Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2004-10-26
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Submitted to Physical Review B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.71.115107
We investigate the relaxation energies and excited state geometries of the light emitting polymer, poly(para-phenylene). We solve the Pariser-Parr-Pople-Peierls model using the density matrix renormalization group method. We find that the lattice relaxation of the dipole-active $1^1B_{1u}^-$ state is quite different from that of the $1^3B_{1u}^+$ state and the dipole-inactive $2^1A_g^+$ state. In particular, the $1^1B_{1u}^-$ state is rather weakly coupled to the lattice and has a rather small relaxation energy ca. 0.1 eV. In contrast, the $1^3B_{1u}^+$ and $2^1A_g^+$ states are strongly coupled with relaxation energies of ca. 0.5 and ca. 1.0 eV, respectively. By analogy to linear polyenes, we argue that this difference can be understood by the different kind of solitons present in the $1^1B_{1u}^-$, $1^3B_{1u}^+$ and $2^1A_g^+$ states. The difference in relaxation energies of the $1^1B_{1u}^-$ and $1^3B_{1u}^+$ states accounts for approximately one-third of the exchange gap in light-emitting polymers.
Barford William
Bursill Robert J.
Moore Eric E.
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