Polarons in Advanced Materials (eBook)

Alexandre S. Alexandrov (Herausgeber)

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2008 | 2007
XVIII, 672 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-1-4020-6348-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book first introduces a single polaron and describes recent achievements in analytical and numerical studies of polaron properties in different e-ph models. It then describes multi-polaron physics as well as many key physical properties of high-temperature superconductors, colossal magnetoresistance oxides, conducting polymers and molecular nanowires, which were understood with polarons and bipolarons.

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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 four parts. Part I introduces a single polaron and describes recent achievements in analytical and numerical studies of polaron properties in different electron-phonon models. Part II and Part III describe multi-polaron physics, and Part IV 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.

Inhalt

Preface 11
Reminiscences of the Early Days of Polaron Theory 14
Contents 18
List of Contributors 20
Part I Large and Small Polarons 22
Optical Properties of Few and Many Fröhlich Polarons from 3D to 0D 23
Small Polarons: Transport Phenomena 82
Magnetic and Spin E.ects in Small Polaron Hopping 125
Single Polaron Properties in Different Electron Phonon Models 167
Path Integrals in the Physics of Lattice Polarons 208
Path Integral Methods in the Su–Schrieffer–Heeger Polaron Problem 248
Part II Bipolarons in Multi-Polaron Systems 272
Superconducting Polarons and Bipolarons 273
Small Adiabatic Polarons and Bipolarons 327
From Single Polaron to Short Scale Phase Separation 388
Part III Strongly Correlated Polarons 406
Numerical Solution of the Holstein Polaron Problem 407
Lang-Firsov Approaches to Polaron Physics: From Variational Methods to Unbiased Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations 476
Spectroscopic Properties of Polarons in Strongly Correlated Systems by Exact Diagrammatic Monte Carlo Method 516
Part IV Polarons in Contemporary Materials 558
Polarons in Colossal Magnetoresistive and High-Temperature Superconducting Materials 580
Polaron Effects in High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors 609
Current Rectification, Switching, Polarons, and Defects in Molecular Electronic Devices 632
Index 673

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.1.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Springer Series in Materials Science
• Reihe/Serie: Springer Series in Materials Science
• Zusatzinfo: XVIII, 672 p.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Advanced materials • Canopus • Complex Materials • Condensed Matter • Helium-Atom-Streuung • Materials Science • Multi-Polaron systems • polarons • superconducting materials
• ISBN-10: 1-4020-6348-2 / 1402063482
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-6348-0 / 9781402063480