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arXiv:cond-mat/0412010 · Physical Review B

Photoemission spectra of many-polaron systems

Martin Hohenadler, Danilo R. Neuber, Wolfgang von der Linden, Gerhard Wellein, Jan Loos, Holger Fehske

Published Jun 23, 2005• 48 citations
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Abstract

The crossover from low to high carrier densities in a many-polaron system is studied in the framework of the one-dimensional spinless Holstein model, using unbiased numerical methods. Combining a novel quantum Monte Carlo approach and exact diagonalization, accurate results for the single-particle spectrum and the electronic kinetic energy on fairly large systems are obtained. A detailed investigation of the quality of the Monte Carlo data is presented. In the physically most important adiabatic intermediate electron-phonon coupling regime, for which no analytical results are available, we observe a dissociation of polarons with increasing band filling, leading to normal metallic behavior, while for parameters favoring small polarons, no such density-driven changes occur. The present work points toward the inadequacy of single-polaron theories for a number of polaronic materials such as the manganites.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.71.245111

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The phonon spectral function of the one-dimensional Holstein model is obtained within weak and strong-coupling approximations based on analytical self-energy calculations.The characteristic excitations found in the limit of small charge-carrier density are related to the known (electronic) spectral properties of Holstein polarons such as the polaron band dispersion.Particular emphasis is laid on the different physics occurring in the adiabatic and antiadiabatic regimes, respectively.Comparison is made with a cluster approach exploiting exact numerical results on small systems to yield an approximation for the thermodynamic limit.This method, similar to cluster perturbation theory, confirms the analytical findings, and yields accurate results also in the intermediate-coupling regime.
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A path-integral quantum Monte Carlo method is applied to the two-dimensional single-polaron Holstein model. Simulation data are shown to exhibit -scaling with the number of imaginary-time slices M used in the Trotter decomposition. Numerical extrapolation to yields very accurate estimation of polaron energetic characteristics. Kinetic, potential and total energy are calculated as functions of the electron - phonon coupling strength for different phonon frequencies. The small-polaron regime is found in the strong-coupling limit for all of the frequencies studied. The transition to the polaron state is sharp in the adiabatic regime but broadens as the frequency increases. In the adiabatic limit the polaron forms at .