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Haibo Ma1, Chungen Liu, Yuansheng Jiang
1Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
Abstract:
We have carried out density matrix renormalization group calculations on the T1 state of linear polyenes applying the Pariser-Parr-Pople (PPP) Model. The geometry optimization for the polyene oligomers C(2n)H(2n+2) (n = 4,5,6,...,15) shows that the S0 to T1 excitation region is composed of a soliton-antisoliton pair located symmetrically away from the center of the chain and leads to single- and double-bond interconversions in between. The distance between the soliton and antisoliton centers in T1 state changes with the length of the chain, contradictory to earlier conclusions obtained with PPP-SDCI or ab initio SCI methods. The inconsistency most possibly comes from the insufficient consideration of the electron correlations in small-scale CI methods.
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