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Mediation of Long Range Charge Transfer by Kondo Bound States

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2007-05-23 v3 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

We present a theory of non-equilibrium long range charge transfer between donor and acceptor centers in a model polymer mediated by magnetic exciton (Kondo) bound states. Our model produces electron tunneling lengths easily exceeding 10A˚\AA, as observed recently in DNA and organic charge transfer systems. This long ranged tunneling is effective for weak to intermediate donor-bridge coupling, and is enhanced both by weak to intermediate strength Coulomb hole-electron attraction (through the orthogonality catastrophe) and by coupling to local vibrational modes.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0009018,
  title  = {Mediation of Long Range Charge Transfer by Kondo Bound States},
  author = {R. G. Endres and D. L. Cox and R. R. P. Singh and S. K. Pati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0009018},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Revised content (broadened scope, vibrations added), submitted to Phys Rev Lett, added author