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arxiv: cond-mat/0312111 · v1 · submitted 2003-12-04 · ❄️ cond-mat.str-el · cond-mat.stat-mech

Optical conductivity of the Frohlich polaron

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keywords conductivityopticalcouplingfrohlichpolaronstatesaccurateanalytic
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We present accurate results for optical conductivity of the three dimensional Frohlich polaron in all coupling regimes. The systematic-error free diagrammatic quantum Monte Carlo method is employed where the Feynman graphs for the momentum-momentum correlation function in imaginary time are summed up. The real-frequency optical conductivity is obtained by the analytic continuation with stochastic optimization. We compare numerical data with available perturbative and non-perturbative approaches to the optical conductivity and show that the picture of sharp resonances due to relaxed excited states in the strong coupling regime is ``washed out''by large broadening of these states. As a result, the spectrum contains only a single-maximum broad peak with peculiar shape and a shoulder.

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