Landau–Pekar equations and quantumfluctuations for the dynamics of a strongly coupled polaron

Abstract

We consider the Fröhlich Hamiltonian with large coupling constant α. For initial data of Pekar product form with coherent phonon field and with the electron minimizing the corresponding energy, we provide a norm-approximation of the evolution, valid up to times of order α2. The approximation is given in terms of a Pekar product state, evolved through the Landau–Pekar equations, corrected by a Bogoliubov dynamics taking quantum fluctuations into account. This allows us to show that the Landau–Pekar equations approximately describe the evolution of the electron- and one-phonon reduced density matrices under the Fröhlich dynamics up to times of order α2.