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Positional polymorphism in solids refers to locally disordered unit cells that, on average, reproduce the high-symmetry structures observed in diffraction experiments. Standard theories of electron-phonon interactions fail to describe the…

Using harmonic and anharmonic force constants extracted from density-functional calculations within a supercell, we have developed a relatively simple but general method to compute thermodynamic and thermal properties of any crystal. First,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Keivan Esfarjani , Gang Chen , Harold T. Stokes

We present an accurate and efficient formulation for the calculation of phonons in real-space Kohn-Sham density functional theory. Specifically, employing a local exchange-correlation functional, norm-conserving pseudopotential in the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-30 Abhiraj Sharma , Phanish Suryanarayana

Phonons play a critical role in determining various material properties, but conventional methods for phonon calculations are computationally intensive, limiting their broad applicability. In this study, we present an approach to accelerate…

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More than a century after discovery, the theory of conventional superconductivity remains incomplete. While the importance of electron-phonon coupling is understood, a controlled first-principles treatment of Coulomb interaction is lacking.…

This work provides the community with an easily executable open-source Python package designed to automize the evaluation of Interfacial Phonons (InterPhon). Its strategy of arbitrarily defining the interfacial region and periodicity…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-20 In Won Yeu , Gyuseung Han , Kun Hee Ye , Cheol Seong Hwang , Jung-Hae Choi

Little groups for preon branes (i.e. configurations of branes with maximal (n-1)/n fraction of survived supersymmetry) for dimensions d=2,3,...,11 are calculated for all massless, and partially for massive orbits. For massless orbits little…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Mkrtchyan , R. Mkrtchyan

The abundance of infrared singularities in gauge theories due to unresolved emission of massless particles (soft and collinear) represents the main difficulty in perturbative calculations. They are typically regularized in dimensional…

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Invariant theory provides more efficient tools, such as Molien generating functions and integrity bases, than basic group theory, that relies on projector techniques for the construction of symmetry--adapted polynomials in the symmetry…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-07-15 Patrick Cassam-Chenaï , Guillaume Dhont , Frédéric Patras

We unify the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), discrete cosine transform (DCT), Walsh-Hadamard, Haar wavelet, Karhunen-Lo\`eve transform, and several others along with their continuous counterparts (Fourier transform, Fourier series,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Mitchell A. Thornton

In this paper, the second in a series of two, we complete the derivation of the lowest-order wave function of a dimensional perturbation theory (DPT) treatment for the N-body quantum-confined system. Taking advantage of the symmetry of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Dunn , D. K. Watson , J. G. Loeser

Motivated by experiments, we performed a systematic study on the one dimensional zone center phonons in $O_{h}$ space groups. All the one dimensional phonon modes for different Wyckoff positions are tabulated. We show that at least four…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-05 Jian Li , Jiufeng J. Tu , Joseph L. Birman

Invariant inference algorithms such as interpolation-based inference and IC3/PDR show that it is feasible, in practice, to find inductive invariants for many interesting systems, but non-trivial upper bounds on the computational complexity…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Yotam M. Y. Feldman , Sharon Shoham

Traditional approaches to combination tones based on Helmholtz theory encounter essential interpreting difficulties, which the most known example is the anomalous behaviour of the combination tone 2f1-f2. Without doubt the phenomenon of…

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For dyons in heterotic string theory compactified on a six-torus, with electric charge vector Q and magnetic charge vector P, the positive integer I = g.c.d.(Q \wedge P) is an invariant of the U-duality group. We propose the microscopic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-23 Atish Dabholkar , Joao Gomes , Sameer Murthy

We present a perturbative method for calculating phonon properties of an insulator in the presence of a finite electric field. The starting point is a variational total-energy functional with a field-coupling term that represents the effect…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-12-17 Xinjie Wang , David Vanderbilt

Bi2O2Se belongs to a group of quasi-2D semiconductors that can replace silicon in future high-speed/low-power electronics. However, the correlation between crystal/band structure and other physical properties still eludes understanding:…

This paper presents an immersed boundary (IB) method for fluid--structure--acoustics interactions involving large deformations and complex geometries. In this method, the fluid dynamics is solved by a finite difference method where the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-20 Li Wang , Fang-Bao Tian , Joseph C. S. Lai

We introduce a unified approach to states of matter (solid, liquid and gas) and describe the thermodynamics of the pressure-temperature phase diagram in terms of phonon excitations. We derive the effective Hamiltonian with low-energy cutoff…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-23 Dima Bolmatov , Dmitry Zavyalov , Mikhail Zhernenkov , Edvard T. Musaev , Yong Q. Cai

A recently developed linear algebraic method for the computation of perturbation expansion coefficients to large order is applied to the problem of a hydrogenic atom in a magnetic field. We take as the zeroth order approximation the $D…

chem-ph · Physics 2009-10-22 Timothy C. Germann , Dudley R. Herschbach , Bruce M. Boghosian