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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.

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Author:   Alexandre S. Alexandrov
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2007 ed.
Volume:   103
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.196kg
ISBN:  

9781402063473

ISBN 10:   1402063474
Pages:   672
Publication Date:   02 October 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Large and Small Polarons.- Optical Properties of Few and Many Fröhlich Polarons from 3D to 0D.- Small Polarons: Transport Phenomena.- Magnetic and Spin Effects in Small Polaron Hopping.- Single Polaron Properties in Different Electron Phonon Models.- Path Integrals in the Physics of Lattice Polarons.- Path Integral Methods in the Su–Schrieffer–Heeger Polaron Problem.- Bipolarons in Multi-Polaron Systems.- Superconducting Polarons and Bipolarons.- Small Adiabatic Polarons and Bipolarons.- From Single Polaron to Short Scale Phase Separation.- Strongly Correlated Polarons.- Numerical Solution of the Holstein Polaron Problem.- Lang-Firsov Approaches to Polaron Physics: From Variational Methods to Unbiased Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations.- Spectroscopic Properties of Polarons in Strongly Correlated Systems by Exact Diagrammatic Monte Carlo Method.- Polarons in Contemporary Materials.- Photoinduced Polaron Signatures in Infrared Spectroscopy.- Polarons in Colossal Magnetoresistive and High-Temperature Superconducting Materials.- Polaron Effects in High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors.- Current Rectification, Switching, Polarons, and Defects in Molecular Electronic Devices.

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