Excited States and Optical Properties of Hydrogen-Passivated Rectangular Graphenes: A Computational Study

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In this paper, we perform large-scale electron-correlated calculations of optoelectronic properties of rectangular graphene-like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules. Theoretical methodology employed in this work is based upon Pariser-Parr-Pople (PPP) π-electron model Hamiltonian, which includes long-range electron-electron interactions. Electron-correlation effects were incorporated using multi-reference singles-doubles configurationinteraction (MRSDCI) method, and the ground and excited state wave functions thus obtained were employed to calculate the linear optical absorption spectra of these molecules, within the electric-dipole approximation. As far as the ground state wave functions of these molecules are concerned, we find that with the increasing size, they develop a strong diradical open-shell character. Our results on optical absorption spectra are in very good agreement with the available experimental results, outlining the importance of electron-correlation effects in accurate description of the excited states. In addition to the optical gap, spin gap of each molecule was also computed using the same methodology. Calculated spin gaps exhibit a decreasing trend with the increasing sizes of the molecules, suggesting that the infinite graphene has a vanishing spin gap.

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Rai, D. K., & Shukla, A. (2019). Excited States and Optical Properties of Hydrogen-Passivated Rectangular Graphenes: A Computational Study. Scientific Reports, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44258-4

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