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The method of the space dependent basis is applied to study electronic spinors in a crystal. The crystal in the momentum space is described by the Brillouine zone which might contains obstructions or degeneracies for which requires…

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Resonance Raman scattering, a very effective and sensitive technique for atomically thin semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide, can be used to observe the phonons from the entire Brillouin zone. In addition to the significance of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-06 Deepu Kumar , Nasaru Khan , Rahul Kumar , Mahesh Kumar , Pradeep Kumar

Frequency- and time-domain Brillouin scattering spectroscopy are powerful tools to read out the mechanical properties of complex systems in material and life sciences. Indeed, coherent acoustic phonons in the time-domain method offer…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-06 Ayumu Ishijima , Shinga Okabe , Ichiro Sakuma , Keiichi Nakagawa

Atomic undercoordination, charge injection, mechanical and thermal activation mediate the properties of a material intrinsically by bond relaxation from one equilibrium to another while the phonon spectrometrics probes the ever-unexpected…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-08 Chang Q Sun

Phonon frequencies at {\Gamma},X,M,R-points of Brilloin zone in cubic phase of Ba(Ti,Zr,Hf)O3 were first time calculated by frozen phonon method using density functional theory (DFT) with hybrid exchange correlation functional PBE0. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-07 Robert A Evaestov

Digital video-microscopy measurements are reported of both elastic bandstructures and overdamped phonon decay times in two-dimensional colloidal crystals. Both quantities together allow to determine the friction coefficients along various…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-05-13 Joerg Baumgartl , Julian Dietrich , Jure Dobnikar , Clemens Bechinger , Hans Hennig von Gruenberg

We present a computational study of the phonon linewidths in twisted bilayer graphene arising from electron-phonon interactions and anharmonic effects. The electronic structure is calculated using distance-dependent transfer integrals based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Shinjan Mandal , Indrajit Maity , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain

The electron-phonon interaction contribution to the electronic energies is included in density functional total energy calculations with ab initio pseudopotentials via the Allen formalism [Phys. Rev. B 18, 5217 (1978)] to obtain temperature…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-21 Vaishali Shah , Bhavik Sanghavi , Rahul Ramchandani , M. P. Gururajan , T. R. S. Prasanna

Longitudinal optical phonons with oxygen character were measured in La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO_3 by inelastic neutron scattering in the (1 0 0) cubic direction and results were compared with shell model predictions. Measurements were performed in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Reznik , W. Reichardt

The past years have witnessed impressive advances in electronic structure calculation, especially in the complexity and size of the systems studied, as well as in computation time. Linear scaling methods based on empirical tight-binding…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Abduxukur Abdurixit , Alexis Baratoff , Giulia Galli

The phonon dispersion unfolding method is useful for obtaining hidden Bloch symmetries and comparing theoretical results with experiment spectrums (e.g., inelastic neutron scattering, inelastic X-ray scattering, Raman). In this paper, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-13 Fawei Zheng , Ping Zhang

We develop a low-energy continuum model for phonons in twisted moir\'e bilayers, based on a configuration-space approach. In this approach, interatomic force constants are obtained from density functional theory (DFT) calculations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Jonathan Z. Lu , Ziyan Zhu , Mattia Angeli , Daniel T. Larson , Efthimios Kaxiras

The calculations of electronic transport coefficients and optical properties require a very dense interpolation of the electronic band structure in reciprocal space that is computationally expensive and may have issues with band crossing…

We present Phonon Unfolding, a Fortran90 program for unfolding phonon dispersions. It unfolds phonon dispersions by using a generalized projection algorithm, which can be used to any kind of atomic systems in principle. Thus our present…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-17 Fawei Zheng , Ping Zhang

We study the dielectric function of CuBr$_\mathrm{x}$I$_{1-\mathrm{x}}$ thin film alloys using spectroscopic ellipsometry in the spectral range between 0.7 eV to 6.4 eV, in combination with first-principles calculations based on density…

Ab initio based accurate simulation of phonon-assisted optical spectra of semiconductors at finite temperatures remains a formidable challenge, as it requires large supercells for phonon sampling and computationally expensive high-accuracy…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-07 Qiangqiang Gu , Shishir Kumar Pandey , Zhanghao Zhouyin

We develop a mathematical and numerical framework for studying evanescent waves in subwavelength band gap materials. By establishing a link between the complex Brillouin zone and various Hermitian and non-Hermitian phenomena, including…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Yannick De Bruijn , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen

Engineering of phonons, i.e., collective lattice vibrations in crystals, is essential for manipulating physical properties of materials such as thermal transport, electron-phonon interaction, confinement of lattice vibration, and optical…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-04 Seung Gyo Jeong , Ambrose Seo , Woo Seok Choi

In the realm of thermal expansion determination, the quasiharmonic approximation (QHA) stands as a widely embraced method for discerning minima of free energies across diverse temperatures such that the temperature dependence of lattice…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-12 Samare Rostami , Xavier Gonze

Optical and transport properties of materials depend heavily upon features of electronic band structures in proximity to energy extrema in the Brillouin zone (BZ). Such features are generally described in terms of multi-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-29 Nicholas A. Mecholsky , Lorenzo Resca , Ian L. Pegg , Marco Fornari