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Quantum vibronic effects on the electronic properties of molecular crystals
Arpan Kundu, Giulia Galli
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We present a study of molecular crystals, focused on the effect of nuclear quantum motion and anharmonicity on their electronic properties. We consider a system composed of relatively rigid molecules, a diamondoid crystal, and one composed of floppier molecules, NAI-DMAC, a thermally activated delayed fluorescence compound. We compute fundamental electronic gaps at the DFT level of theory, with the PBE and SCAN functionals, by coupling first-principles molecular dynamics with a nuclear quantum thermostat. We find a sizable zero-point-renormalization (ZPR) of the band gaps, which is much larger in the case of diamondoids (~ 0.6 eV) than for NAI-DMAC (~ 0.22 eV). We show that the frozen phonon (FP) approximation, which neglects inter-molecular anharmonic effects, leads to a large error (~ 50%) in the calculation of the band gap ZPR. Instead, when using a stochastic method, we obtain results in good agreement with those of our quantum simulations for the diamondoid crystal. However, the agreement is worse for NAI-DMAC where intra-molecular anharmonicities contribute to the ZPR. Our results highlight the importance of accurately including nuclear and anharmonic quantum effects to predict the electronic properties of molecular crystals.
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