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Heavy-Electron Formation and Bipolaronic Transition in the Anharmonic Holstein Model

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2012-03-13 v2

Abstract

The emergence of the bipolaronic phase and the formation of the heavy-electron state in the anharmonic Holstein model are investigated using the dynamical mean-field theory in combination with the exact diagonalization method. For a weak anharmonicity, it is confirmed that the first-order polaron-bipolaron transition occurs from the observation of a discontinuity in the behavior of several physical quantities. When the anharmonicity is gradually increased, the polaron-bipolaron transition temperature is reduced as well as the critical values of the electron-phonon coupling constant for polaron-bipolaron transition. For a strong anharmonicity, the polaron-bipolaron transition eventually changes to a crossover behavior. The effect of anharmonicity on the formation of the heavy-electron state near the polaron-bipolaron transition and the crossover region is discussed in detail.

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@article{arxiv.1110.0648,
  title  = {Heavy-Electron Formation and Bipolaronic Transition in the Anharmonic Holstein Model},
  author = {Takahiro Fuse and Yoshiaki Ono and Takashi Hotta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.0648},
  year   = {2012}
}

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11 pages, 13 figures