Title:	Charge carrier scattering in polymers : a new neutral coupled soliton channel
Authors:	Ribeiro, Luiz Antonio Monteiro, Fábio Ferreira Cunha, Wiliam Ferreira da Silva, Geraldo Magela e
Assunto::	Polímeros
Issue Date:	2018
Publisher:	Springer Nature
Citation:	RIBEIRO, Luiz Antonio et. al. Charge carrier scattering in polymers: a new neutral coupled soliton channel. Scientific Reports, v. 8, Art. n. 6595, 2018. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-24948-1. Disponível em: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-24948-1.
Abstract:	The dynamical scattering of two oppositely charged bipolarons in non-degenerate organic semiconducting lattices is numerically investigated in the framework of a one-dimensional tight-biding–Hubbard model that includes lattice relaxation. Our findings show that it is possible for the bipolaron pair to merge into a state composed of a confined soliton-antisoliton pair, which is characterized by the appearance of states within less than 0.1 eV from the Fermi level. This compound is in a narrow analogy to a meson confining a quark-antiquark pair. Interestingly, solitons are quasi-particles theoretically predicted to arise only in polymer lattices with degenerate ground state: in the general case of non-degenerate ground state polymers, isolated solitons are not allowed.
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DOI:	https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-24948-1
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