Condensed phase electron transfer beyond the Condon approximation
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Mavros, Michael G.
Hait, Diptarka
Van Voorhis, Troy
Mavros, Michael George
Date Issued
December 2016
Journal
Journal of Chemical Physics
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American Chemical Society (ACS)
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Mavros, Michael G. et al. “Condensed Phase Electron Transfer Beyond the Condon Approximation.” The Journal of Chemical Physics 145, 21 (December 2016): 214105
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Abstract
Condensed phase electron transfer problems are often simplified by making the Condon approximation: the approximation that the coupling connecting two charge-transfer diabatic states is a constant. Unfortunately, the Condon approximation does not predict the existence of conical intersections, which are ubiquitous in both gas-phase and condensed-phase photochemical dynamics. In this paper, we develop a formalism to treat condensed-phase dynamics beyond the Condon approximation. We show that even for an extremely simple test system, hexaaquairon(ii)/hexaaquairon(iii) self-exchange in water, the electronic coupling is expected to fluctuate rapidly and non-Condon effects must be considered to obtain quantitatively accurate ultrafast nonequilibrium dynamics. As diabatic couplings are expected to fluctuate substantially in many condensed-phase electron transfer systems, non-Condon effects may be essential to quantitatively capture accurate short-time dynamics.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
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https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4971166
