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Superlight small bipolarons

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posted on 2008-10-30, 16:38 authored by J.P. Hague, P.E. Kornilovitch, John Samson, A.S. Alexandrov
Recent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) has identified that a finite-range Fröhlich electron-phonon interaction (EPI) with c-axis polarized optical phonons is important in cuprate superconductors, in agreement with an earlier proposal by Alexandrov and Kornilovitch. The estimated unscreened EPI is so strong that it could easily transform doped holes into mobile lattice bipolarons in narrow-band Mott insulators such as cuprates. Applying a continuous-time quantum Monte-Carlo algorithm (CTQMC) we compute the total energy, effective mass, pair radius, number of phonons and isotope exponent of lattice bipolarons in the region of parameters where any approximation might fail taking into account the Coulomb repulsion and the finite-range EPI. The effects of modifying the interaction range and different lattice geometries are discussed with regards to analytical strong-coupling/non-adiabatic results. We demonstrate that bipolarons can be simultaneously small and light, provided suitable conditions on the electron-phonon and electron-electron interaction are satisfied. Such light small bipolarons are a necessary precursor to high-temperature Bose-Einstein condensation in solids. The light bipolaron mass is shown to be universal in systems made of triangular plaquettes, due to a novel crab-like motion. Another surprising result is that the triplet-singlet exchange energy is of the first order in the hopping integral and triplet bipolarons are heavier than singlets in certain lattice structures at variance with intuitive expectations. Finally, we identify a range of lattices where superlight small bipolarons may be formed, and give estimates for their masses in the anti-adiabatic approximation.

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HAGUE, J.P. ... et al, 2007. Superlight small bipolarons. Journal of Physics : Condensed Matter, 19 (25), 255214 (26 pp.) [doi:10.1088/0953-8984/19/25/255214]

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2007

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This article was published in the journal, Journal of Physics : Condensed Matter [© Institute of Physics] and the definitive version is available at: stacks.iop.org/JPhysCM/19/255214

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0953-8984

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