A note on the Fr\"ohlich dynamics in the strong coupling limit

Abstract

We revise a previous result about the Fr\"ohlich dynamics in the strong coupling limit obtained in [Gri17]. In the latter it was shown that the Fr\"ohlich time evolution applied to the initial state $\varphi_0 \otimes \xi_\alpha$, where $\varphi_0$ is the electron ground state of the Pekar energy functional and $\xi_\alpha$ the associated coherent state of the phonons, can be approximated by a global phase for times small compared to $\alpha^2$. In the present note we prove that a similar approximation holds for $t=O(\alpha^2)$ if one includes a nontrivial effective dynamics for the phonons that is generated by an operator proportional to $\alpha^{-2}$ and quadratic in creation and annihilation operators. Our result implies that the electron ground state remains close to its initial state for times of order $\alpha^2$ while the phonon fluctuations around the coherent state $\xi_\alpha$ can be described by a time-dependent Bogoliubov transformation.