We summarize recent work showing how the Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz may be used to study the finite-density first-order phase transition in the Gross-Neveu model. The application to trans-polyacetylene is discussed, and the significance of the results is addressed. In this contribution, rather than simply repeat what is contained in the literature, we should like to attempt to place this work i...

The formation energy of a soliton was derived in the TLM model to be 2∆ 0 /π which is independent of the masses of the polymer atoms. We estimate effects of the electron-phonon coupling on the soliton formation energy, particularly, through modifications of the harmonic oscillations of (CH) groups. A model based on the amplitude mode formalism is used and the electron-phonon coupling is taken i...

A material which is an insulator entirely because of interaction effects is called a correlated insulator. Examples are trans-polyacetylene and the cuprate high temperature superconductors. Whereas doping of a band insulator results in a shift of the chemical potential into the conduction or valence band, doping of a correlated insulator produces fundamental changes in the electronic density of...

Samples of Naarmann polyacetylene, denoted as N-(CH)x, (unstretched) and polyacetylene doped with Pd have been investigated, being characterized by: (i) conductivity using the four-point method, (ii) bulk concentration of Pd using the atomic absorption method, (iii) bulk density using helium pycnometry, (iv) surface composition by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and (v) electron transport para...

Two polyacetylene glycosides, gymnasterkoreasides A and B, were isolated from the roots of Gymnaster koraiensis. Their structures were elucidated to be (3R)-8-decene-4,6-diyne-1,3-diol 1-O-beta-D-glucopyraside and (3R)-8-decene-4,6-diyne-1,3-diol 1-O-beta-D-apiofuranosyl-(1-->6)-beta-D-glucopyraside on the basis of spectroscopic analysis including COSY, HMQC, and HMBC experiments, as well as ch...