Molecular dynamics simulation of an electric field driven dipolar molecular rotor attached to a quartz glass surface.

Molecular dynamics simulations of the response of a dipolar azimuthal 3-chloroprop-1-ynyl rotor mounted on the surface of quartz glass to a rotating electric field were performed. The rotor motion was classified as synchronous, asynchronous, random, or hindered, based on the value of the average lag of the rotor behind the field and a comparison of the intrinsic rotational barrier V(b) with kT. A phase diagram of rotor behavior was deduced at 10, 300, and 500 K as a function of field strength and frequency. A simple model for the rotor motion was developed, containing the driving force, the temperature, the height of the torsional barrier, and the friction constant of the rotor. Defining E(bo) to be the electric field strength necessary to get rotational response from the rotor ("breakoff field") and mu to be the rotor dipole moment component in the plane of rotation, we find that E(bo) is frequency independent when 2 microE(bo) is less than either V(b) or kT (the driving force needs to overcome the more important of the two, the intrinsic barrier or random thermal motion). At higher frequencies, E(bo) is a quadratic function of the frequency and the driving force fights friction, which is dictated by intramolecular vibrational redistribution (IVR) from the pumped rotational mode to all others. Fitting the simple model to simulation data, we derived a friction constant of 0.26 ps eV x (nu - 0.5)/THz between 500 and 1000 GHz.

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