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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…

The electronic structure of condensed matter can be significantly affected by the electron-phonon interaction, leading to important phenomena such as electrical resistance, superconductivity or the formation of polarons. This interaction is…

The electron-phonon Wannier interpolation (EPWI) method is an efficient way to compute the properties of electron-phonon interactions (EPIs) accurately. This study presents a GPU-accelerated implementation of the EPWI method for computing…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-08 Zhe Liu , Bo Zhang , Zheyong Fan , Wu Li

The main goal of electronic structure methods is to solve the Schroedinger equation for the electrons in a molecule or solid, to evaluate the resulting total energies, forces, response functions and other quantities of interest. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 Peter E. Blöchl , Johannes Kaestner , Clemens J. Foerst

The ability to control phonons in solids is key for diverse quantum applications, ranging from quantum information processing to sensing. Often, phonons are sources of noise and decoherence, since they can interact with a variety of…

The matrix elements of the deformation potential of C$_{70}$ are calculated by means of a simple, yet accurate solution of the electron-phonon coupling problem in fullerenes, based on a parametrization of the ground state electronic density…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Provasi , N. Breda , R. A. Broglia , G. Colo` , H. E. Roman , G. Onida

Tailoring the properties of correlated oxides is accomplished by chemical doping, pressure, temperature or magnetic field. Photoexcitation is a valid alternative to reach out-of-equilibrium states otherwise inaccessible. Here, we…

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

\textit{Ab initio} calculations of electron-phonon interactions including the polar Fr\"ohlich coupling have advanced considerably in recent years. The Fr\"ohlich electron-phonon matrix element is by now well understood in the case of bulk…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-16 Weng Hong Sio , Feliciano Giustino

Electron-phonon interaction (EPI) is presumably detrimental for thermoelectric performance in semiconductors because it limits carrier mobility. Here we show that enhanced EPI with strong energy dependence offers an intrinsic pathway to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-06 Yi Xia , Junsoo Park , Vidvuds Ozoliņš , Chris Wolverton

We analyze the effects of an electron-phonon interaction on the one-electron spectral weight A(k,omega) of a d_{x^2-y^2} superconductor. We study the case of an Einstein phonon mode with various momentum-dependent electron-phonon couplings…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. W. Sandvik , D. J. Scalapino , N. E. Bickers

The origin of charge density wave (CDW) is a long-term open issue. Furthermore, the evolution of phonon-phonon interactions (PPI) across CDW transitions has rarely been investigated. Besides, whether electron-phonon coupling (EPC) would be…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-03 Shize Cao , Feng Jin , Jianzhou Zhao , Yun-Ze Long , Jianlin Luo , Qingming Zhang , Zhi-Guo Chen

A controversial issue on whether the electron-phonon interaction (EPI) is crucial for high-temperature superconductivity or it is weak and inessential has remained one of the most challenging problems of contemporary condensed matter…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 A. S. Alexandrov , A. M. Bratkovsky

Electron-phonon coupling is a key interaction that governs diverse physical processes such as carrier transport, superconductivity, and optical absorption. Calculating such interactions from first-principles with methods beyond…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-21 Aleksandr Poliukhin , Nicola Colonna , Francesco Libbi , Samuel Poncé , Nicola Marzari

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

A recently developed renormalization approach is used to study the electron-phonon coupling in many-electron systems. By starting from an Hamiltonian which includes a small gauge symmetry breaking field, we directly derive a BCS-like…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Huebsch , K. W. Becker

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

The electron-phonon coupling (EPC) is a ubiquitous interaction in condensed systems and plays a vital role in shaping the electronic properties of materials. Yet, achieving coherent manipulation of electron-phonon coupling has posed a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-13 Jicai Zhang , Tien-Dat Tran , Ziwen Wang , Wenhao Yu , Chong Zhang , Marcus Lo , Wenqi Xu , Tran Trung Luu

The renormalization of the band structure at zero temperature due to electron-phonon coupling is investigated in diamond, BN, LiF and MgO crystals. We implement a dynamical scheme to compute the frequency-dependent self-energy and the…

We propose an adaptive planewave method for eigenvalue problems in electronic structure calculations. The method combines a priori convergence rates and accurate a posteriori error estimates into an effective way of updating the energy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Beilei Liu , Huajie Chen , Geneviève Dusson , Jun Fang , Xingyu Gao