Fast transport and relaxation of vibrational energy in polymer chains

preprint2014arXivOpen access

Abstract

We investigate ballistic vibrational energy transport through optical phonon band in oligomeric chains in the presence of decoherence. An exact solution is obtained for the excitation density in the space-time representation in the continuous limit and this solution is used to characterize the energy transport time and intensity. Three transport mechanisms are identified such as ballistic, diffusive and directed diffusive regimes, occurring at different distances and time ranges. The crossover between the two diffusive regimes is continuous, while the switch between the ballistic and diffusive mechanisms occurs in discontinuous manner in accord with the recent experimental data on energy transport in perfluoroalkanes.

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