Probing Spin-Charge Relation by Magnetoconductance in One-Dimensional Polymer Nanofibers

TL;DR

This study investigates magnetoconductance in one-dimensional polymer nanofibers, revealing differences in spin-charge interactions among polyacetylene, polyaniline, and polythiophene, and providing insights into electron-electron interactions in these systems.

Contribution

It demonstrates how magnetoconductance varies across different polymer nanofibers, offering new understanding of spin-charge relations and Coulomb interactions in one-dimensional organic systems.

Findings

Zero MC in polyacetylene nanofibers

Finite MC in polyaniline and polythiophene nanofibers

Evidence of Coulomb interactions between spinless charged solitons

Abstract

Polymer nanofibers are one-dimensional organic hydrocarbon systems containing conducting polymers where the non-linear local excitations such as solitons, polarons and bipolarons formed by the electron-phonon interaction were predicted. Magnetoconductance (MC) can simultaneously probe both the spin and charge of these mobile species and identify the effects of electron-electron interactions on these nonlinear excitations. Here we report our observations of a qualitatively different MC in polyacetylene (PA) and in polyaniline (PANI) and polythiophene (PT) nanofibers. In PA the MC is essentially zero, but it is present in PANI and PT. The universal scaling behavior and the zero (finite) MC in PA (PANI and PT) nanofibers provide evidence of Coulomb interactions between spinless charged solitons (interacting polarons which carry both spin and charge).