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Diagrammatic Monte Carlo method for many-polaron problems

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-04-10 v2 Materials Science

Abstract

We introduce the first bold diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach to deal with polaron problems at finite density non-perturbatively, i.e., by including vertex corrections to high orders. Using Holstein model on a square lattice as a prototypical example, we demonstrate that our method is capable of providing accurate results in the thermodynamic limit in all regimes from renormalized Fermi-liquid to single polarons, across the non-adiabatic region where Fermi and Debye energies are of the same order of magnitude. By accounting for vertex corrections the accuracy of theoretical description is increased by orders of magnitude relative to the lowest-order self-consistent Born approximation employed in most studies. We also find that for electron-phonon coupling typical for real materials, the quasiparticle effective mass increases and the quasiparticle residue decreases with increasing the system density.

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@article{arxiv.1406.4267,
  title  = {Diagrammatic Monte Carlo method for many-polaron problems},
  author = {Andrey S. Mishchenko and Naoto Nagaosa and Nikolay Prokof'ev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.4267},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Published version, comparison with DMFT and Momentum Average method are added in comparison with first version

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