Polaron effective mass from Monte Carlo simulations

Details Polaron effective mass from Monte Carlo simulations Polaron effective mass from Monte Carlo simulations

1997-02-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9702226v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

4 pages + 1 figure, RevTeX. Accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in Phys.Rev.B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.55.R8634

A new Monte Carlo algorithm for calculating polaron effective mass is proposed. It is based on the path-integral representation of a partial partition function with fixed total quasi-momentum. Phonon degrees of freedom are integrated out analytically resulting in a single-electron system with retarded self-interaction and open boundary conditions in imaginary time. The effective mass is inversely proportional to the covariance of total energy calculated on an electron trajectory and the square distance between ends of the trajectory. The method has no limitations on values of model parameters and on the size and dimensionality of the system although large statistics is required for stable numerical results. The method is tested on the one-dimensional Holstein model for which simulation results are presented.

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