Crucial Effects of Intramolecular Charge Distribution on the Neutral-Ionic Transition of Tetrathiafulvalene - p-Chloranil
arXiv:cond-mat/0107455 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.64.205107
Abstract
We calculated the Madelung energies of both the ground state and excited states in tetrathiafulvalene - p-chloranil (TTF-CA) by taking into account intramolecular charge distribution. The distribution is found to be significant in the neutral-ionic (NI) transition. In the ionic phase, the Madelung energy depends more strongly on the intermolecular distance perpendicular to the -stacking chains than on that along the chains. This indicates that simple single-chain models neglecting interchain electrostatic coupling are not adequate. The gain of the Madelung energy due to dimerization is concluded to be small compared with the other structural changes. We also calculated the formation energy of excited state domains, which appear in the initial process of the phase transition. A one-dimensional excited domain has the smallest energy among the possible domains with the same number of molecules, and the energy per molecule is considerably reduced in increasing the domain size. It is consistent with the experimental suggestion that a large number of excitations were generated by only one photon.
6 pages, 6 figures, Phys. Rev. B, in press
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