy transfer between the two LEs. CT states have only a moderate effect on the absorption spectrum, despite the fact that after photoexcitation they are shown to acquire a fast and non-negligible population, highlighting their relevance in dictating the charge separation and transport in PDI-based optical devices.
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Alekos Segalina, Daniel Aranda, James Green, Vito Cristino, Stefano Caramori, et al.. How the Interplay among Conformational Disorder, Solvation, Local and Charge Transfer Excitations affects the Absorption Spectrum and Photoinduced Dynamics of Perylene-diimide Dimers: a Molecular Dynamics/Quantum Vibronic Approach. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2022, 18 (6), pp.3718-3736. ⟨10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00063⟩. ⟨hal-03871111⟩
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