Can Quantum Lattice Fluctuations Destroy the Peierls Broken Symmetry Ground State?
The study of bond alternation in one-dimensional electronic systems has had a long history. Theoretical work in the 1930s predicted the absence of bond alternation in the limit of infinitely long conjugated polymers; a result later contradicted by experimental investigations. When this issue was re-...
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| description | The study of bond alternation in one-dimensional electronic systems has had a long history. Theoretical work in the 1930s predicted the absence of bond alternation in the limit of infinitely long conjugated polymers; a result later contradicted by experimental investigations. When this issue was re-examined in the 1950s it was shown in the adiabatic limit that bond alternation occurs for any value of electron-phonon coupling. The question of whether this conclusion remains valid for quantized nuclear degrees of freedom was first addressed in the 1980s. Since then a series of numerical calculations on models with gapped, dispersionless phonons have suggested that bond alternation is destroyed by quantum fluctuations below a critical value of electron-phonon coupling. In this work we study a more realistic model with gapless, dispersive phonons. By solving this model with the DMRG method we show that bond alternation remains robust for any value of electron-phonon coupling. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:29e90708-203d-4bfb-8b7c-fc1405d49a382022-03-26T12:21:50ZCan Quantum Lattice Fluctuations Destroy the Peierls Broken Symmetry Ground State?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:29e90708-203d-4bfb-8b7c-fc1405d49a38EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2005Barford, WBursill, RThe study of bond alternation in one-dimensional electronic systems has had a long history. Theoretical work in the 1930s predicted the absence of bond alternation in the limit of infinitely long conjugated polymers; a result later contradicted by experimental investigations. When this issue was re-examined in the 1950s it was shown in the adiabatic limit that bond alternation occurs for any value of electron-phonon coupling. The question of whether this conclusion remains valid for quantized nuclear degrees of freedom was first addressed in the 1980s. Since then a series of numerical calculations on models with gapped, dispersionless phonons have suggested that bond alternation is destroyed by quantum fluctuations below a critical value of electron-phonon coupling. In this work we study a more realistic model with gapless, dispersive phonons. By solving this model with the DMRG method we show that bond alternation remains robust for any value of electron-phonon coupling. |
| spellingShingle | Barford, W Bursill, R Can Quantum Lattice Fluctuations Destroy the Peierls Broken Symmetry Ground State? |
| title | Can Quantum Lattice Fluctuations Destroy the Peierls Broken Symmetry
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| title_full | Can Quantum Lattice Fluctuations Destroy the Peierls Broken Symmetry
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| title_fullStr | Can Quantum Lattice Fluctuations Destroy the Peierls Broken Symmetry
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| title_full_unstemmed | Can Quantum Lattice Fluctuations Destroy the Peierls Broken Symmetry
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