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We usually think of electrons in solids and liquids as behaving like free particles whose motion is impeded by occasional collisions. Evidence is now accumulating for charge carriers with qualitatively different behavior. These new charge carriers, in the simplest case, are extra electrons in condensed matter that become trapped in potential wells of their own creation, forming units known as small polarons.
David Emin (1982) studied this question.