Polaron Problem by Diagrammatic Quantum Monte Carlo
Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We present a precise solution of the polaron problem by a novel Monte Carlo method. Basing on conventional diagrammatic expansion for the Green function of the polaron, , we construct a process of generating continuous random variables and , with the distribution function exactly coinciding with . The polaron spectrum is extracted from the asymptotic behavior of the Green function. We compare our results for the polaron energy with the variational treatment of Feynman, and for the first time present precise dispersion curve which features an ending point at finite momentum.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9804097,
title = {Polaron Problem by Diagrammatic Quantum Monte Carlo},
author = {Nikolai V. Prokof'ev and Boris V. Svistunov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9804097},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Latex, 4 pages, 5 figures