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Quasi-degenerate self-trapping in one-dimensional charge transfer exciton

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-07 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

The self-trapping by the nondiagonal particle-phonon interaction between two quasi-degenerate energy levels of excitonic system, is studied. We propose this is realized in charge transfer exciton, where the directions of the polarization give the quasi-degeneracy. It is shown that this mechanism, unlike the conventional diagonal one, allows a coexistence and resonance of the free and self-trapped states even in one-dimensional systems and a quantitative theory for the optical properties (light absorption and time-resolved luminescence) of the resonating states is presented. This theory gives a consistent resolution for the long-standing puzzles in quasi-one-dimensional compound A-PMDA.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0103551,
  title  = {Quasi-degenerate self-trapping in one-dimensional charge transfer exciton},
  author = {A. S. Mishchenko and N. Nagaosa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0103551},
  year   = {2009}
}

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accepted to Phys. Rev. Letters