Multipeaked polarons in soft potentials.

نویسندگان

  • M A Fuentes
  • P Maniadis
  • G Kalosakas
  • K Ø Rasmussen
  • A R Bishop
  • V M Kenkre
  • Yu B Gaididei
چکیده

We consider a minimal coupled charge / excitation-lattice model capturing a competition between linear polaronic self-trapping and the self-focusing effects of a soft nonlinear on-site potential. The standard single-humped polaron ceases to exist above a critical value of the coupling strength, closely related to the inflection point in the nonlinear potential. For couplings beyond this critical value, we find that successive multihumped polaronic solutions correspond to the lowest-energy stationary states of the system, which may admit interesting quantum resonance behavior.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

دوره 70 2 Pt 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004