On the dynamics of a polaron in a classical chain with finite temperature

In today's literature, polaron states in classical molecular chains are mostly calculated at zero temperature. It is assumed that the properties of these states change little if the temperature is different from zero but is much less than the characteristic energy equal to the depth of the polaron level. By numerical experiments, we demonstrate that the temperature decay of a polaron depends on the chain length. The longer the chain, the lower the critical temperature above which the charge is in a delocalized state, and, conversely, the shorter the chain, the higher the decay temperature of a polaron. The results of numerical experiments lead to a conclusion that, in an indefinitely long chain, polaron states decay at temperatures differing arbitrarily little from zero