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Solitons in polyacetylene: Optical absorption in lightly doped polyacetylene

Kazumi MakiDepartment of Physics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90007Mikio NakaharaDepartment of Physics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90007
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Optical-absorption spectra of lightly doped trans-polyacetylene are studied theoretically within the Su, Schrieffer, and Heeger model and within the dilute-gas approximation for solitons. The present theory describes semiquantitatively the experimental results by Suzuki et al.

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