On the Feynman polaron

Jozef  T. Devreese; Roger P. Evrard

doi:10.1016/0031-9163(66)90861-4

On the Feynman polaron

Jozef T. Devreese, Roger P. Evrard

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Abstract

Feynman's approximation is applied to a symmetrical, exactly soluble polaron model. This approximation is very accurate and its largest error occurs for "intermediate coupling". Two other theories are shown to be much less accurate.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	196-198
Number of pages	3
Journal	Physics Letters
Volume	23
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9163(66)90861-4
State	Published - 17 Oct 1966
Externally published	Yes

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