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Looking for superconductors with higher transition temperature requires a guiding principle. In conventional superconductors, electrons pair up into Cooper pairs via the retarded attraction mediated by electron-phonon coupling.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-11 Da Wang , Wan-Sheng Wang , Qiang-Hua Wang

We present a first-principles study of the temperature- and density-dependent intrinsic electrical resistivity of graphene. We use density-functional theory and density-functional perturbation theory together with very accurate Wannier…

The mechanisms for strong electron-phonon coupling predicted for hydrogen-rich alloys with high superconducting critical temperature ($T_c$) are examined within the Migdal-Eliashberg theory. Analysis of the functional derivative of $T_c$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-28 K. Tanaka , J. S. Tse , H. Liu

Electron valleys in transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers drive novel physics and allow designing multifunctional architectures for applications. We propose to manipulate the electron valleys in these systems for spin/valley filter and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Ao Zhang , Kaike Yang , Yun Zhang , Anlian Pan , Mingxing Chen

Transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers and heterostructures are highly tunable material systems that provide excellent models for physical phenomena at the two-dimensional (2D) limit. While most studies to date have focused on electrons…

We study the role of the superconducting proximity effect on the electron-phonon energy exchange in diffusive normal metals (N) attached to superconductors (S). The proximity effect modifies the spectral response of the normal metal, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-16 T. T. Heikkila , F. Giazotto

Electron-electron interactions in general lead to both ground state and excited state confinement. We show, however, that in phenyl-substituted polyacetylenes electron-electron interactions cause enhanced delocalization of quasiparticles in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Haranath Ghosh , Alok Shukla , Sumit Mazumdar

We systematically study the impact of various electron-acoustic-phonon coupling mechanisms on valley physics in two-dimensional materials. In the static strain limit, we find that Dirac cone tilt and deformation potential have analogous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Wen-Yu Shan

The effect of electron-phonon interactions in the conductance through metallic atomic wires is theoretically analyzed. The proposed model allows to consider an atomic size region electrically and mechanically coupled to bulk electrodes. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. de la Vega , A. Martin-Rodero , N. Agrait , A. Levy Yeyati

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

Photoemission studies of graphene have resulted in a long-standing controversy concerning the strength of the experimental electron-phonon interaction in comparison with theoretical calculations. Using high-resolution angle-resolved…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 David A. Siegel , Choongyu Hwang , Alexi V. Fedorov , Alessandra Lanzara

We present the results of Quantum Monte Carlo calculations for a two dimensional frustrated Hubbard model coupled to bond phonons. The model is known to have a d-wave superconducting ground state in the limit of large phonon frequency for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-08 R. T. Clay , D. Roy

We investigate the role of long-range Coulomb interactions in $M$-valley moir\'es using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. This platform was recently proposed [Nature 643, 376 (2025) and arXiv:2411.18828 (2024)] as a new class…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Christophe De Beule , Liangtao Peng , E. J. Mele , Shaffique Adam

We show that the electron-phonon coupling in graphene, in contrast with the non-relativistic two-dimensional electron gas, leads to shifts in the phonon frequencies that are non-trivial functions of the electronic density. These shifts can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 A. H. Castro Neto , Francisco Guinea

We present a simple model for the electron-phonon interactions between the energy subbands in polyacene field-effect transistors and the vibrations of the crystal. We introduce a generalized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, arguing that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-16 Jairo Sinova , Alvaro Núñez , John Schliemann , A. H. MacDonald

Electron-phonon coupling (EPC) is key for understanding many properties of materials such as superconductivity and electric resistivity. Although first principles density-functional-theory (DFT) based EPC calculations are used widely, their…

Ultrafast thermal transport in low-dimensional materials challenges traditional diffusive models due to reduced scattering, strong electron-phonon coupling, and pronounced non-equilibrium effects. To address these complexities, we extend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Houssem Rezgui , Chuang Zhang , Clivia Sotomayor-Torres

We investigate the dynamical effects of electron-phonon coupling (EPC) on the superconducting properties of two-dimensional (2D) systems, calculating the Eliashberg function in terms of dynamically renormalized phonons. By studying…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-29 Juraj Krsnik , Dino Novko , Osor Slaven Barišić

Using the Boltzmann equation for electrons in metals, we show that the optical phonons soften and have a dispersion due to screening in agreement with the results reported recently [M. Reizer, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 61}, 40 (2000)]. Additional…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 L. A. Falkovsky

The electron-phonon vertex correction has a complex structure both in momentum and frequency. We explain this structure on the basis of physical considerations and we show how the vertex correction can be decomposed into two terms with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Grimaldi , L. Pietronero , M. Scattoni