Electron transfer at electrode interfaces via a straightforward quasiclassical fermionic mapping approach
arXiv:2305.01027 · doi:10.1063/5.0156136
Abstract
Electron transfer at electrode interfaces to molecules in solution or at the electrode surface plays a vital role in numerous technological processes. However, treating these processes requires a unified and accurate treatment of the fermionic states of the electrode and their coupling to the molecule being oxidized or reduced in the electrochemical processes and, in turn, the way the molecular energy levels are modulated by the bosonic nuclear modes of the molecule and solvent. Here we present a physically transparent quasiclassical scheme to treat these electrochemical electron transfer processes in the presence of molecular vibrations by using an appropriately chosen mapping of the fermionic variables. We demonstrate that this approach, which is exact in the limit of non-interacting fermions, is able to accurately capture the electron transfer dynamics from the electrode even when the process is coupled to vibrational motions in regimes of weak coupling. This approach thus provides a scalable strategy to explicitly treat electron transfer from electrode interfaces in condensed-phase molecular systems.
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