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Electron as soliton: Nonlinear theory of dielectric polarization

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-10-03 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We describe a class of theories of dielectric polarization and a species of solitons in these theories. The solitons, made entirely out of the polarization field, have quantized values of the electric charge and can be interpreted as electrons and holes. A soliton-antisoliton pair is an exciton. We present numerical evidence that the elementary soliton is stable.

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@article{arxiv.0710.0414,
  title  = {Electron as soliton: Nonlinear theory of dielectric polarization},
  author = {S. Khlebnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.0414},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures