Generalized polaron ansatz for the ground state of the sub-Ohmic spin-boson model: An analytic theory of the localization transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Chin, Alex W ^a   Prior, Javier ^b   Huelga, Susana F ^a   Plenio, Martin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC THEORY; ANALYTICAL THEORY; CONTINUOUS TRANSITIONS; CRITICAL PROPERTIES; MEAN-FIELD; MICROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS; SPIN BOSON MODELS; SPIN COHERENCE; ZERO TEMPERATURES;

BOSONS; POLARONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 80053948625     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.160601     Document Type: Article

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