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EPW is an open-source software for $\textit{ab initio}$ calculations of electron-phonon interactions and related materials properties. The code combines density functional perturbation theory and maximally-localized Wannier functions to…

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…

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First-principles calculations of electron interactions in materials have seen rapid progress in recent years, with electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions being a prime example. However, these techniques use large matrices encoding the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-11 Yao Luo , Dhruv Desai , Benjamin K. Chang , Jinsoo Park , Marco Bernardi

Modeling spin-wave (magnon) dynamics in novel materials is important to advance spintronics and spin-based quantum technologies. The interactions between magnons and lattice vibrations (phonons) limit the length scale for magnon transport.…

The theory of the interaction of electrons with acoustic phonons in multilayer nitride-based AlN/GaN nanostructures was developed for the first time at $T\geqslant 0$ using the method of finite-temperature Green's functions and Dyson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 I. V. Boyko , M. R. Petryk

To investigate the possibility whether electron-phonon coupling can enhance orbital fluctuations in iron-based superconductors, we develop an ab initio method to construct the effective low-energy models including the phonon-related terms.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-01-20 Yusuke Nomura , Kazuma Nakamura , Ryotaro Arita

Polarons are composite quasiparticles formed by excess charges and the accompanying lattice distortions in solids, and play a critical role in transport, optical, and catalytic properties of semiconductors and insulators. The standard…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Zhenbang Dai , Donghwan Kim , Jon Lafuente-Bartolome , Feliciano Giustino

The monolayer of black phosphorous, or phosphorene, has recently emerged as a new 2D semiconductor with intriguing highly anisotropic transport properties. Existing calculations of its intrinsic phonon-limited electronic transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 Bolin Liao , Jiawei Zhou , Bo Qiu , Mildred S. Dresselhaus , Gang Chen

From ultraviolet to mid-infrared region, light-matter interaction mechanisms in semiconductors progressively shift from electronic transitions to phononic resonances and are affected by temperature. Here, we present a parallel…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-01 Zherui Han , Changkyun Lee , Jiawei Song , Haiyan Wang , Peter Bermel , Xiulin Ruan

Structural phase transitions and soft phonon modes pose a longstanding challenge to computing electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions in strongly anharmonic crystals. Here we develop a first-principles approach to compute e-ph scattering and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-04 Jin-Jian Zhou , Olle Hellman , Marco Bernardi

We present a computational protocol, based on density matrix perturbation theory, to obtain non-adiabatic, frequency-dependent electron-phonon self-energies for molecules and solids. Our approach enables the evaluation of electron-phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-09 Han Yang , Marco Govoni , Arpan Kundu , Giulia Galli

Ab initio techniques have revolutionised the way in which theory can help practitioners to explore critical mechanisms that govern reactions or properties, and to develop new strategies for materials discovery and design. Yet, their…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-03 Mira Todorova , Stefan Wippermann , Jörg Neugebauer

Electron-phonon coupling (EPC) is fundamental for understanding the behavior of molecules and crystals, influencing phenomena such as charge transport, energy transfer, phase transitions, and polaron formation. Accurate computational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Konrad Merkel , Maximilian F. X. Dorfner , Manuel Engel , Georg Kresse , Frank Ortmann

The Hubbard-Holstein model is a simple model including both electron-phonon interaction and electron-electron correlations. We review a body of theoretical work investigating the effects of strong correlations on the electron-phonon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-20 M. Capone , C. Castellani , M. Grilli

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 $\bar{\Gamma}$…

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The properties of excitons, or correlated electron-hole pairs, are of paramount importance to optoelectronic applications of materials. A central component of exciton physics is the electron-hole interaction, which is commonly treated as…

Spin qubits associated with color centers are promising platforms for various quantum technologies. However, to be deployed in robust quantum devices, the variations of their intrinsic properties with the external conditions, and in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 Hao Tang , Ariel Rebekah Barr , Guoqing Wang , Paola Cappellaro , Ju Li

Phonon plays essential roles in dynamical behaviors and thermal properties, which are central topics in fundamental issues of materials science. The importance of first principles phonon calculations cannot be overly emphasized. Phonopy is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-30 Atsushi Togo , Isao Tanaka

Electron-electron ($e$-$e$) and electron-phonon ($e$-ph) interactions are challenging to describe in correlated materials, where their joint effects govern unconventional transport, phase transitions, and superconductivity. Here we combine…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-05 David J. Abramovitch , Jin-Jian Zhou , Jernej Mravlje , Antoine Georges , Marco Bernardi

Ultrafast laser measurements probe the non-equilibrium dynamics of excited electrons in metals with increasing temporal resolution. Electronic structure calculations can provide a detailed microscopic understanding of hot electron dynamics,…

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