Path Integral of the Holstein Model with a ${\varphi }^4$ on site potential

Abstract

We derive the path integral of the semiclassical, one dimensional anharmonic Holstein model assuming that the electron motion takes place in a bath of non linear oscillators with quartic on site hard (and soft) potentials. The interplay between {\it e-ph} coupling and anharmonic force constant is analysed both in the adiabatic and antiadiabatic regime. In the latter we find much larger anharmonic features on the thermodynamic properties of low energy oscillators. Soft on site potentials generate attractive centres at large amplitude oscillator paths and contribute to the anomalous shape of the {\it heat capacity over temperature} ratio in the intermediate to low $T$ range. This anharmonic lattice effect is superimposed to the purely electronic contribution associated to a temperature dependent hopping with variable range inducing local disorder in the system.

arXiv commentTo be published in Phys.Rev.B

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