EXISTENCE AND STABILITY OF POLARONIC CLUSTERS IN DISORDERED CONDUCTING POLYMERS

Authors
BUSSAC MN ZUPPIROLI L
Citation
Mn. Bussac et L. Zuppiroli, EXISTENCE AND STABILITY OF POLARONIC CLUSTERS IN DISORDERED CONDUCTING POLYMERS, Synthetic metals, 69(1-3), 1995, pp. 693-694
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Condensed Matter","Metallurgy & Metallurigical Engineering
Journal title
Synthetic metals → ACNP
ISSN journal
03796779
Volume
69
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
693 - 694
Database
ISI
SICI code
0379-6779(1995)69:1-3<693:EASOPC>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
In a disordered conducting polymer, the presence of dopant counterions is responsible for the existence of collective polaronic states. We p resent a variational calculation of the stability of a polaronic clust er of N carriers sitting on M(c) chains linked by N dopant counterions .