Dimerization of polyacetylene treated as a spin-Peierls distortion of the Heisenberg Hamiltonian

Extracting a bond-length-dependent Heisenberg-like Hamiltonian from the potential-energy surfaces of the two lowest states of ethylene, it is possible to study the geometry of polyacetylene by minimization of the cohesive energy, using both variational-cluster and Rayleigh-Schrödinger perturbative e...

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Autores: García Bach, Ma. de los Ángeles, Blaise, P., Malrieu, J. P.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1992
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/9734
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/9734
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Polímers
Elastòmers
Química física
Polymers
Elastomers
Physical chemistry
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Sumario:Extracting a bond-length-dependent Heisenberg-like Hamiltonian from the potential-energy surfaces of the two lowest states of ethylene, it is possible to study the geometry of polyacetylene by minimization of the cohesive energy, using both variational-cluster and Rayleigh-Schrödinger perturbative expansions. The dimerization amplitude is satisfactorily reproduced. Optimizing the variational-cluster-expansion total energy with the equal-bond-length constraint, the barrier to reversal of alternation is obtained. The alternating-to-regular phase transition is treated from the Néel-state starting function and appears to be of second order.