%0 Journal Article
%T Spin-Peierls vs. Peierls distortions in a family of conjugated Polymers
%A M. A. Garcia-Bach
%A R. Valenti
%A D. J. Klein
%J Physics
%D 1997
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.1751
%X Distortions in a family of conjugated polymers are studied within two complementary approaches, i.e. within a many-body Valence Bond (VB) approach using a transfer matrix technique to treat the Heisenberg model of the systems, and also in terms of the tight-binding band-theoretic model with interactions limited to nearest neighbors. The computations indicate that both methods predict the presence or absence of the same distortions in most of the polymers studied.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9705121v1