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While many physical properties of graphene can be understood qualitatively on the basis of bare Dirac bands, there is specific evidence that electron-electron (EE) and electron-phonon (EP) interactions can also play an important role. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 J. P. F. LeBlanc , Jungseek Hwang , J. P. Carbotte

Investigation of the electron-phonon interaction (EPI) in LaCuSb2 and La(Cu0.8Ag0.2)Sb2 compounds by Yanson point-contact spectroscopy (PCS) has been carried out. Point-contact spectra display a pronounced broad maximum in the range of…

We report the computation of the Standard Hamiltonian of a coupled electron-phonon system by accurately computing the electron-phonon interaction (EPI) contribution to the total energy. This gives the most accurate ab initio total energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-25 Shilpa Paul , M. P. Gururajan , Amrita Bhattacharya , T. R. S. Prasanna

In the past five years enormous progress has been made in the ab initio calculations of the optical response of electrons in semiconductors. The calculations include the Coulomb interaction between the excited electron and the hole left…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 Manuel Cardona

We present a first principle study of the electron-phonon (e-p) interaction at the Be(0001) surface. The real and imaginary part of the e-p self energy are calculated for the surface state in the binding energy range from the $\bar{\Gamma}$…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Eiguren , S. de Gironcoli , E. V. Chulkov , P. M. Echenique , E. Tosatti

We introduce a methodology and investigate the feasibility of measuring quantum properties of tau lepton pairs in the $H \to \tau^+ \tau^-$ decay at future lepton colliders. In particular, observation of entanglement, steerability and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-15 Mohammad Mahdi Altakach , Priyanka Lamba , Fabio Maltoni , Kentarou Mawatari , Kazuki Sakurai

The electron-phonon(e-p) interaction in Pentacene (Pn) films grown on Bi(001) was investigated using photoemission spectroscopy. The spectra reveal thermal broadening from which we determine an e-p mass enhancement factor of lambda = 0.36…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-28 Richard C. Hatch , David L. Huber , Hartmut Höchst

The point-contact spectra of tetragonal $\rm YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-\delta}$ with $T_c=50-60~K$ are studied at various temperatures. The single-electron energy ($2\Delta_0/kT_c\simeq 17$) and its temperature dependence are determined. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-03 I. K. Yanson , L. F. Rybal'chenko , V. V. Fisun , N. L. Bobrov , V. V. Demirskii , V. V. Mitkevich

On the basis of the nonequilibrium Green's function and nonperturbative canonical transformation for the local electron-phonon interaction (EPI), the quantum transport through a single-molecule transistor(SMT) has been investigated with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Zuo-Zi Chen , Rong Lü , Bang-fen Zhu

To understand the pressure-induced changes in the electronic structure and the electron-phonon interaction in yttrium, we have studied hexagonal close-packed (hcp) yttrium, stable at ambient pressure and double hexagonal close-packed (dhcp)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Prabhakar P. Singh

He atom scattering has been demonstrated to be a sensitive probe of the electron-phonon interaction parameter $\lambda$ at metal and metal-overlayer surfaces. Here it is shown that the theory linking $\lambda$ to the thermal attenuation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-26 G. Benedek , S. Miret-Artés , J. R. Manson , A. Ruckhofer , W. E. Ernst , A. Tamtögl

We propose a fully $ \textit{ab initio} $ approach to predicting thermal attenuation in elastic helium atom scattering amplitudes, validated through strong agreement with experiments on Nb(100) and (3$\times$1)-O/Nb(100) surfaces. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-17 Cristóbal Méndez , C. J. Thompson , M. F. Van Duinen , S. J. Sibener , Tomás A. Arias

Strong electron-electron interactions are known to significantly modify the electron-phonon coupling relative to the predictions of density functional theory, but this effect is challenging to calculate with realistic theories of strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-21 David J. Abramovitch , Jennifer Coulter , Sophie Beck , Andrew Millis

The recovering procedure of the electron-phonon interaction (EPI) functions from the additional nonlinearities of the current-voltage curve ($I-V$ curve) of point contacts associated with an excess current is considered. The approach…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-03 N. L. Bobrov

The aim of this study was to determine the strengths of the coupling of electrons with the polar long-wavelength transverse optical (TO) vibrations from infrared spectroscopy data. This determination is made by means of a simple…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Aleksandr Pishtshev

Using a controlled analytic treatment, we derive a model that generically describes cooperative strong electron-phonon interaction (EPI) in one-band and two-band Jahn-Teller (JT) systems. The model involves a {\em next-nearest-neighbor}…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-03-04 Sudhakar Yarlagadda

Photoemission and phonon spectroscopies have yielded widely varying estimates of the electron-phonon coupling constant \lambda\ on the surfaces of topological insulators, even for a particular material and technique. We connect the results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-27 Colin Howard , M. El-Batanouny

We show that the electron-phonon coupling (EPC) in many materials can be significantly underestimated by the standard density functional theory (DFT) in the local density approximation (LDA) due to large non-local correlation effects. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-02 Z. P. Yin , A. Kutepov , G. Kotliar

Quantum entanglement and Bell-inequality violation in $\tau^+\tau^-$ pairs provide a sensitive probe of quantum correlations in high-energy interactions. We present a feasibility study of $e^+e^- \to \tau^+\tau^-$ at the proposed Super…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-05 Xiaokang Li , Chentao Bao , Hai Chen , Mingyi Liu , Dayong Wang

Electron-phonon interactions (EPIs) represent a fundamental cornerstone of condensed matter physics, commanding persistent attention due to their pivotal role in driving novel quantum phenomena within low-dimensional materials. Here, we…