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The mechanism of heat transfer and the contribution of electron-phonon coupling to thermal conductance of a metal-semiconductor interface remains unclear in the present literature. We report ab initio simulations of a technologically…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-07 Sridhar Sadasivam , Umesh V. Waghmare , Timothy S. Fisher

Metal halide perovskites exhibit a fairly linear increase of the bandgap with increasing temperature, when crystallized in a tetragonal or cubic phase. In general, both thermal expansion and electron-phonon interaction effects contribute…

Electric conductivity and structural details of the hole-doped polaron conductor La0.9Sr0.1FeO3 (LSF10) are reported. The conductivity of a single crystal shows an exponential increase with temperature with a maxi-mum of 100 S/cm at 700 K…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-07 A. Braun , J. Richter , A. S. Harvey , A. Infortuna , A. Frei , E. Pomjakushina , Bongjin S. Mun , P. Holtappels , U. Vogt , K. Conder , L. J. Gauckler , T. Graule

The low temperature electron-phonon (e-ph) relaxation near the surface of noble metals, Cu and Ag, is studied by using the density-functional theory approach. The appearance of the surface phonon mode can give rise to a strong enhancement…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-20 Shota Ono

Superconducting transition temperature $T_C$ of some of the cubic $\beta$-phase Mo$_{1-x}$Re$_x$ alloys with x > 0.10 is an order of magnitude higher than that in the elements Mo and Re. We investigate this rather enigmatic issue of the…

Electron-phonon superconductors at high pressures have displayed the highest values of critical superconducting temperature $T_c$ on record, now rapidly approaching room temperature. Despite the importance of high-$P$ superconductivity in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-07 Chandan Setty , Matteo Baggioli , Alessio Zaccone

We calculate the effect of local magnetic moments on the electron-phonon coupling in BaFe$_{2}$As$_{2}+\delta$ using the density functional perturbation theory. We show that the magnetism enhances the total electron-phonon coupling by $\sim…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-09-13 Lilia Boeri , Matteo Calandra , Igor I. Mazin , Oleg V. Dolgov , Francesco Mauri

We consider the deformation potential mechanism of the electron-phonon coupling in metal films and investigate the intensity of the associated heat transfer between the electron and phonon subsystems. The focus is on the temperature region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-31 S. Cojocaru , D. V. Anghel

Photoemission studies of graphene have resulted in a long-standing controversy concerning the strength of the experimental electron-phonon interaction in comparison with theoretical calculations. Using high-resolution angle-resolved…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 David A. Siegel , Choongyu Hwang , Alexi V. Fedorov , Alessandra Lanzara

A short overview of theoretical models for the description of the relaxation processes in metals excited by a short laser pulse is presented. The main effort is given to description of different processes which are taking place after…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-20 V. V. Kabanov

The insulator-to-metal transition in solid helium at high pressure is studied with first-principles simulations. Diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) calculations predict that the band gap closes at a density of 21.3 g/cc and a pressure of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-05-30 Saad Antoun Khairallah , Burkhard Militzer

The Hamiltonian describing a system of strongly correlated electrons coupled to dispersionless phonons was solved numerically for a ring of 8 atoms using the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method. It was found that electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Yury Petrov , Takeshi Egami

Magnetic materials are crucial for manipulating electron spin and magnetic fields, enabling applications in data storage, spintronics, charge transport, and energy conversion, while also providing insight into fundamental quantum phenomena.…

Zn(CN)2 is known to have an isotropic negative thermal expansion (NTE) coefficient (about -51 x 10-6 K-1) over 10-370 K that is twice as large as that of ZrW2O8. We have measured the pressure dependence of the phonon spectra up to 30 meV…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Mittal , S. L . Chaplot , H. Schober

We report a comprehensive THz, infrared and optical study of Nb doped SrTiO3 as well as DC conductivity and Hall effect measurements. Our THz spectra at 7K show the presence of a very narrow (<2 meV) Drude peak, the spectral weight of which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 J. L. M. van Mechelen , D. van der Marel , C. Grimaldi , A. B. Kuzmenko , N. P. Armitage , N. Reyren , H. Hagemann , I. I. Mazin

We analyze electron-phonon correlation functions measured in 1D polaron ground states of the Holstein Hamiltonian using the Global-Local variational method. The spatial collapse of electron-phonon correlations is found to occur in concert…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. H. Romero , David W. Brown , Katja Lindenberg

We investigate the harmonic and anharmonic contributions to the phonon spectrum of lead telluride, and perform a complete characterization of how the anharmonic effects dominate the phonons in PbTe as temperature increases. This effect is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-10 A. H. Romero , E. K. U. Gross , M. J. Verstraete , Olle Hellman

Effects of electron-phonon interactions on the band structure can be experimentally investigated in detail by measuring the temperature dependence of energy gaps or critical points (van Hove singularities) of the optical excitation spectra.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Manuel Cardona

We report first principles analysis of electron-phonon coupling in molecular devices under external bias voltage and during current flow. Our theory and computational framework are based carrying out density functional theory within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Sergueev , D. Roubtsov , Hong Guo

In this paper, we investigate the electronic band structure, lattice dynamics and electron-phonon interaction in $\delta$-NbN, $\varepsilon$-NbN and WC-NbN by performing systematic ab initio calculations based on DFT-GGA. The calculated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-03-27 K. Ramesh Babu , Guang-Yu Guo