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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Correlated squeezed-state approach for the ground state of a system with strong electron-phonon interaction

Chi‐Fai Lo, Efstratios Manousakis, Roger Sollie, Y. L. Wang

Published Jul 1, 1994• 16 citations
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Abstract

We have investigated the ground state of an electron-phonon system with strong electron-phonon interaction and a weak on-site Coulomb repulsion using the correlated squeezed-state approach. We have introduced a variational ground state in which the phonon subsystem is in a correlated squeezed state and the electron subsystem is in a superconducting pairing state. In addition to the anharmonicity of each phonon mode induced by the linear coupling with the electrons, the correlated squeezed state is able to take into account the nonlinearity of the induced interaction between different phonon modes beyond the Hartree approximation. Also, with optimal values of the variational parameters this trial state will by construction yield an energy lower than those obtained in previous studies, and thus our variational ansatz is a more stable ground state for this system. Furthermore, in this approximate ground state the reduction effect of phonons is much more alleviated, and thus the mass enhancement inherent to the polaron effect is considerably weakened. This weakening of the reduction effect should, in turn, affect other physical properties of the system; for instance, it does suggest the possibility of higher critical temperatures for superconductivity in the strong-coupling limit where the superfluidlike bipolaronic superconductivity is supposed to occur.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.50.418

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The influences of the squeezing–antisqueezing effect arising from variations of the electron density and motion of polarons and nonadiabatic phonon fluctuations on the properties of the ground state and the binding energy of the polaron in the Holstein model of coupled one-dimensional electron–phonon systems with spin 1/2 in the cases of high and low electron densities have been studied by using the Bogolyubov transformation and a new ansatz for states that includes correlation effects among the one-phonon coherent and two-phonon squeezed and polaronic states. The results obtained show that the squeezing–antisqueezing (correlation) effect results in that the ground state energy of the systems is significantly lowered, and the binding energy of the polaron is considerably increased. Thus, the stability of the systems and of the polaron are obviously enhanced in such a case when compared with the uncorrelated case. This shows that the ground state determined by the new state ansatz is most stable, and the new ansatz introduced here is very relevant for the coupled electron–phonon systems, especially in strongly coupled and largely squeezed cases.
Effects of the nonadiabatic phonon fluctuations on the ground state of coupled one-dimensional electron-phonon systems with high and low electron-densities were investigated by a new ansatz including correlated interaction of the displacement and squeezing. The correlated effect resulted in noticeable reduction of ground state energy of the systems, and obvious increases of binding energy of the polarons occurred. Thus, the stabilities of the polaron and of the systems were significantly enhanced, exactly steady ground state of the Holstein model, then, was obtained by the new ansatz for the coupled electron-phonon systems. In general, the new ansatz were found to be very relevant for the strong coupling and large squeezing cases in nonadiabatically coupled electron-photon systems.
We have investigated the ground-state properties of a model system with a strong electron-phonon interaction. It is found that as long as the renormalized intersite electron correlation is attractive, a new type of Cooper pairing will occur whether the renormalized on-site electron correlation is repulsive or attractive. Furthermore, we have shown that a new phonon coherent state, named a two-phonon coherent state, must be introduced to serve as the ground state of the phonon subsystem, so that the ground-state energy of the interacting system can be made a stable minimum and an appropriate condensation energy of the superconducting ground state may be obtained. We have performed numerical calculations for the n=1 case.
Changes in the physical properties such as the ground state properties, charge density wave ordering, binding energy and energy bandwidth of polaron and quantum fluctuation, and minimum uncertainty relation of phonons and nonadiabatically coupled electron–phonon systems with spin-1/2 have been investigated by our new state ansatz which can account for correlation among the phononic displacement, squeezing and polaron effects using variational method in one-dimensional Holstein model. The investigation here shows that the squeezing–antisqueezing effect (correlated) results in a decrease of the ground state energy, an increase of the binding energy of polarons, the reduction of the uncertainty and quantum fluctuation of the phonons, a decrease of polaron narrowing of electron bandwidth, an increase of tunneling effect of the polarons and an increase of CDW ordering and phonon staggered ordering when compared with the uncorrelated case. Therefore, this shows that the ground state determined by the new state ansatz is the most stable. The new ansatz which include the squeezing–antisqueezing (correlated) effect is very relevant for the coupled electron–phonon systems, especially in strongly coupled and highly squeezed cases.
Using the variational Monte Carlo method, we find that a relatively weak long-range electron-phonon interaction induces a ddd-wave superconducting state in doped Mott-Hubbard insulators and/or strongly correlated metals with a condensation energy significantly larger than can be obtained with Coulomb repulsion only. Moreover, the superconductivity is shown to exist for infinite on-site Coulomb repulsion without the need for additional mechanisms such as spin fluctuations to mediate ddd-wave superconductivity. We argue that our superconducting state is robust with respect to a more intricate choice of the trial-wave function and that a possible origin of high-temperature superconductivity lies in a proper combination of strong electron-electron correlations with poorly screened Fr\"ohlich electron-phonon interaction.