Polarons in Advanced Materials

ISBN-13: 9781402063473 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 672 str.

Alexandre Sergeevich Alexandrov; A. S. Alexandrov

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Preface: Sasha Alexandrov Reminiscences of the Early Days of Polaron Theory; Emmanuel I. Rashba Part 1: Large and Small Polarons Optical Properties of Few and Many Frvhlich Polarons from 3D to 0D; Jozef T. Devreese Small Polarons: Transport Phenomena; Yurii A. Firsov Magnetic and Spin Effects in Small Polaron Hopping; Harald Bvttger, Valerij V. Bryksin, and Thomas Danker Single Polaron Properties in Different Electron Phonon Models; V. Cataudella, G. De Filippis and C.A. Perroni Path Integrals in the Physics of Lattice Polarons; Pavel Kornilovitch 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

Blurb

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.