Synthetic Metals
Volume 141, Issues 1-2 , 18 March 2004, Pages 179-183

Michael J. Rice Memorial Festschrift


Multiple Fano effect in charge density wave systems

B. Horovitz a, R. Österbackab and Z. V. Vardenyc

a Department of Physics and Ilze Katz center for nanotechnology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
b Department of Physics, Åbo Akademi University, Porthansgatan 3, FIN-20500, Turku, Finland
c Department of Physics, University of Utah, 114 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0830, USA

Received 8 August 2003;  accepted 1 September 2003.  Available online 16 January 2004.


Abstract

A general framework for analyzing the multiple Fano effect (MFE) in charge density wave (CDW) systems is developed. The MFE occurs when IR active modes have frequencies above the CDW gap and interference between the IR modes and the electronic continuum leads to a series of resonances and anti-resonances. We parameterize the peaks and dips of the absorption by a set of bare frequencies, a pinning parameter and one interaction parameter. We apply this method to recently observed photoinduced absorption spectra of small pi, Greek-conjugated polymer films.

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