Charge migration is the electronic response that immediately follows localized ionization or excitation in a molecule, before nuclei have time to move. It typically unfolds on sub-femtosecond scales and most often corresponds dynamics far from equilibrium, involving multi-electron interactions complex chemical environment. While charge has been documented experimentally theoretically multiple o...

Destructive quantum interference has been shown to strongly reduce charge tunneling rates across molecular bridges. The current consensus is that destructive quantum interference occurs in cross-conjugated molecules, while linearly conjugated molecules exhibit constructive interference. Our experimental results on photoinduced charge transfer in donor-bridge-acceptor systems, however, show that...

We report on a class of molecules that exhibit nonlinear current/voltage behavior in the low bias tunneling regime. This interesting behavior is attributed to quantum interference. Using site models, we show that interference features, while common, do not necessarily occur at experimentally relevant energies, hindering realization in transport measurements. Calculations made using a nonequilib...

A computational method was devised to explore the relationship of charge separation, geometry, molecular dipole moment (mu), polarizability (alpha), and hyperpolariz-abilities (beta, gamma) in conjugated organic molecules. We show that bond-length alternation (the average difference in length between single and double bonds in the molecule) is a key structurally observable parameter that can be...