posted on 2009-02-27, 13:08authored byA.S. Alexandrov
We perform the exact diagonalization of two, four, and six vibrating molecules strongly coupled with one electron to show that a small polaron describes both adiabatic and nonadiabatic regimes. Electron spectra are derived and compared with the adiabatic Holstein approximation and with the Lang-Firsov canonical transformation in a wide range of the adiabatic parameter and the coupling strength. We show that the self-consistent Migdal approximation is violated at an intermediate value of the coupling constant λ≃1 and the adiabatic or nonadiabatic small polaron is the ground state for the intermediate and strong coupling λ>1. The phonon frequencies are calculated for a wide range of the coupling, including the intermediate region.
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Science
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Physics
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ALEXANDROV, A.S., 1994. From electron to small polaron: an exact cluster solution. Physical Review B, 49 (14), pp. 9915 - 9923