--- _id: '5886' abstract: - lang: eng text: Problems involving quantum impurities, in which one or a few particles are interacting with a macroscopic environment, represent a pervasive paradigm, spanning across atomic, molecular, and condensed-matter physics. In this paper we introduce new variational approaches to quantum impurities and apply them to the Fröhlich polaron–a quasiparticle formed out of an electron (or other point-like impurity) in a polar medium, and to the angulon–a quasiparticle formed out of a rotating molecule in a bosonic bath. We benchmark these approaches against established theories, evaluating their accuracy as a function of the impurity-bath coupling. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Xiang full_name: Li, Xiang id: 4B7E523C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Li - first_name: Giacomo full_name: Bighin, Giacomo id: 4CA96FD4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Bighin orcid: 0000-0001-8823-9777 - first_name: Enderalp full_name: Yakaboylu, Enderalp id: 38CB71F6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Yakaboylu orcid: 0000-0001-5973-0874 - first_name: Mikhail full_name: Lemeshko, Mikhail id: 37CB05FA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Lemeshko orcid: 0000-0002-6990-7802 citation: ama: 'Li X, Bighin G, Yakaboylu E, Lemeshko M. Variational approaches to quantum impurities: from the Fröhlich polaron to the angulon. Molecular Physics. 2019. doi:10.1080/00268976.2019.1567852' apa: 'Li, X., Bighin, G., Yakaboylu, E., & Lemeshko, M. (2019). Variational approaches to quantum impurities: from the Fröhlich polaron to the angulon. Molecular Physics. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2019.1567852' chicago: 'Li, Xiang, Giacomo Bighin, Enderalp Yakaboylu, and Mikhail Lemeshko. “Variational Approaches to Quantum Impurities: From the Fröhlich Polaron to the Angulon.” Molecular Physics. Taylor and Francis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2019.1567852.' ieee: 'X. Li, G. Bighin, E. Yakaboylu, and M. Lemeshko, “Variational approaches to quantum impurities: from the Fröhlich polaron to the angulon,” Molecular Physics. Taylor and Francis, 2019.' ista: 'Li X, Bighin G, Yakaboylu E, Lemeshko M. 2019. Variational approaches to quantum impurities: from the Fröhlich polaron to the angulon. Molecular Physics.' mla: 'Li, Xiang, et al. “Variational Approaches to Quantum Impurities: From the Fröhlich Polaron to the Angulon.” Molecular Physics, Taylor and Francis, 2019, doi:10.1080/00268976.2019.1567852.' short: X. Li, G. Bighin, E. Yakaboylu, M. Lemeshko, Molecular Physics (2019). date_created: 2019-01-27T22:59:10Z date_published: 2019-01-18T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-07T13:16:42Z day: '18' ddc: - '530' department: - _id: MiLe doi: 10.1080/00268976.2019.1567852 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000474641400008' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 178964744b636a6f036372f4f090a657 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-01-29T08:32:57Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:13Z file_id: '5896' file_name: 2019_MolecularPhysics_Li.pdf file_size: 1309966 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:13Z has_accepted_license: '1' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 26031614-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P29902 name: Quantum rotations in the presence of a many-body environment - _id: 25681D80-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '291734' name: International IST Postdoc Fellowship Programme publication: Molecular Physics publication_identifier: issn: - '00268976' publication_status: published publisher: Taylor and Francis quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '8958' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Variational approaches to quantum impurities: from the Fröhlich polaron to the angulon' tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 year: '2019' ...