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We present the first numerically exact study of a polaron with quadratic coupling to the oscillator displacement, using two alternative methodological developments. Our results cover both anti-adiabatic and adiabatic regimes and the entire…

We propose a mechanism of energy relaxation for carriers confined in a non-polar quantum dot surrounded by an amorphous polar environment. The carrier transitions are due to their interaction with the oscillating electric field induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-08 A. N. Poddubny , S. V. Goupalov , V. I. Kozub , I. N. Yassievich

The calculation of electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling from first principles is a topic of great interest in materials science, offering a robust, non-empirical framework to understand and predict a wide range of physical phenomena. While…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-17 Savio Laricchia , Casey Eichstaedt , Dimitar Pashov , Mark van Schilfgaarde

We calculate the value of the Fr\"ohlich electron-phonon interaction in manganites, cuprates, and some other charge-transfer insulators and show that this interaction is much stronger than any relevant magnetic interaction. A polaron shift…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 A. S. Alexandrov , A. M. Bratkovsky

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…

Unlike the chirality of electrons, the intrinsic chirality of phonons has only surfaced in recent years. Here we report on the effects of the interaction between electrons and chiral phonons in two-dimensional materials by using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-10 Joaquín Medina Dueñas , Hernán L. Calvo , Luis E. F. Foa Torres

In a number of physical situations, from polarons to Dirac liquids and to non-Fermi liquids, one encounters the "beyond quasiparticles" regime, in which the inelastic scattering rate exceeds the thermal energy of quasiparticles. Transport…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-15 Andrey S. Mishchenko , Lode Pollet , Nikolay V. Prokof'ev , Abhishek Kumar , Dmitrii L. Maslov , Naoto Nagaosa

We analyze the results obtained from a model consisting of the interaction etween the electric quadrupole moment of a moving particle and an electric field. We argue that the system does not support bound states because the motion along the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Francisco M. Fernández

Nonequilibrium dynamics of the open chain Holstein-Hubbard model is studied using the linear time-scaling GKBA+ODE scheme developed in the preceeding paper. We focus on the set of parameters relevant for photovoltaic materials, i.\,e., a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-06 Yaroslav Pavlyukh , Enrico Perfetto , Daniel Karlsson , Robert van Leeuwen , Gianluca Stefanucci

The ab-initio theory of charge transport in semiconductors typically employs the lowest-order perturbation theory in which electrons interact with one phonon (1ph). This theory is accepted to be adequate to explain the low-field mobility of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-08 Benjamin Hatanpää , Alexander Y. Choi , Peishi S. Cheng , Austin J. Minnich

In polar semiconductors and oxides, the long-range nature of the electron-phonon (\textit{e}-ph) interaction is a bottleneck to compute charge transport from first principles. Here, we develop an efficient ab initio scheme to compute and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-07 Jin-Jian Zhou , Marco Bernardi

We generalize the Wannier interpolation of the electron-phonon matrix elements to the case of polar-optical coupling in polar semiconductors. We verify our methodological developments against experiments, by calculating the widths of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-30 J. Sjakste , N. Vast , M. Calandra , F. Mauri

Multiphonon processes in a model quantum dot (QD) containing two electronic states and several optical phonon modes are considered taking into account both intra- and inter-level terms. The Hamiltonian is exactly diagonalized including a…

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In systems with linear electron-phonon interaction (EPI), bound states of polarons, or bipolarons, form by gaining energy from the lattice deformation. The quadratic EPI case is fundamentally different: bipolarons form because electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-14 Zhongjin Zhang , Anatoly Kuklov , Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

We study the interplay between long-range electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions in electrostatically doped two-dimensional semiconductors, including interlayer couplings in van der Waals heterostructures. We evaluate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Francesco Macheda , Thibault Sohier

Electron-phonon coupling, diagonal in a real space formulation, leads to polaron paradigm of smoothly varying properties. However, fundamental changes, namely the singular behavior of polarons, occur if non-diagonal pairing is involved into…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-11 E. I. Shneyder , S. V. Nikolaev , M. V. Zotova , R. A. Kaldin , S. G. Ovchinnikov

Electron-phonon ($e$-ph) interactions are pervasive in condensed matter, governing phenomena such as transport, superconductivity, charge-density waves, polarons and metal-insulator transitions. First-principles approaches enable accurate…

We study the effect of doping on the electron-phonon interaction and on the phonon frequencies in doped semiconductors, taking into account the screening in presence of free carriers at finite temperature. We study the impact of screening…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-10 Francesco Macheda , Paolo Barone , Francesco Mauri

The electronic self-energy is studied for a two dimensional electron gas coupled to a spin-orbit Rashba field and interacting with dispersionless phonons. For the case of a momentum independent electron-phonon coupling (Holstein model) we…

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