1st Edition

Polarons and Bipolarons An Introduction

By Ashok Chatterjee, Soma Mukhopadhyay Copyright 2019
478 Pages 113 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

478 Pages 113 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

This book provides a comprehensive review of the subject of polaron and a thorough account of the sophisticated theories of the polaron. It explains the concept of the polaron physics in as simple a manner as possible and presents the theoretical techniques and mathematical derivations in great detail. Anybody who follows this book will develop a solid command over the subject both conceptually... Read more

Section I Basic Polaron Concepts

1 Qualitative Picture

Section II Continuum Polarons

2 The Frohlich Hamiltonian

3 Exactly Soluble Polaron Models

4 Weak and Intermediate Coupling Solutions of the Frohlich Hamiltonian

5 Strong-Coupling Solutions of the Frohlich Hamiltonian

6 Attempts at All-Coupling Solutions of the Frohlich Hamiltonian

7 Path-Integral Solutions of the Frohlich Hamiltonian

8 Green’s Function Theories for the Frohlich Polaron

9 The Bound Polaron Problem

10 Magneto-Optics of Polarons

11 Large Optical Bipolaron

12 Instabilities in the Polaron Models

Section III _Polarons in Arbitrary Dimensions

and Confined System

13 Multi-Dimensional Polarons and Bound Polarons

14 Polarons in Confined Geometries

15 Bipolarons in a Quantum Dot

16 Magneto-Polarons in a Quantum Dot

17 Polarons in One Dimension: Frohlich・Toyozawa・Luttinger Model

Section IV Polarons in Tight-binding Models

18 Small Polaron: Holstein Model

19 Polaron in Tight Binding Models with Coulomb Correlation

20 Non-Equilibrium Transport through a Single-Molecular Transistor

Biography

Prof. Ashok Chatterjee  is a Professor at School of Physics, University of Hyderabad in India.

Soma Mukhopadhyay, is a Professor at CMR College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India.