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Dynamics of breathers and kink-antikink collisions in trans-polyacetylene studied by an all-valence electron tight-binding Hamiltonian

✍ Scribed by Marcus Elstner; Giulia Galli; Sándor Suhai


Book ID
104297383
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
381 KB
Volume
113
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-2789

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✦ Synopsis


We present a study of the dynamics of rruns-polyacetylene chains using an O(N)-scaling all-valence electron tight-binding Hamiltonian. The O(N)-scheme based on a set of non-orthogonal localized orbitals turns out to be capable of efficiently describing fine details in the dynamics of such large molecular systems. In this work we focus on nonlinear vibrational excitations as well as on their interactions.