arXiv:cond-mat/9908172 · Physical review. B, Condensed matter
Comparison of perturbative expansions using different phonon bases for the two-site Holstein model
Jayita Chatterjee, A. N. Das
Abstract
The two-site single-polaron problem is studied within perturbative expansions using different standard phonon bases obtained through Lang-Firsov (LF), modified LF, and modified LF transformations with squeezed phonon states. The role of these convergent expansions using the above prescriptions in lowering the energy and in determining the correlation functions are compared for different values of the coupling strength. The single-electron energy, oscillator wave functions, and correlation functions are calculated for the same system. The applicability of different phonon bases in different regimes of the coupling strength, as well as in different regimes of hopping, is also discussed.