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Stability and dynamics of free magnetic polarons

M. J. Calderon, L. Brey, P. B. Littlewood

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/9911109

Abstract

The stability and dynamics of a free magnetic polaron are studied by Monte Carlo simulation of a classical two-dimensional Heisenberg model coupled to a single electron. We compare our results to the earlier mean-field analysis of the stability of the polaron, finding qualitative similarity but quantitative differences. The dynamical simulations give estimates of the temperature dependence of the polaron diffusion, as well as a crossover to a tunnelling regime.

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