Breathers in polyacetylene and their optical absorption

S. R. Phillpot; B. Horovitz; A. R. Bishop

doi:10.1016/0379-6779(89)90724-8

Breathers in polyacetylene and their optical absorption

S. R. Phillpot, B. Horovitz, A. R. Bishop

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A semiclassical formalism for the optical absorption in a coupled electron-phonon system is derived and applied to breather modes in trans-polyacetylene. We show that such breathers can account for both the photoinduced absorption peak observed at 1.35eV and the groundstate intragap absorption tail.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	D419-D425
Journal	Synthetic Metals
Volume	28
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0379-6779(89)90724-8
State	Published - 20 Feb 1989
Externally published	Yes

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering
Metals and Alloys
Materials Chemistry

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