A new variational approach for the Holstein Molecular Crystal Model

Details A new variational approach for the Holstein Molecular Crystal Model A new variational approach for the Holstein Molecular Crystal Model

1999-09-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9909305v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

21 pages, 8 figures, to appear on Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.60.15163

A new variational technique is developed to investigate the polaronic features of the Holstein Molecular Crystal Model. It is based on a linear superposition of Bloch states that describe large and small polaron wave functions. It is shown that this method provides a very good description of the regime characterized by intermediate values of the electron-phonon coupling constant (the so-called intermediate polaron) for any value of the adiabatic parameter $\omega_0/t$. The polaron ground state energy in one and two dimensions is calculated and successfully compared with the best estimates available providing a clear physical interpretation of the intermediate polaron. The band structure, the spectral weight of the ground state and the lattice displacement associated to the polaron are also calculated and discussed. The new method has the advantage to require a very little computational effort.

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