The large polaron first-order phase transition
- 10 December 1980
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics
- Vol. 13 (34) , 6369-6379
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3719/13/34/007
Abstract
The large polaron first-order phase transition from the mobile to the self-trapped phase is determined from a variational principal. The transition is a spontaneous transition to a coherent state breaking the translational invariance of the polaron Hamiltonian.Keywords
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