Disentangling the components of a multiconfigurational excited state in isolated chromophore
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| author | Ferreira, Rodrigo Cezar de Campos Sagwal, Amandeep Doležal, Jiří Neuman, Tomáš Švec, Martin |
| author_facet | Ferreira, Rodrigo Cezar de Campos Sagwal, Amandeep Doležal, Jiří Neuman, Tomáš Švec, Martin |
| contents | Studying the excited states of doublets is challenging for their typically multiconfigurational character. We employ light-scanning-tunneling microscopy (light-STM) to investigate photon-induced currents on a single open-shell PTCDA anion molecule placed into a plasmonic nanocavity between a tip and a substrate, irradiated by laser. Submolecular mapping reveals a zero-bias bidirectional photocurrent strongly varying with the lateral position of the tip apex above the molecule. We elucidate the mechanism in terms of a theoretical model in which a multiconfigurational doublet state is excited and decays back to the anion ground state through sequential electron transfers with the tip and the substrate. The correspondence of the experimental and theoretical contrast proves the correlated character of the excited state which can be described as a superposition of two dominating electronic configurations. By applying bipolar voltage on the junction with the molecule, we switch the dominant recombination pathway from one of the configurations to the other, effectively disentangling the multiconfigurational state individual components through visualization of their Dyson orbitals, as corroborated by theoretical modelling. |
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| spellingShingle | Disentangling the components of a multiconfigurational excited state in isolated chromophore Ferreira, Rodrigo Cezar de Campos Sagwal, Amandeep Doležal, Jiří Neuman, Tomáš Švec, Martin Atomic and Molecular Clusters Studying the excited states of doublets is challenging for their typically multiconfigurational character. We employ light-scanning-tunneling microscopy (light-STM) to investigate photon-induced currents on a single open-shell PTCDA anion molecule placed into a plasmonic nanocavity between a tip and a substrate, irradiated by laser. Submolecular mapping reveals a zero-bias bidirectional photocurrent strongly varying with the lateral position of the tip apex above the molecule. We elucidate the mechanism in terms of a theoretical model in which a multiconfigurational doublet state is excited and decays back to the anion ground state through sequential electron transfers with the tip and the substrate. The correspondence of the experimental and theoretical contrast proves the correlated character of the excited state which can be described as a superposition of two dominating electronic configurations. By applying bipolar voltage on the junction with the molecule, we switch the dominant recombination pathway from one of the configurations to the other, effectively disentangling the multiconfigurational state individual components through visualization of their Dyson orbitals, as corroborated by theoretical modelling. |
| title | Disentangling the components of a multiconfigurational excited state in isolated chromophore |
| topic | Atomic and Molecular Clusters |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09347 |