Short-Lived Electron Transfer in Donor-Bridge-Acceptor Systems
arXiv:1603.07715 · doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2016.09.034
Abstract
We investigate time-dependent electron transfer (ET) in benchmark donor-bridge-acceptor systems. For the small bridge sizes studied, we obtain results far different from the perturbation theory which underlies scattering-based approaches, notably a lack of destructive interference in the ET for certain arrangements of bridge molecules. We also calculate wavepacket transmission in the non-steady-state regime, finding a featureless spectrum, while for the current we find two types of transmission: sequential and direct, where in the latter, the current transmission increases as a function of the energy of the transferred electron, a regime inaccessible by conventional scattering theory.
replacement of arXiv:1603.07715, revised and title changed
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