Polarons in Advanced Materials

Preface: Sasha AlexandrovReminiscences of the Early Days of Polaron Theory; Emmanuel I. RashbaPart 1: Large and Small PolaronsOptical Properties of Few and Many Frvhlich Polarons from 3D to 0D; Jozef T. DevreeseSmall Polarons: Transport Phenomena; Yurii A. FirsovMagnetic and Spin Effects in Small Polaron Hopping; Harald Bvttger, Valerij V. Bryksin, and Thomas DankerSingle Polaron Properties in Different Electron Phonon Models; V. Cataudella, G. De Filippis and C.A. PerroniPath Integrals in the Physics of Lattice Polarons; Pavel KornilovitchPath Integral Methods in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Polaron; Marco ZoliPart 2: Bipolarons in Multi-Polaron SystemsSuperconducting Polarons and Bipolarons; A.S. AlexandrovSmall Adiabatic Polarons and Bipolarons; Serge AubryFrom Single Polaron to Short Scale Phase Separation; V.V. KabanovPart 3: Strongly Correlated PolaronsNumerical Solution of the Holstein Polaron Problem; H. Fehske and S.A. TrugmanLang-Firsov Appraches to Polaron Physics: From Variational Methods to Unbiased Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations; Martin Hohenadler and Wolfgang van der LindenSpectroscopic Properties of Polarons in Strongly Correlated Systems by Exact Diagrammatic Monte Carlo Method; A.S. Mishchenko, and N. NagaosaPart 4: Polarons in Contemporary MaterialsPhotoinduced Polaron Signatures in Infrared Spectroscopy; Dragan MihailovicPolarons in Colossal Magnetoresistive and High-Temperature Superconducting Materials; Guo-meng ZhaoPolaron Effects in High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors; Annette Bussmann-Holder and Hugo KellerCurrent Rectification, Switching, Polarons, and Defects in Molecular Electronic Devices; A.M. BratkovskyIndex