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We present an ab-initio density-functional-theory approach for calculating electron-phonon interactions within the projector augmented-wave method. The required electron-phonon matrix elements are defined as the second derivative of the…
The quantum anomalous Hall effect, an exotic topological state first theoretically predicted by Haldane and recently experimentally observed, has attracted enormous interest for low-power-consumption electronics. In this work, we derived a…
In the electron-phonon model, the influence of nonmagnetic impurities on the transition temperature of superconductors is revisited. Anderson's pairing condition between time-reversed eigenstate pairs is derived from the physical constraint…
The adiabatic cristal model is offered. It is shown that springy nuclei oscillations relatively electronic envelops and waves of such oscillations (inherent oscillations and waves) may exist in crystals. The analysis of experimental…
We examine the interplay between electron correlations and phonons in an Anderson-Holstein impurity model with an Einstein phonon. When the phonons are slow compared to charge fluctuations (frequency $\omega_0 \ll U/2$, the onsite Coulomb…
A theory for the relaxation rates of a test electron and electron temperature in quantum wires due to deformation, piezoelectric acoustical and polar optical phonon scattering is presented. We represent intra- and inter-subband relaxation…
The effects of thermal diffuse scattering on the transmission and eventual diffraction of highly accelerated electrons are investigated with a method that incorporates the frozen phonon approximation to the exact numerical solution of the…
From a systematic study of thermal and charge transport in various single crystals of compensated topological insulators we identify the evolution of a large low-temperature thermal Hall effect as a characteristic common feature. In order…
Our detailed Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (ARPES) study of $2H$-TaS$_2$, a canonical incommensurate charge density wave (CDW) material, illustrates pronounced many-body renormalization in the system, which is manifested by the…
The influence of the transient thermal effects on the partition of the energy of selfrecoils in germanium and silicon into energy eventually given to electrons and to atomic recoils respectively is studied. The transient effects are treated…
The Debye temperature, T${_\theta}$=(h/2${\pi}$)/k${_B}$$\omega$$_\theta$, where the Debye frequency $\omega$$_\theta$ is integrated characteristic frequency of full phonon spectrum, $\alpha$$^2$($\omega$)F($\omega$). In the BCS theory,…
Thermal fluctuation in magnets will bring temperature-dependent self-energy corrections to the magnons, however, their effects on the topological orders of magnons is not well explored. Here we demonstrate that such corrections can induce a…
Topological phononic insulators are the counterpart of three-dimensional quantum spin Hall insulators in phononic systems and, as such, their topological surfaces are characterized by Dirac cone-shaped gapless edge states arising as a…
Using Hall photovoltage measurements, we demonstrate that an anomalous Hall-voltage can be induced in few layer WTe2 under circularly polarized light illumination. By applying a bias voltage along different crystal axes, we find that the…
We report on the temperature dependence of the dielectric tensor elements of $n$-type conductive $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ from 22$^\circ$C-500$^\circ$C in the spectral range of 1.5~eV--6.4~eV. We present the temperature dependence of the…
An asymptotically exact result is obtained for the renormalized phonon energy as a function of the on-site Coulomb repulsion $U_{ee}$ in the half-filled Hubbard-Holstein model in the strong-coupling region at zero temperature. The result is…
Kohn anomalies are kinks or dips in phonon dispersions which are pronounced in low-dimensional materials. We investigate the effects of non-adiabatic phonon self-energy on Kohn anomalies in one-dimensional metals by developing a model that…
We present a fully ab initio based scheme to compute transport properties, i.e. the electrical conductivity {\sigma} and thermopower S, in the presence of electron-phonon interaction. Therefore, we explicitly investigate the k-dependent…
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…
Combining a precise ab initio electron band structure calculation of the TiO2 rutile structure with the temperature evolution of the Ti mean-square displacements, we reproduce a puzzling temperature increase of the electric field gradient…