Abstract
The intrinsic optical nonlinearities of linear structures, including conjugated chain polymers and nanowires, are shown to be dramatically enhanced by the judicious placement of a charge-diverting path sufficiently short to create a large phase disruption in the dominant eigenfunctions along the main path of the probability current. Phase disruption is proposed as a new general principle for the design of molecules, nanowires, and any quasi-1D quantum system with large intrinsic response and does not require charge donor–acceptors at the ends.
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