Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2010-12-08
Phys. Rev. B 83, 134301 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.83.134301
This work represents a fundamental study of a Holstein polaron in one dimension driven away from the ground state by a constant electric field. Taking fully into account quantum effects we follow the time-evolution of the system from its ground state as the constant electric field is switched on at t = 0, until it reaches a steady state. At weak electron phonon coupling (EP) the system experiences damped Bloch oscillations (BO) characteristic for noninteracting electron band. An analytic expression of the steady state current is proposed in terms of weak EP coupling and large electric field. For moderate values of EP coupling the oscillations are almost critically damped and the system reaches the steady state after a short time. In the strong coupling limit weakly damped BO, consistent with nearly adiabatic evolution within the polaron band, persist up to extremely large electric fields. A traveling polaron under the influence of the electric field leaves behind a trail of phonon excitations absorbing the excess energy gained from the electric field. The shape of the traveling polaron is investigated in details.
Bonča Janez
Mierzejewski Marcin
Prelovsek Peter
Trugman Stuart A.
Vidmar Lev
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