Polarons in Advanced Materials [electronic resource] / edited by A. S. Alexandrov.

Large and Small Polarons -- Optical Properties of Few and Many Frȵhlich Polarons from 3D to 0D -- Small Polarons: Transport Phenomena -- Magnetic and Spin Effects in Small Polaron Hopping -- Single Polaron Properties in Different Electron Phonon Models -- Path Integrals in the Physics of Lattice Polarons -- Path Integral Methods in the SuSchriefferHeeger Polaron Problem -- Bipolarons in Multi-Polaron Systems -- Superconducting Polarons and Bipolarons -- Small Adiabatic Polarons and Bipolarons -- From Single Polaron to Short Scale Phase Separation -- Strongly Correlated Polarons -- Numerical Solution of the Holstein Polaron Problem -- Lang-Firsov Approaches to Polaron Physics: From Variational Methods to Unbiased Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations -- Spectroscopic Properties of Polarons in Strongly Correlated Systems by Exact Diagrammatic Monte Carlo Method -- Polarons in Contemporary Materials -- Photoinduced Polaron Signatures in Infrared Spectroscopy -- Polarons in Colossal Magnetoresistive and High-Temperature Superconducting Materials -- Polaron Effects in High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors -- Current Rectification, Switching, Polarons, and Defects in Molecular Electronic Devices.

Polarons in Advanced Materials will lead the reader from single-polaron problems to multi-polaron systems and finally to a description of many interesting phenomena in high-temperature superconductors, ferromagnetic oxides, conducting polymers and molecular nanowires. The book divides naturally into four parts. Part I introduces a single polaron and describes recent achievements in analytical and numerical studies of polaron properties in different electron-phonon models. Part II and Part III describe multi-polaron physics, and Part IV describes many key physical properties of high-temperature superconductors, colossal magnetoresistance oxides, conducting polymers and molecular nanowires, which were understood with polarons and bipolarons. The book is written in the form of self-consistent reviews authored by well-established researchers actively working in the field and will benefit scientists and postgraduate students with a background in condensed matter physics and materials sciences.

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