Spontaneous symmetry breaking by double lithium adsorption in polyacenes
Autor: | Ortiz, Yenni P., Seligman, Thomas H. |
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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 |
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