Ab initio study of electron-phonon coupling in rubrene

作者:Ordejon P*; Boskovic D; Panhans M; Ortmann F
来源:PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2017, 96(3): 035202.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.035202

摘要

The use of ab initio methods for accurate simulations of electronic, phononic, and electron-phonon properties of molecular materials such as organic crystals is a challenge that is often tackled stepwise based on molecular properties calculated in gas phase and perturbatively treated parameters relevant for solid phases. In contrast, in this work we report a full first-principles description of such properties for the prototypical rubrene crystals. More specifically, we determine a Holstein-Peierls-type Hamiltonian for rubrene, including local and nonlocal electron-phonon couplings. Thereby, a recipe for circumventing the issue of numerical inaccuracies with low-frequency phonons is presented. In addition, we study the phenyl group motion with a molecular dynamics approach.

  • 出版日期2017-7-20