Excitonic polaron in the molecular crystal model: Nonlocal dynamic coherent-potential approximation

Abstract

A nonlocal dynamic coherent-potential approximation is formulated as a further development of the dynamic coherent-potential method. The nonlocal dynamic coherent-potential approximation is an efficient method of determining the one-exciton Green’s function in a model with the Hamiltonian in the strong-coupling approximation, where a spectrum of optical phonons is assumed, and the exciton-phonon interaction operator is linear or quadratic in the phonon operators. A system of recursion equations is derived, from which the coherent potential is found as a function of the energy E and the wave vector k. An analytical expression is derived for the one-exciton Green’s function in the case of narrow (in comparison with the phonon energy) exciton bands and exciton-phonon interaction linear in the phonon operators. For broader exciton bands and more complex exciton-phonon interaction the system of equations determining the coherent potential represents a recursion algorithm, which can be effectively implemented by numerical means.