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Excited States of Ladder-type Poly-p-phenylene Oligomers

Condensed Matter 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

Ground state properties and excited states of ladder-type paraphenylene oligomers are calculated applying semiempirical methods for up to eleven phenylene rings. The results are in qualitative agreement with experimental data. A new scheme to interpret the excited states is developed which reveals the excitonic nature of the excited states. The electron-hole pair of the S1-state has a mean distance of approximately 4 Angstroem.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0103320,
  title  = {Excited States of Ladder-type Poly-p-phenylene Oligomers},
  author = {Joerg Rissler and Florian Gebhard and Peter Schwerdtfeger and Heinz Baessler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0103320},
  year   = {2009}
}

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24 pages, 21 figures