THERMAL-INSTABILITY OF THE TRANS-POLYACETYLENE POLARON

被引:5
作者
JACOBS, AE [1 ]
MACREADY, WG [1 ]
SZETO, KY [1 ]
MAKI, K [1 ]
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[1] UNIV SO CALIF,DEPT PHYS,LOS ANGELES,CA 90089
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1990年 / 41卷 / 06期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.41.3647
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T [工业技术];
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The trans-polyacetylene polaron decays to a kink-antikink pair (because of the greater entropy of the latter state) at a temperature which vanishes as the length L of the chain goes to infinity, approximately as 1/lnL. For a typical length of L102103 A, the corresponding temperature is 103102 K. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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页码:3647 / 3650
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