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Journal Article | PreJuSER-57567 |
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2006
APS
College Park, Md.
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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/7706 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.136405
Abstract: The optical absorption of the Frohlich polaron model is obtained by an approximation-free diagrammatic Monte Carlo method and compared with two new approximate approaches that treat lattice relaxation effects in different ways. We show that: (i) a strong coupling expansion, based on the Franck-Condon principle, well describes the optical conductivity for large coupling strengths (alpha > 10); (ii) a memory function formalism with phonon broadened levels reproduces the optical response for weak coupling strengths (alpha < 6) taking the dynamic lattice relaxation into account. In the coupling regime 6 <alpha < 10, the optical conductivity is a rapidly changing superposition of both Franck-Condon and dynamic contributions.
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