Electron transfer at electrode interfaces to molecules in solution or at the electrode surface plays a vital role in numerous technological processes. However, treating these processes requires a unified and accurate treatment of the fermionic states of the electrode and their coupling to the molecule being oxidized or reduced in the electrochemical processes and, in turn, the way the molecular energy levels are modulated by the bosonic nuclear modes of the molecule and solvent. Here we present a physically transparent quasiclassical scheme to treat these electrochemical electron transfer processes in the presence of molecular vibrations by using an appropriately chosen mapping of the fermionic variables. We demonstrate that this approach, which is exact in the limit of non-interacting fermions in the absence of coupling to vibrations, is able to accurately capture the electron transfer dynamics from the electrode even when the process is coupled to vibrational motions in the regimes of weak coupling. This approach, thus, provides a scalable strategy to explicitly treat electron transfer from electrode interfaces in condensed-phase molecular systems.
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July 06 2023
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Kenneth A. Jung
;
Kenneth A. Jung
(Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing)
Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Joseph Kelly
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Joseph Kelly
(Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing)
Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Thomas E. Markland
Thomas E. Markland
a)
(Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing)
Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
, Stanford, California 94305, USA
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: [email protected]
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Kenneth A. Jung
Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Joseph Kelly
Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Thomas E. Markland
Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
a)
Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
, Stanford, California 94305, USA
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: [email protected]
J. Chem. Phys. 159, 014109 (2023)
Article history
Received:
April 26 2023
Accepted:
June 12 2023
Citation
Kenneth A. Jung, Joseph Kelly, Thomas E. Markland; Electron transfer at electrode interfaces via a straightforward quasiclassical fermionic mapping approach. J. Chem. Phys. 7 July 2023; 159 (1): 014109. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0156136
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