Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
Optical Response of Polarons and Solitons in One-Dimensional Peierls–Hubbard Model
Nobuya Maeshima, Kosuke Moriya, Ken-ichi Hino
Abstract
We investigate optical properties of polarons and solitons in one-dimensional (1D) Peierls–Hubbard model by using the density matrix renormalization group method combined with the adiabatic approximation for lattice distortion. Obtained numerical results demonstrate that there appear novel midgap peaks in optical response spectra of polarons and charged-solitons for large on-site Coulomb interaction U . The origins of these novel peaks are understood in terms of charge-transfer excitations within clusters for each states: a dimer in polarons and a pentamer in charged-solitons, both of which are located around the center of the relaxed lattice distortion.