title: Hückel-Hubbard-Ohno modeling of π-bonds in ethene and ethyne with application to trans-polyacetylene.
abstract: Quantum chemistry calculations provide the potential energy between two carbon atoms in ethane (H3C-CH3), ethene (H2C[double bond, length as m-dash]CH2), and ethyne (HC[triple bond, length as m-dash]CH) as a function of the atomic distance. Based on the energy function for the σ-bond in ethane, Vσ(r), we use the Hückel model with Hubbard-Ohno interaction for the π electrons to describe the energies Vσπ(r) and Vσππ(r) for the σπ double bond in ethene and the σππ triple bond in ethyne, respectively. The fit of the force functions shows that the electron transfer matrix element and the Peierls coupling can be estimated with some precision whereas the Hubbard-Ohno parameters are insignificant at the distances under consideration. We apply the Hückel-Hubbard-Ohno model to describe the bond lengths and the energies of elementary electronic excitations of trans-polyacetylene, (CH)n, whereby we adjust the σ-bond potential for conjugated polymers.
authors.affiliation: Strongly Correlated Systems Lendület Research Group, Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, MTA Wigner Research Centre for Physics, P. O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary. legeza.ors@wigner.mta.hu.
authors.forename: Máté
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Timár
authors.forename: Gergely
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Barcza
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gebhard
authors.forename: Libor
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Veis
authors.forename: Örs
authors.initials: Ö
authors.lastname: Legeza