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We present a comprehensive theoretical treatment of the effect of electron-phonon interactions in molecular transistors, including both quantal and classical limits and we study both equilibrated and out of equilibrium phonons. We present…

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Anharmonicity of the inter-atomic potential is taken into account for the quantitative simulation of the conduction and valence band offsets for highly-strained semiconductor heterostructures. The anharmonicity leads to a weaker compressive…

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Semiclassical quantization is exact only for the so called \emph{solvable} potentials, such as the harmonic oscillator. In the \emph{nonsolvable} case the semiclassical phase, given by a series in $\hbar$, yields more or less approximate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Matzkin

We obtain the phase diagram of the half-filled two-dimensional Hubbard model on a square lattice in the presence of Einstein phonons. We find that the interplay between the instantaneous electron-electron repulsion and electron-phonon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 F. D. Klironomos , S. -W. Tsai

In these notes we give a very rough sketch of nonperturbative methods of many body quantum field theory that are powerful enough to rigorously control weak coupling instabilities in condensed matter phyics, for example, the Cooper…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Joel Feldman , Jacques Magnen , Vincent Rivasseau , Eugene Trubowitz

The relaxation of electrons in quantum dots via phonon emission is hindered by the discrete nature of the dot levels (phonon bottleneck). In order to clarify the issue theoretically we consider a system of $N$ discrete fermionic states (dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Stauber , R. Zimmermann , H. Castella

We present analytic solutions to the spatially homogeneous axion field equation, using a model potential which strongly resembles the $(1-\cos \theta)$ standard anharmonic potential. We find that the anharmonicity amplifies early universe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Karl Strobl , Thomas J. Weiler

Fundamental upper bounds on the electron-phonon interaction strength and superconducting transition temperature $T_c$ in metals are established based on the intrinsic instability of the equilibrium between electrons and the crystal lattice…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-05 Dmitrii V. Semenok , Boris L. Altshuler , Emil A. Yuzbashyan

We have developed a simple method to solve anharmonic oscillators equations. The idea of our method is mainly based on the partitioning of the potential curve into (n+1) small intervals, solving the Schr\"odinger equation in each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-23 F. Maiz , M. Nasr

An original approach is suggested to analysis of full quantum Liouville equation for single electron (quantum particle) interacting with ideal phonon gas (harmonic boson thermostat). It is shown that under the thermodynamic limit this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-19 Yu. E. Kuzovlev

The anharmonicity resulted from the intrinsic phonon interaction is neglected by quasiharmonic approximation. Although the intensive researches about anharmonicity have been done, up to now the free energy contributed by the anharmonicity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhongqing Wu , Renata M. Wentzcovitch

We consider a one-dimensional infinite chain of coupled charged har- monic oscillators in a magnetic field with a small stochastic perturbation of order $\epsilon$. We prove that for a space-time scale of order $\epsilon$^{-1} the density…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Keiji Saito , Makiko Sasada , Hayate Suda

Non-perturbative solutions to the quantum-field theory is a topic of current and broad interest, especially for the heavy ion and laser physics communities, since they investigate particle production in the presence of strong external…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 H. Honkanen

We introduce a method based on auxiliary master equation for solving the problem of an impurity with local electron-electron and electron-phonon interaction embedded between two conduction leads with a finite bias voltage. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-27 D. Werner , R. Žitko , E. Arrigoni

The nonlinear supersymmetry of one-dimensional systems is investigated in the context of the quantum anomaly problem. Any classical supersymmetric system characterized by the nonlinear in the Hamiltonian superalgebra is symplectomorphic to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Sergey Klishevich , Mikhail Plyushchay

We show that thermal equilibrium between conduction electrons and phonons becomes kinetically unstable when the renormalized electron-phonon coupling exceeds a certain threshold. We prove that negative electronic specific heat,…

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On the basis of the self-consistent phonon theory and the special displacement method, we develop an approach for the treatment of anharmonicity in solids. We show that this approach enables the efficient calculation of…

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Conventional weak-coupling perturbation theory suffers from problems that arise from resonant coupling of successive orders in the perturbation series. Multiple-scale perturbation theory avoids such problems by implicitly performing an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Carl M. Bender , Luis M. A. Bettencourt

We analyze decoherence of an electron in a double-dot due to the interaction with acoustic phonons. For large tunneling rates between the quantum dots, the main contribution to decoherence comes from the phonon emission relaxation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Fedichkin , A. Fedorov

The spectral problem for O(D) symmetric polynomial potentials allows for a partial algebraic solution after analytical continuation to negative even dimensions D. This fact is closely related to the disappearance of the factorial growth of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-05 P. V. Pobylitsa