Abstract A variational scheme of the Pekar type is employed to study the strong-coupling optical polaron on the outer surface of the polar crystal under the influence of a magnetic field. The ground state energy and the effective mass of the polaron are obtained as functions of the magnetic field strength and the electron-surface optical phonon coupling constant. It is shown that the effective mass of the surface polaron appears in nonisotropic nature due to the coupling between the electron and the surface optical phonon.
Received: 28 October 1992
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