Polarons in Advanced Materials

by Alexandrov, A. S.

• ISBN13: 9781402063473
• ISBN10: 1402063474
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Polarons in Advanced Materials will lead the reader from single-polaron problems to multi-polaron systems and finally to a description of many interesting phenomena in high-temperature superconductors, ferromagnetic oxides, conducting polymers and molecular nanowires. The book divides naturally into three parts. Part I introduces a single polaron and describes recent achievements in analytical and numerical studies of polaron properties in different e-ph models. Part II describes multi-polaron physics, and Part III describes many key physical properties of high-temperature superconductors, colossal magnetoresistance oxides, conducting polymers and molecular nanowires, which were understood with polarons and bipolarons. The book is written in the form of self-consistent reviews authored by well-established researchers actively working in the field and will benefit scientists and postgraduate students with a background in condensed matter physics and materials sciences.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Polarons in Advanced Materials.Part 1: Large and Small Polarons.Optical Properties of Few and Many Fröhlich Polarons from 3D to 0D; Jozef T. DevreeseSmall Polarons: Transport Phenomena; Yurii A. Firsov.Magnetic and Spin Effects in Small Polaron Hopping; Harald Böttger, Valerij V. Bryksin, and Thomas Danker.Single Polaron Properties in Different Electron Phonon Models; V. Cataudella, G. De Filippis and C.A. Perroni.Path Integral Methods in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Polaron; Marco Zoli.Part 2: Bipolarons in Multi-Polaron Systems.Superconducting Polarons and Bipolarons; A.S. Alexandrov.Small Adiabatic Polarons and Bipolarons; Serge Aubry.From Single Polaron to Short Scale Phase Separation; V.V. Kabanov.Part 3: Strongly Correlated Polarons. Numerical Solution of the Holstein Polaron Problem; H. Fehske and S.A. Trugman.Lang-Firsov Appraches to Polaron Physics: From Variational Methods to Unbiased Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations; Martin Hohenadler and Wolfgang van der Linden.Spectroscopic Properties of Polarons in Strongly Correlated Systems by Exact Diagrammatic Monte Carlo Method; A.S. Mishchenko, and N. Nagaosa.Part 4: Polarons in Contemporary Materials. Photoinduced Polaron Signatures in Infrared Spectroscopy; Dragan Mihailovic.Polarons in Colossal Magnetoresistive and High-Temperature Superconducting Materials; Guo-meng Zhao.Polaron Effects in High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors; Annette Bussmann-Holder and Hugo Keller.Current Rectification, Switching, Polarons, and Defects in Molecular Electronic Devices; A.M. Bratkovsky.Index