Vanishing conductivity of quantum solitons in polyacetylene

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/42/5/055401MaRDI QIDQ3603173zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Leonardo Mondaini, E. C. Marino, A. A. Schmidt

Publication date 16 February 2009

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3250

zbMATH Keywords

conductivitypolyacetylenequantum solitonsine-Gordon soliton

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

Abstract: Quantum solitons or polarons are supposed to play a crucial role in the electric conductivity of polyacetylene, in the intermediate doping regime. We present an exact fully quantized calculation of the quantum soliton conductivity in polyacetylene and show that it vanishes exactly. This is obtained by applying a general method of soliton quantization, based on order-disorder duality, to a Z(2)-symmetric complex extension of the TLM dimerization effective field theory. We show that, in this theory, polyacetylene solitons are sine-Gordon solitons in the phase of the complex field.

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