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Peierls instability for the Holstein model

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We consider the static Holstein model, describing a chain of Fermions interacting with a classical phonon field, when the interaction is weak and the density is a rational number. We show that the energy of the system, as a function of the phonon field, has two stationary points, defined up to a lattice translation, which are local minima in the space of fields periodic with period equal to the inverse of the density.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9803036,
  title  = {Peierls instability for the Holstein model},
  author = {G. Benfatto and G. Gentile and V. Mastropietro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9803036},
  year   = {2007}
}

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