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Recently there has been an accumulation of experimental evidence in the high temperature superconductors suggesting the relevance of electron-phonon coupling in these materials. These findings challenge some well-held beliefs of what…
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An efficient basis set for products of all-electron wave functions is proposed, which comprises plane waves defined over the entire unit cell and orbitals confined to small non-overlapping spheres. The size of the set and the basis…
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