Transfer matrix element

Here ak a ) is the annihilation (creation) operator of an exciton with the momentum k and energy Ek, operator an(a ) annihilates (creates) an exciton at the n-th site, 6,(6lt,) is the annihilation (creation) operator of a phonon with the momentum q and energy u) q), x q) is the exciton-phonon coupling function, N is the total number of crystal molecules. The exciton energy is Ek = fo + tfcj where eo is the change of the energy of a crystal molecule with excitation, and tk is the Fourier transform of the energy transfer matrix elements. 

For the extension to two dimensions we consider a square lattice with nearest-neighbor interactions on a strip with sites in one direction and M sites in the second so that, with cyclic boundary conditions in the second dimension as well, we get a toroidal lattice with of microstates. The occupation numbers at site i in the 1-D case now become a set = ( ,i, /25 5 /m) of occupation numbers of M sites along the second dimension, and the transfer matrix elements are generalized to... 

Different quantum chemical approaches can be invoked to calculate the electronic couplings. In many cases one can reliably estimate electron-transfer matrix elements on the basis of a one-electron approximation [27-29]. 

In summary, these computational results suggest that the GMH and FCD methods are quite robust and can be applied to DNA fragments where donor and acceptor levels are far from resonance. On the other hand, the results demonstrate that the electron-transfer matrix element does not vary significantly when a perturbation by an external electric field is applied. This find-... 

Each WCP dimer model consists of two purine bases (G and A) and two pyrimidine bases (C and T). According to the calculations, the two highest-lying orbitals HOMO and HOMO-1 of each duplex are mainly locahzed on the purine nucleobases, whereas the two occupied MOs following at lower energies, HOMO-2 and HOMO-3, are locahzed on pyrimidine nucleobases. Therefore, the purine-purine electronic coupling provides the dominant contribution to the hole transfer matrix elements, irrespective whether the bases belong to the same or to opposite strands. 

Rates of non-adiabatic intramolecular electron transfer were calculated in Ref. [331] using a self-consistent perturbation method for the calculation of electron-transfer matrix elements based on Lippman-Schwinger equation for the effective scattering matrix. Iteration of this perturbation equation provides the data that show the competition between the through-bond and through-space coupling in bridge structures. 

R. J. Cave and M. D. Newton, Generalization of the Mulliken-Hush treatment for the calculation of electron transfer matrix elements, Chem. Phys. Lett., 249 (1996) 15-19. 

By translational symmetry, local states in every symmetrically equivalent position are to be the same. Now, labeling these local states by en, n ranging, we let the transfer-matrix element... 

The Fermi Golden rule describes the first-order rate constant for the electron transfer process, according to equation (11), where the summation is over all the vibrational substates of the initial state i, weighted according to their probability Pi, times the square of the electron transfer matrix element in brackets. The delta function ensures conservation of energy, in that only initial and final states of the same energy contribute to the observed rate. This treatment assumes a weak coupling between D and A, also known as the nonadiabatic limit. 

The state splittings discussed above for rl are based on individual reactants which, aside from the bond length constraint (r1 ), are otherwise non-interacting. If we now consider the full initial and final states associated with the exchange reaction (Equations 2-7), we note that the relative energies of high-spin and low-spin states in the bimolecular transition-state complex may be affected by differences in initial and final state coupling, as represented by the electron-transfer matrix element, Hj f, discussed in the introduction. While for the "three-electron ... 

The issue is the determination of the form of the transfer matrix element M.f. From an analysis [69,70,74] that has its origin in the... 

Holstein treatment of the small polaron problem [58], the transfer matrix element is found to be... 

The overlap integrals can be used to construct the matrix to carry out Lowdin orthonormalization [42-44]. The last contribution, C of the table, is probably not as important as the first two. For simplicity, therefore, it is reasonable to consider the current due to the first two terms. The problem then reduces to one analogous to the electron transfer theory [69,70]. The transfer matrix element needed in the expression for the current is... 

The principal effects of the electron-electron interaction can be embodied in a disordered Hubbard model containing three parameters t, the nearest-neighbor electron transfer matrix element assumed constant U, the Coulomb repulsion between electrons of... 

The simple model, called the box model, encloses each dimer within an imaginary box and assigns the transfer matrix elements and Coulumb interactions within and between boxes shown in Fig. 4a. We suppose that we are in the limit that... 

Li, X.Y. and He, E.C., Electron transfer between biphenyl and biphenyl anion radicals Reorganization energies and electron transfer matrix elements, J. Comp. Chem., 20, 597, 1999. 

In principle, using the above formalism the current density and the transfer matrix element can be evaluated at any level of the electronic structure calculations. Here we consider the Hartree-Fock calculations. 

For this form of the matrix element to be correct, a specific separation of dynamic time-scales should exist in the system. Namely, as the above expression (11) suggests, the interaction associated with mixing of the i-th pair of orbitals should be much weaker (and therefore slower) than that of other orbitals. Such is the case, for example, in the non-adiabatic proton transfer, where the transfer matrix element has exactly the same form[28] ... 

The structure of the tunneling flow is very important for the rate of tunneling, because it defines the magnitude of the transfer matrix element discussed in the next section. 

The transfer matrix element between donor and acceptor diabatic states could be, in principle, calculated as [15]... 

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