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EPL
Volume 111, Number 1, July 2015
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| Article Number | 17009 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/111/17009 | |
| Published online | 30 July 2015 | |
Temperature dependence of polaron stability in conjugated polymers
College of Physics, and Hebei Advanced Thin Films Laboratory, Hebei Normal University - Shijiazhuang 050024, China
(a) xjliu@mail.hebtu.edu.cn
(b) zan@hebtu.edu.cn
Received: 19 May 2015
Accepted: 7 July 2015
Within a tight-binding electron-phonon interaction model modified to include thermal effects, the theoretical temperature dependence of polaron stability in conjugated polymers is investigated using a nonadiabatic evolution method. It was found that temperature effects lead to polaron states becoming delocalized, while many weakly localized polaron states are generated. It is worth noting that after thermal equilibrium of the system has been reached, energy transfer between the lattice and the electrons still slowly takes place through two different physical processes corresponding to lower and higher temperatures.
PACS: 71.38.-k – Polarons and electron-phonon interactions / 71.15.Pd – Molecular dynamics calculations (Car-Parrinello) and other numerical simulations / 72.80.Le – Polymers; organic compounds (including organic semiconductors)
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