Abstract
The ground state of a quasi-particle (exciton, electron or hole) interacting with acoustic phonons in a one-dimensional chain, is investigated using the variational method. The diagram of states is obtained which shows the regions of the electron-phonon coupling constant and of the nonadiabaticity parameter where the ground state of a quasiparticle is described as an almost free electron state, a “small polaron”, or a spontaneously localized state. It is shown that the formation of a soliton-like state has a threshold with respect to the value of the electron-phonon interaction, whose critical value increases with increasing nonadiabaticity parameter.
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