BINDING, STABILITY, AND NON-BINDING OF MULTI-POLARON SYSTEMS
Rupert L. Frank, Élliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer +1 more
The binding of polarons, or its absence, is an old and subtle topic. After defining the model we state some recent theorems of ours. First, the transition from many-body collapse to the existence of a thermodynamic limit for N polarons occurs precisely at U=2α, where U is the electronic Coulomb repulsion and αis the polaron coupling constant. Second, if U is large enough, there is no multi-polaron binding of any kind. We also discuss the Pekar-Tomasevich approximation to the ground state energy, which is valid for large α. Finally, we derive exact results, not reported before, about the one-dimensional toy model introduced by E. P. Gross.
arXiv:1010.0737•Mathematical Results in Quantum Mechanics (QMath)•May 1, 2011•5 citations