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  • Computational Chemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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  • Polarization effects are critical in one-dimensional (1D) systems, particularly in organic semiconductors during charge migration.
  • Accurate computation of these effects is challenging due to the infinite nature of 1D systems and the complexity of electron loss/attachment events.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an efficient computational approach for treating polarization effects in 1D environments.
  • To enable accurate calculations of response to electron loss or attachment in 1D molecular systems.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized frozen-density embedding (FDE) to manage polarization in a 1D molecular chain.
  • Introduced a novel scheme to compute local perturbations without infinite repetition.
  • Employed a first-order equation-of-motion ansatz to efficiently calculate polarization effects, avoiding open-shell calculations.
  • Implemented freeze-thaw iterations for wavefunction relaxation in localized subsystems.

Main Results:

  • Successfully computed polarization effects in charged tetraazaperopyrenes within 1D chains.
  • Demonstrated the efficiency of the proposed FDE-based scheme.
  • Avoided the need for infinite system repetition and computationally expensive open-shell calculations.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method provides an efficient and accurate way to study polarization in 1D systems.
  • The approach is suitable for modeling charge migration phenomena in organic semiconductors.
  • The method generates valuable wavefunction-based reference data for electronic couplings in complex 1D environments.