363 research outputs found
Solution of the Holstein polaron anisotropy problem
We study Holstein polarons in three-dimensional anisotropic materials. Using
a variational exact diagonalization technique we provide highly accurate
results for the polaron mass and polaron radius. With these data we discuss the
differences between polaron formation in dimension one and three, and at small
and large phonon frequency. Varying the anisotropy we demonstrate how a polaron
evolves from a one-dimensional to a three-dimensional quasiparticle. We thereby
resolve the issue of polaron stability in quasi-one-dimensional substances and
clarify to what extent such polarons can be described as one-dimensional
objects. We finally show that even the local Holstein interaction leads to an
enhancement of anisotropy in charge carrier motion.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures; extended version accepted for publication in
Phys. Rev.
A new model to describe the physics of VOPO
In the past different models for the magnetic salt vanadyl pyrophosphate
(VOPO) were discussed. Neither a spin ladder nor an alternating chain are
capable to describe recently measured magnetic excitations. In this paper we
propose a 2D model that fits better to experimental observations.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures include
Momentum average approximation for models with boson-modulated hopping: Role of closed loops in the dynamical generation of a finite quasiparticle mass
We generalize the momentum average approximation to study the properties of
single polarons in models with boson affected hopping, where the fermion-boson
scattering depends explicitly on both the fermion's and the boson's momentum.
As a specific example, we investigate the Edwards fermion-boson model in both
one and two dimensions. In one dimension, this allows us to compare our results
with exact diagonalization results, to validate the accuracy of our
approximation. The generalization to two-dimensional lattices allows us to
calculate the polaron's quasiparticle weight and dispersion throughout the
Brillouin zone and to demonstrate the importance of Trugman loops in generating
a finite effective mass even when the free fermion has an infinite mass.Comment: 15 pages, 14 figure
Luttinger liquid versus charge density wave behaviour in the one-dimensional spinless fermion Holstein model
We discuss the nature of the different ground states of the half-filled
Holstein model of spinless fermions in 1D. In the metallic regime we determine
the renormalised effective coupling constant and the velocity of the charge
excitations by a density-matrix renormalisation group (DMRG) finite-size
scaling approach. At low (high) phonon frequencies the Luttinger liquid is
characterised by an attractive (repulsive) effective interaction. In the
charge-density wave Peierls-distorted state the charge structure factor scales
to a finite value indicating long-range order.Comment: 2 pages, 3 figures, submitted to SCES'0
Carrier-density effects in many-polaron systems
Many-polaron systems with finite charge-carrier density are often encountered
experimentally. However, until recently, no satisfactory theoretical
description of these systems was available even in the framework of simple
models such as the one-dimensional spinless Holstein model considered here. In
this work, previous results obtained using numerical as well as analytical
approaches are reviewed from a unified perspective, focussing on spectral
properties which reveal the nature of the quasiparticles in the system. In the
adiabatic regime and for intermediate electron-phonon coupling, a
carrier-density driven crossover from a polaronic to a rather metallic system
takes place. Further insight into the effects due to changes in density is
gained by calculating the phonon spectral function, and the fermion-fermion and
fermion-lattice correlation functions. Finally, we provide strong evidence
against the possibility of phase separation.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in J. Phys.: Condens.
Matter; final versio
Electron dynamics in graphene with gate-defined quantum dots
We use numerically exact Chebyshev expansion and kernel polynomial methods to
study transport through circular graphene quantum dots in the framework of a
tight-binding honeycomb lattice model. Our focus lies on the regime where
individual modes of the electrostatically defined dot dominate the charge
carrier dynamics. In particular, we discuss the scattering of an injected Dirac
electron wave packet for a single quantum dot, electron confinement in the dot,
the optical excitation of dot-bound modes, and the propagation of an electronic
excitation along a linear array of dots.Comment: revised version, 6 pages, 7 figure
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