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Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

A squeezed state approach for the large polarons

T. Altanhan, Bekir Sıtkı Kandemir

Published Sep 6, 1993• 34 citations
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Abstract

The ground state energy of large polarons is investigated by means of squeezed states. First the authors introduced single-mode squeezed states and used the variational method to calculate this energy. This gives a result that is valid in the weak-coupling regime and only for very small values of the coupling constant. In order to improve the result they have considered two-mode squeezed states in which the correlation between phonons is involved. In this way the ground state energy is found to be lower than the Feynman result in the intermediate-coupling regime for alpha < 3.7.

DOI
10.1088/0953-8984/5/36/027

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The ground state energy of large polarons is investigated by means of squeezed states. First the authors introduced single-mode squeezed states and used the variational method to calculate this energy. This gives a result that is valid in the weak-coupling regime and only for very small values of the coupling constant. In order to improve the result they have considered two-mode squeezed states in which the correlation between phonons is involved. In this way the ground state energy is found to be lower than the Feynman result in the intermediate-coupling regime for alpha < 3.7.
In this paper we have applied the correlated squeezed-state approach to investigate the ground-state properties of the one-dimensional Hubbard model with a local Holstein-type electron-phonon interaction. We have introduced a variational ground state in which the phonon subsystem is in a correlated squeezed state. The correlated squeezed state has built in the correlation between different phonon modes induced by the linear coupling with the electrons. With optimal values of the variational parameters the correlated squeezed state will by construction yield an energy lower than those obtained in earlier treatments. This means that our variational ansatz is more stable as the ground state of the system. Furthermore, our variational study shows that in the correlated squeezed state the polaronic 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.
Using a variational ansatz in which pair correlations between wave vectors of virtually emitted phonons are taken into account, we have obtained better upper bounds to the polaron ground-state energy than have been available heretofore for $\ensuremath{\alpha}\ensuremath{\le}3.5$. The same variational trial functions are also used to obtain lower bounds for $\ensuremath{\alpha}\ensuremath{\le}2.5$. These lower bounds, although not completely rigorous, represent a considerable improvement over the Lieb-Yamazaki values, which are, to the author's knowledge, the only other lower bounds in the literature. The variational ansatz chosen is also suitable for practical calculations of the polaron effective mass.
A refined approach where the wave function is gradually improved is developed in the one-dimensional (1D) large-Frohlich-polaron problem. The results for the ground-state energy, the effective mass, and the average number of virtual phonons are obtained for a wide range of the coupling constant It, and are in agreement with those of the Feynman path-integral formalism. In addition, in the weak-coupling limit, the expansions of these observables in powers of the coupling constant are exactly calculated up to the alpha 3 -term. They are E=- alpha -0.06066 alpha 2 -0.00844 alpha 3 , m*=1+0.5 alpha +0.19194 alpha 2 +0.06912 alpha 3 , and N=0.5 alpha +0.12132 alpha 2 +0.029540 alpha 3 , which agree with the known results of the fourth-order perturbation theory.
The polaron path integral introduced by Feynman is generalized to the case of an electron moving in d space dimensions. A scheme of systematic calculations of the obtained path integral is developed to estimate the ground-state energy of the polaron in the same way for different values of the electron-phonon coupling constant \ensuremath{\alpha}. The leading-order term in this approach yields an upper bound to the polaron self-energy and improves Feynman's variational estimates for d=2 and d=3. A scaling relation between polaron self-energies for different space dimensions is obtained for this term. The next correction to this estimation is calculated by numerical integration for d=2 and d=3.
The properties of two- and three-dimensional polarons are investigated with the use of extended coherent states. In the weak-coupling limit, the obtained expansions for the ground-state energy and effective mass to the second order in the coupling constant \ensuremath{\alpha} are the same as the previous exact ones. Moreover, in the intermediate-coupling regime, the numerical results for the ground-state energy and effective mass agree with the results by the Feynman path-integral method, and perhaps closer to the exact results than the Feynman ones. It is suggested that the present approach should be an effective one in polaron physics. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.