Valence-bond treatment of distortions in polyacene polymers. Academic Article

abstract

• Distortions of polyacene polymers are studied within a many-body valence-bond framework using a powerful transfer-matrix technique for the valence-bond (or Heisenberg) model of the system. The computations suggest that the ground-state geometry is either totally symmetric or possibly exhibits a slight (A2 or B2 symmetry) bond-alternation distortion. The lowest-energy (nonsymmetric, in-plane) distortions are the A2 and B2 modes, which, within our approximations, are degenerate. 1992 The American Physical Society.

authors

• Klein, Douglas

published proceedings

• Phys Rev B Condens Matter

author list (cited authors)

• Garcia-Bach, M. A., Pearanda, A., & Klein, D. J.

citation count

• 24

publication date

• May 1992

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/physrevb.45.10891

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/180970

start page

• 10891

end page

• 10901

volume

• 45

issue

• 19

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.45.10891