Hidden duality and accidental degeneracy in cycloacene and Möbius cycloacene

The accidental degeneracy appearing in cycloacenes as triplets and quadruplets is explained with the concept of segmentation, introduced here with the aim of describing the effective disconnection of π orbitals on these organic compounds. For periodic systems with time reversal symmetry, the emergen...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of mathematical physics 2021-05, Vol.62 (5), Article 052102
Hauptverfasser: Sadurní, Emerson, Leyvraz, Francois, Stegmann, Thomas, Seligman, Thomas H., Klein, Douglas J.
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Zusammenfassung:The accidental degeneracy appearing in cycloacenes as triplets and quadruplets is explained with the concept of segmentation, introduced here with the aim of describing the effective disconnection of π orbitals on these organic compounds. For periodic systems with time reversal symmetry, the emergent nodal domains are shown to divide the atomic chains into simpler carbon structures analog to benzene rings, diallyl chains, anthracene (triacene) chains, and tetramethyl-naphthalene skeletal forms. The common electronic levels of these segments are identified as members of degenerate multiplets of the global system. The peculiar degeneracy of Möbius cycloacene is also explained by segmentation. In the last part, it is shown that the multiplicity of energies for cycloacene can be foreseen by studying the continuous limit of the tight-binding model; the degeneracy conditions are put in terms of Chebyshev polynomials. The results obtained in this work have important consequences on the physics of electronic transport in organic wires, together with their artificial realizations.
ISSN:0022-2488
1089-7658
DOI:10.1063/5.0031586