Condensed Matter Physics, 2021, vol. 24, No. 2, 23704
DOI:10.5488/CMP.24.23704           arXiv:2106.13611

Title: One-particle spectral densities and phase diagrams of one-dimensional proton conductors
Author(s):
  R. Ya. Stetsiv (Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1 Svientsitskii St., 79011 Lviv, Ukraine)

The equilibrium states of one-dimensional proton conductors in the systems with hydrogen bonds are investigated. Our extended hard-core boson lattice model includes short-range interactions between hydrogen ions, their transfer along the hydrogen bonds with two-minima local anharmonic potential, as well as their inter-bond hopping, and the modulating field is taken into account. The exact diagonalization method for finite one-dimensional system with periodic boundary conditions is used. The existence of various phases of the system at T = 0, depending on the values of short-range interactions between particles and the modulating field strength, is established by analyzing the character of the obtained frequency dependence of one-particle spectral density; the phase diagrams are built.

Key words: proton conductor, hard-core boson model, spectral density, phase diagrams


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