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    The Electron-Phonon Interaction in the Presence of Strong Correlations

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    We investigate the effect of strong electron-electron repulsion on the electron-phonon interaction from a Fermi-liquid point of view: the strong interaction is responsible for vertex corrections, which are strongly dependent on the vFq/ωv_Fq/\omega ratio. These corrections generically lead to a strong suppression of the effective coupling between quasiparticles mediated by a single phonon exchange in the vFq/ω1v_Fq/\omega \gg 1 limit. However, such effect is not present when vFq/ω1v_Fq/\omega \ll 1. Analyzing the Landau stability criterion, we show that a sizable electron-phonon interaction can push the system towards a phase-separation instability. A detailed analysis is then carried out using a slave-boson approach for the infinite-U three-band Hubbard model. In the presence of a coupling between the local hole density and a dispersionless optical phonon, we explicitly confirm the strong dependence of the hole-phonon coupling on the transferred momentum versus frequency ratio. We also find that the exchange of phonons leads to an unstable phase with negative compressibility already at small values of the bare hole-phonon coupling. Close to the unstable region, we detect Cooper instabilities both in s- and d-wave channels supporting a possible connection between phase separation and superconductivity in strongly correlated systems.Comment: LateX 3.14, 04.11.1994 Preprint no.101

    Polaronic optical absorption in electron-doped and hole-doped cuprates

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    Polaronic features similar to those previously observed in the photoinduced spectra of cuprates have been detected in the reflectivity spectra of chemically doped parent compounds of high-critical-temperature superconductors, both nn-type and pp-type. In Nd2_2CuO4y_{4-y} these features, whose intensities depend both on doping and temperature, include local vibrational modes in the far infrared and a broad band centered at \sim 1000 cm1^{-1}. The latter band is produced by the overtones of two (or three) local modes and is well described in terms of a small-polaron model, with a binding energy of about 500 cm1^{-1}. Most of the above infrared features are shown to survive in the metallic phase of Nd2x_{2-x}Cex_xCu04y_{4-y}, Bi2_2Sr2_2CuO6_6, and YBa2_2Cu3_3O7y_{7-y}, where they appear as extra-Drude peaks. The occurrence of polarons is attributed to local modes strongly coupled to carriers, as shown by a comparison with tunneling results.Comment: File latex, 31 p., submitted to Physical Review B. Figures may be faxed upon reques

    Polaron Formation in the Three-Band Peierls-Hubbard Model for Cuprate Superconductors

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    Exact diagonalization calculations show a continuous transition from delocalized to small polaron behavior as a function of intersite electron-lattice coupling. A transition, found previously at Hartree-Fock level [Yonemitsu et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 69}, 965 (1992)], between a magnetic and a non magnetic state does not subsist when fluctuations are included. Local phonon modes become softer close to the polaron and by comparison with optical measurements of doped cuprates we conclude that they are close to the transition region between polaronic and non-polaronic behavior. The barrier to adiabatically move a hole vanishes in that region suggesting large mobilities.Comment: 7 pages + 3 poscript figures, Revtex 3.0, MSC-199

    A Precision Calculation of the Next-to-Leading Order Energy-Energy Correlation Function

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    The O(alpha_s^2) contribution to the Energy-Energy Correlation function (EEC) of e+e- -> hadrons is calculated to high precision and the results are shown to be larger than previously reported. The consistency with the leading logarithm approximation and the accurate cancellation of infrared singularities exhibited by the new calculation suggest that it is reliable. We offer evidence that the source of the disagreement with previous results lies in the regulation of double singularities.Comment: 6 pages, uuencoded LaTeX and one eps figure appended Complete paper as PostScript file (125 kB) available at: http://www.phys.washington.edu/~clay/eecpaper1/paper.htm

    Infrared response of ordered polarons in layered perovskites

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    We report on the infrared absorption spectra of three oxides where charged superlattices have been recently observed in diffraction experiments. In La1.67_{1.67}Sr0.33_{0.33}NiO4_4, polaron localization is found to suppress the low-energy conductivity through the opening of a gap and to split the E2uE_{2u}-A2uA_{2u} vibrational manifold of the oxygen octahedra. Similar effects are detected in Sr1.5_{1.5}La0.5_{0.5}MnO4_4 and in La2_2NiO4+y_{4+y}, with peculiar differences related to the type of charge ordering.Comment: File latex, 11 p. + 3 Figures, to appear on Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Commun.), 1 Oct. 1996. The figures will be faxed upon request. E-mail:[email protected] Fax: +39-6-446315

    Small and large polarons in nickelates, manganites, and cuprates

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    By comparing the optical conductivities of La_{1.67}Sr_{0.33}NiO_{4} (LSNO), Sr_{1.5}La_{0.5}MnO_4 (SLMO), Nd_2CuO_{4-y} (NCO), and Nd_{1.96}Ce_{0.04}CuO_{4} (NCCO), we have identified a peculiar behavior of polarons in this cuprate family. While in LSNO and SLMO small polarons localize into ordered structures below a transition temperature, in those cuprates the polarons appear to be large, and at low T their binding energy decreases. This reflects into an increase of the polaron radius, which may trigger coherent transport.Comment: File latex, 15 p. incl. 4 Figs. epsf, to appear on the Journal of Superconductivity - Proc. "Stripes 1996" - Roma Dec 199

    Optical conductivity of the nonsuperconducting cuprate La(8-x)Sr(x)Cu(8)O(20)

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    La(8-x)Sr(x)Cu(8)O(20) is a non-superconducting cuprate, which exhibits a doubling of the elementary cell along the c axis. Its optical conductivity sigma (omega) has been first measured here, down to 20 K, in two single crystals with x = 1.56 and x = 2.24. Along c, sigma (omega) shows, in both samples, bands due to strongly bound charges, thus confirming that the cell doubling is due to charge ordering. In the ab plane, in addition to the Drude term one observes an infrared peak at 0.1 eV and a midinfrared band at 0.7 eV. The 0.1 eV peak hardens considerably below 200 K, in correspondence of an anomalous increase in the sample dc resistivity, in agreement with its polaronic origin. This study allows one to establish relevant similarities and differences with respect to the spectrum of the ab plane of the superconducting cuprates.Comment: Revised version submitted to Phys. Rev. B, including the elimination of Fig. 1 and changes to Figs. 4 and

    Involution and Constrained Dynamics I: The Dirac Approach

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    We study the theory of systems with constraints from the point of view of the formal theory of partial differential equations. For finite-dimensional systems we show that the Dirac algorithm completes the equations of motion to an involutive system. We discuss the implications of this identification for field theories and argue that the involution analysis is more general and flexible than the Dirac approach. We also derive intrinsic expressions for the number of degrees of freedom.Comment: 28 pages, latex, no figure

    Spectral properties of the t-J model in the presence of hole-phonon interaction

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    We examine the effects of electron-phonon interaction on the dynamics of the charge carriers doped in two-dimensional (2D) Heisenberg antiferromagnet. The tt-JJ model Hamiltonian with a Fr\"ohlich term which couples the holes to a dispersionless (optical) phonon mode is considered for low doping concentration. The evolution of the spectral density function, the density of states, and the momentum distribution function of the holes with an increase of the hole-phonon coupling constant gg is studied numerically. As the coupling to a phonon mode increases the quasiparticle spectral weight decreases and a ``phonon satellite'' feature close to the quasi-particle peak becomes more pronounced. Furthermore, strong electron-phonon coupling smears the multi-magnon resonances (``string states'') in the incoherent part of the spectral function. The jump in the momentum distribution function at the Fermi surface is reduced without changing the hole pocket volume, thereby providing a numerical verification of Luttinger theorem for this strongly interacting system. The vertex corrections due to electron- phonon interaction are negligible in spite of the fact that the ratio of the phonon frequency to the effective bandwidth is not small.Comment: REVTeX, 20 pages, 9 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. B (Nov. 1, 1996
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