Polaronic approach to strongly correlated electron system with strong electron-phonon interaction

TL;DR

This paper develops a polaronic model for strongly correlated electrons with significant electron-phonon interactions, analyzing quasiparticle dispersions and spectral weights in a CuO4 cluster, revealing strong renormalization effects and localization phenomena.

Contribution

It introduces a cluster perturbation approach incorporating local polaronic eigenstates to study electron-phonon effects in strongly correlated systems.

Findings

Quasiparticle dispersion shows hybridization of Hubbard subbands with Franck-Condon resonances.

Strong electron-phonon interaction leads to quasiparticle localization.

Partial compensation of interactions affects quasiparticle properties.

Abstract

The three band p-d model of strongly correlated electrons interacting with optical phonon via diagonal and off-diagonal electron-phonon interaction is considered within cluster perturbation theory. At first step the exact diagonalization of the Hamiltonian of CuO4 cluster results in the construction of local polaronic eigenstates |p> with hole numbers nh=0,1,2 per unit cell. The inter cluster hoppings and interactions are exactly written in terms of Hubbard operators X(pq)= |p><q| determined within the multielectron polaronic eigenstates |p>. The Fermi type single electron quasiparticle dispersion and spectral weight are calculated for the undoped antiferromagnetic parent insulator like La2CuO4. The quasiparticle dispersion of Hubbard polarons is determined by a hybridization of the several Hubbard subbands with local Franck-Condon resonances. For small electron-phonon interaction the conductivity band is stronger renormalized then the valence band. Nevertheless for large electron-phonon interaction both bands are strongly renormalized with quasiparticle localization. Effect of partial compensation of diagonal and off-diagonal electron-phonon interaction at intermediate coupling is found.