Correlation between large polarons in molecular chains

We studied few extra electrons in a molecular chain with the account of electron-phonon coupling in the adiabatic approximation. It is shown that the lowest state of two extra electrons in a chain corresponds to the singlet bisoliton state with one deformational potential well. Two electrons with parallel spins form a localised triplet state, which corresponds to the two-hump charge distribution function. Three extra electrons form an almost independent nonlinear superposition of a soliton and bisoliton states. In the case of four electrons, the two almost independent bisolitons are formed. These two states tend to separate in the chain at the maximal distance due to the Fermi repulsion, accounted for in the zero-order adiabatic approximation. This repulsion is partly compensated by the attraction between the solitons due to their exchange with virtual phonons, described by the non-adiabatic part of the Hamiltonian. The formation of solitons is characterised by the appearance of the bound soliton and bisoliton levels in the forbidden energy band. This constitutes the qualitative difference of the large polaron (soliton) states from the almost free electron states and small polaron states.