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We investigate the excitation of phonons in photoexcited antimony and demonstrate that the entire electron-lattice interactions, in particular coherent and incoherent electron-phonon coupling, can be probed simultaneously. Using femtosecond…

Covalent-organic frameworks (COFs) are intriguing platforms for designing functional molecular materials. Here, we present a computational study based on van der Waals dispersion-corrected hybrid density functional theory calculations to…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-09 Srimanta Pakhira , Kevin P. Lucht , Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes

On flat bands of the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, exotic correlation physics unfolds. Phonons, through mediating an effective electron-electron interaction, can play a crucial role in selecting various electronic phases. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-03 Yi-Jie Wang , Geng-Dong Zhou , Biao Lian , Zhi-Da Song

In compound semiconductors and insulators, the polar electron-phonon coupling diverges at long range, known as the Fr\"ohlich interaction. Modern first-principles electron-phonon calculations treat the Fr\"ohlich interaction in a…

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…

We study the interplay between the electron-phonon (e-ph) and on-site electron-electron (e-e) interactions in a three-orbital Hubbard-Holstein model on an extended one-dimensional lattice using determinant quantum Monte Carlo. For weak e-e…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-11 Shaozhi Li , Yanfei Tang , Thomas A. Maier , Steven Johnston

We use the renormalization group method to examine the effect of phonon mediated interaction on d-wave superconductivity, as driven by spin fluctuations in a quasi-one-dimensional electron system. The influence of a tight-binding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-15 Hassan Bakrim , Claude Bourbonnais

We present a first-principles study of the electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions and their contributions to the linewidths for the optical phonon modes at $\Gamma$ and K in one to three-layer graphene. It is found that due to the interlayer…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-03-31 Jia-An Yan , W. Y. Ruan , M. Y. Chou

The paper reports on a study of electron-phonon interaction within a limited nanosized region. We invoked the modified Fr\"{o}hlich's Hamiltonian to calculate the electron self-energy, as well as the elastic and inelastic scattering cross…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 K. V. Reich

We apply standard, first-principles calculations to a complete treatment of lattice dynamics in the harmonic approximation. The algorithm makes use of the straightforward ``frozen-phonon'' approach to the calculation of vibrational spectra…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Hadley M. Lawler , Eric K. Chang , Eric L. Shirley

Phonons play a key role in the physical properties of materials, and have long been a topic of study in physics. While the effects of phonons had historically been considered to be a hindrance, modern research has shown that phonons can be…

By means of first-principles calculations, we investigate the role of electron-phonon interaction in the electronic structure of hybrid interfaces, formed by MoS$_2$ and monolayers of the organic molecules pyrene and pyridine, respectively.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-11 Ignacio Gonzalez Oliva , Sebastian Tillack , Fabio Caruso , Pasquale Pavone , Claudia Draxl

Polaron spectral functions are computed for highly doped graphene-on-substrate and other atomically thin graphitic systems using the diagrammatic Monte Carlo technique. The specific aim is to investigate the effects of interaction on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-30 J. P. Hague

In this work, using two distinct semiclassical approaches, namely the mean-field Ehrenfest (MFE) method and the mapping approach to surface hopping (MASH), we investigate the spectral function of a single charge interacting with phonons on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Haimi Nguyen , Arkajit Mandal , Ankit Mahajan , David R. Reichman

Coupling between electrons and phonons (lattice vibrations) drives the formation of the electron pairs responsible for conventional superconductivity. The lack of direct evidence for electron-phonon coupling in the electron dynamics of the…

Knowledge of lattice anharmonicity is essential to elucidate distinctive thermal properties in crystalline solids. Yet, accurate \textit{ab initio} investigations of lattice anharmonicity encounter difficulties owing to the cumbersome…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-13 Zhen Zhang , Dong-Bo Zhang , Tao Sun , Renata M. Wentzcovitch

The strength of the electron-phonon coupling parameter and its evolution throughout a solid's phase diagram often determines phenomena such as superconductivity, charge- and spin-density waves. Its experimental determination relies on the…

The relative importance of electron-lattice (e-l) and electron-electron (e-e) interactions in ordering orbitals in LaMnO$_3$ is systematically examined within the LDA+$U$ approximation of density functional theory. A realistic effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Wei-Guo Yin , Dmitri Volja , Wei Ku

The role of electron-phonon interactions is experimentally and theoretically investigated near the saddle point absorption peak of graphene. The differential optical transmission spectra of multiple, non-interacting layers of graphene…

The naturally weak spin-orbit coupling in Graphene can be largely enhanced by adatom deposition (e.g. Weeks et al. Phys. Rev. X 1, 021001 (2011)). However, the dynamics of the adatoms also induces a coupling between phonons and the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Jhih-Shih You , Daw-Wei Wang , Miguel A. Cazalilla