Motion of Charged Soliton in Polyacetylene Due to Electric Field. II. Behavior of Width

Abstract

By numerical simulations treating the motion of a charged soliton in polyacetylene, we analyze the width of a moving soliton. The motion of the soliton is induced by applying an electric field as in the previous work. The soliton width is estimated by two methods; one is from the excess charge density profile and the other from the distortion in the lattice displacement. Both results indicate that the width decreases as the soliton velocity increases. Quantitatively, however, the amount of decrease is different in the two cases; the maximum change of the width is about 10% in the former case whereas it is 20% in the latter. Furthermore, the width obtained from the lattice distortion is found to oscillate as a function of time, consistently with the excitation of the amplitude mode around a soliton.