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EUROPHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 68, Issue 4, Pages 564-570Publisher
E D P SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2004-10226-2
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We present the complete ground-state phase diagram of the Holstein model in two and three dimension considering the phonon variables to be classical. We first establish the overall structure of the phase diagram by using exact-diagonalisation-based Monte Carlo (ED-MC) on small lattices and then use a new travelling cluster approximation (TCA) for annealing the phonon degrees of freedom on large lattices. The phases that emerge include a Fermi liquid (FL), with no lattice distortions, an insulating polaron liquid (PL) at strong coupling, and a charge-ordered insulating (COI) phase around half-filling. The COI phase is separated from the Fermi liquid by a regime of phase coexistence whose width grows with increasing electron-phonon coupling. We provide results on the electronic density of states, the COI order parameter, and the spatial organisation of polaronic states, for arbitrary density and electron-phonon coupling. The results highlight the crucial role of spatial correlations in this strong-coupling problem.
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