Effect of quantum fluctuations on the peierls instability: A monte carlo study

Jorge E. Hirsch, Eduardo Fradkin

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Abstract

The effect of quantum fluctuations of the phonon field on the ground-state character of one-dimensional electron-phonon systems is studied with a numerical simulation technique. Two different electron-phonon models are studied, both for spinless and spin-1/2 electrons, in the half-filled-band case. In both models, it is found that in the spinless case quantum fluctuations destroy the long-range dimerization order for small electron-phonon coupling constant ≫. For the spin-1/2 case, the results are consistent with the Peierls transition occurring at ≫=0.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)402-405
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume49
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 1982

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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