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arXiv:cond-mat/0411651 · Physical Review B

Effects of electron-phonon coupling range on the polaron formation

C. A. Perroni, V. Cataudella, G. De Filippis, Vincenzo Marigliano Ramaglia

Published Feb 4, 2005• 13 citations
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Abstract

The polaron features due to electron-phonon interactions with different coupling ranges are investigated by adopting a variational approach. The ground-state energy, the spectral weight, the average kinetic energy, the mean number of phonons, and the electron-lattice correlation function are discussed for the system with coupling to local and nearest-neighbor lattice displacements comparing the results with the long-range case. For large values of the coupling with nearest-neighbor sites, most physical quantities show a strong resemblance with those obtained for the long-range electron-phonon interaction. Moreover, for intermediate values of interaction strength, the correlation function between electron and nearest-neighbor lattice displacements is characterized by an upturn as function of the electron-phonon coupling constant.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.71.054301

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