Abstract
We study the bound states of a three-dimensional Holstein polaron near various kinds of single impurities, using the momentum-average approximation. We show that the electron-phonon coupling is responsible for a strong renormalization of the impurity potential, resulting in an effective potential with significant retardation effects, which describes essential physics ignored by ``instantaneous'' approximations. The accuracy of our approximation is gauged by comparison with results from diagrammatic Monte Carlo for the case of an impurity that modifies the on-site energy of the electron. We also discuss impurities that modify the local strength of the electron-phonon coupling as well as isotope substitutions that change both the electron-phonon coupling and the phonon frequency, and contrast and highlight the difference between these cases.
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