Department of Physics Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
10-12-2012
Abstract
Polymer nanofibers are one-dimensional organic hydrocarbon systems containing conducting polymers where the nonlinear local excitations such as solitons, polarons, and bipolarons formed by the electron-phonon interaction were predicted. Magnetoconductance (MC) can simultaneously probe both the spin and charge of these mobile species and identify the effects of electron-electron interactions on these nonlinear excitations. Here, we report our observations of a qualitatively differentMC in polyacetylene (PA) and in polyaniline (PANI) and polythiophene (PT) nanofibers. In PA, the MC is essentially zero, but it is present in PANI and PT. The universal scaling behavior and the zero (finite)MC in PA (PANI and PT) nanofibers provide evidence of Coulomb interactions between spinless charged solitons (interacting polarons which carry both spin and charge).
Recommended Citation
Choi, A., Kim, K. H., Hong, S. J., Goh, M., Akagi, K., Kaner, R. B., Kirova, N. N., Brazovskii, S. A., Johnson, A., Bonnell, D. A., Mele, E. J., & Park, Y. W. (2012). Probing Spin-charge Relation by Magnetoconductance in One-dimensional Polymer Nanofibers. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/physics_papers/265
Date Posted: 31 January 2013
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
Choi, A., Kim, K. H., Hong, S. J., Goh, M., Akagi, K., Kaner, R. B.,...Park, Y. W. (2012). Probing Spin-charge Relation by Magnetoconductance in One-dimensional Polymer Nanofibers. Physical Review B, 86(15), 155423. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.155423
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