Electronic and Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers

1 Introduction to conjugated polymers; 2 Π-electron theories of conjugated polymers; 3 Noninteracting electrons; 4 Electron-nuclear coupling I: Noninteracting electrons; 5 Interacting electrons; 6 Excitons in conjugated polymers; 7 Electron-nuclear coupling II: Interacting electrons; 8 Linear polyenes and trans-polyacetylene; 9 Light emitting polymers; 10 Exciton localization in disordered polymers; 11 Optical processes in conjugated polymers; 12 Excitonic processes in conjugated polymers; 13 Epilogue; Appendix A: Dirac bra-ket operator representation of one-particle Hamiltonians; Appendix B: Electron-hole symmetry and average occupation number; Appendix C: Single-particle eigensolutions of a periodic polymer chain; Appendix D: The Holstein model; Appendix E: Derivation of the effective-particle Schrodinger equation; Appendix F: Hydrogenic solutions of the effective-particle exciton models; Appendix G: Valence-bond description of benzene; Appendix H: Derivation of the Frenkel exciton Hamiltonian; Appendix I: Evaluation of the electronic transition dipole moments; Appendix J: Spin-orbit coupling in Π-conjugated polymers; Appendix K: Derivation of the line dipole approximation; Appendix L: Direct configuration interaction-singles calculations; Appendix M: Density matrix renormalization group method

William Barford, University Lecturer in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow in Physical Chemistry at Balliol College