Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 January 2025
Chapter 4 aims at establishing that the fractional charge calculated in Chapter 3 is sharp. To this end, the calculation of the mean value and second cumulant of the electronic charge localized in one of two wells of a double-well potential in quantum mechanics is contrasted to that of the mean value and second cumulant of the fractional charge localized around a soliton in a dimerization profile of polyacetylene support a pair of soliton and anti-soliton defects far apart from each other.
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