Comparison of Computational Strategies for the Calculation of the Electronic Coupling in Intermolecular Energy and Electron Transport Processes

Identifier:  imarina:9332911

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina9332911

Authors:  Lopez, Xavier; Sanchez-Mansilla, Aitor; Sousa, Carmen; Straatsma, Tjerk P; Broer, Ria; de Graaf, Coen

Abstract:
Electronic couplings in intermolecular electron and energy transfer processes calculated by six different existing computational techniques are compared to nonorthogonal configuration interaction for fragments (NOCI-F) results. The paper addresses the calculation of the electronic coupling in diketopyrrolopyrol, tetracene, 5,5'-difluoroindigo, and benzene-Cl for hole and electron transport, as well as the local exciton and singlet fission coupling. NOCI-F provides a rigorous computational scheme to calculate these couplings, but its computational cost is rather elevated. The here-considered ab initio Frenkel-Davydov (AIFD), Dimer projection (DIPRO), transition dipole moment coupling, Michl-Smith, effective Hamiltonian, and Mulliken-Hush approaches are computationally less demanding, and the comparison with the NOCI-F results shows that the NOCI-F results in the couplings for hole and electron transport are rather accurately predicted by the more approximate schemes but that the NOCI-F exciton transfer and singlet fission couplings are more difficult to reproduce.