TY - BOOK AU - Alexandrov,Alexandre S. AU - Devreese,Jozef T. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Advances in Polaron Physics T2 - Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, SN - 9783642018961 AV - QC173.45-173.458 U1 - 530.41 23 PY - 2010/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Physics KW - Optics KW - Electrodynamics KW - Condensed matter KW - Solid state physics KW - Superconductivity KW - Superconductors KW - Spectroscopy KW - Microscopy KW - Electronics KW - Microelectronics KW - Condensed Matter Physics KW - Optics and Electrodynamics KW - Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation KW - Solid State Physics KW - Spectroscopy and Microscopy KW - Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity N1 - Continuum Polaron -- Lattice Polaron -- Bipolaron -- Multipolaron Problem -- Polarons and Bipolarons in Advanced Materials -- Current Status of Polarons and Open Problems N2 - While basic features of polarons were well recognized a long time ago and have been described in a number of review papers and textbooks, interest in the role of electron-phonon interactions and polaron dynamics in contemporary materials has recently gone through a vigorous revival. Electron-phonon interactions have been shown to be relevant in high-temperature superconductors and colossal magnetoresistance oxides, and transport through nanowires and quantum dots also often depends on vibronic displacements of ions. The continued interest in polarons extends beyond physical description of advanced materials. The field has been a testing ground for analytical, semi-analytical, and numerical techniques, such as path integrals, strong-coupling perturbation expansion, advanced variational, exact diagonalization, density-matrix renormalization group, dynamic mean-field, and quantum Monte Carlo techniques. Single and multi-polaron theories have offered a new insight in our understanding of high-temperature superconductivity, colossal magnetoresistance, and the correlated transport through molecular quantum dots. This book reviews some recent developments in the field of polarons, starting with the basics and covering a number of active directions of research UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01896-1 ER -