Spontaneous symmetry breaking by double lithium adsorption in polyacenes

Details Spontaneous symmetry breaking by double lithium adsorption in polyacenes Spontaneous symmetry breaking by double lithium adsorption in polyacenes

2010-10-07

arxiv.org/abs/1010.1492v2

AIP Proceedings, vol 1323, pp 257-264, 2010

Physics

Chemical Physics

8 pages, 9 figures

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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.

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