Electron transfer and spin–orbit coupling: Can nuclear motion lead to spin selective rates?-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Electron transfer and spin–orbit coupling: Can nuclear motion lead to spin selective rates?

Published:2022-05-05 Issue:17 Volume:156 Page:
ISSN:0021-9606
Container-title:The Journal of Chemical Physics
language:en
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Author:

Chandran Suraj S.¹^ORCID,Wu Yanze¹^ORCID,Teh Hung-Hsuan¹^ORCID,Waldeck David H.²^ORCID,Subotnik Joseph E.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania 1 , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA

2. Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh 2 , Pennsylvania 15260, USA

Abstract

We investigate a spin-boson inspired model of electron transfer, where the diabatic coupling is given by a position-dependent phase, eiWx. We consider both equilibrium and nonequilibrium initial conditions. We show that, for this model, all equilibrium results are completely invariant to the sign of W (to infinite order). However, the nonequilibrium results do depend on the sign of W, suggesting that photo-induced electron transfer dynamics with spin–orbit coupling can exhibit electronic spin polarization (at least for some time).

Funder

National Science Foundation

Publisher

AIP Publishing

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy

Link

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article-pdf/doi/10.1063/5.0086554/16542378/174113_1_online.pdf

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