Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2000-09-20
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
4 Pages, 2 Figures included, Int. Conf. M2S-HTSC-VI (Houston 2000) to be published in Physica C
Scientific paper
On examining the stability of a Wigner Crystal (WC) in an ionic dielectric, two competitive effects due to Polaron formation are found to be important: (i) the screening of the Coulomb forces which destabilizes the crystal, compensated by (ii) the increase of the carrier mass (polaron mass). The quantum melting of the Polaron Wigner Crystal (PWC) is examined. By calculating the quantum fluctuations of both the electrons and the polarization, we show that there is a competition between the dissociation of the Polarons at the insulator-to-metal transition (IMT), and a melting towards a polaron liquid. We find that at strong coupling ($\alpha > \alpha^*$), a liquid state of polarons cannot exist, and the IMT is driven by polaron dissociation. Next, we show that the dipolar interactions between localized polarons are responsible for a phonon instability of the PWC as the density increases. This provides a new mechanism for the IMT in doped dielectrics. Examining the sign of the dielectric constant of the PWC, we conjecture that such an instability could yield an Insulator-to-Superconductor transition.
Fratini Simone
Quemerais Pascal
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