Spontaneous symmetry breaking by double lithium adsorption in polyacenes

Autor: Ortiz, Yenni P., Seligman, Thomas H.
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: AIP Proceedings, vol 1323, pp 257-264, 2010
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1063/1.3537854
Popis: We show that adsorption of one lithium atom to a polyacenes, i.e. chains of linearly fused benzene rings, will cause this chain to be slightly deformed. If we adsorb a second identical atom on the opposite side of the same ring, this deformation is dramatically enhanced despite of the fact, that a symmetric configuration seems possible. We argue, that this may be due to an instability of the Jahn-Teller type possibly indeed to a Peierls instability.
Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures
Databáze: arXiv