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Electron and phonon correlations in systems of one-dimensional electrons coupled to phonons are studied at low temperatures by emphasizing on the effect of electron-phonon backward scattering. It is found that the $2k_F$-wave components of…

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We determined electronic relaxation times via pump-probe optical spectroscopy using sub-15 fs pulses for the normal state of two different cuprate superconductors.We show that the primary relaxation process is the electron-phonon…

The phonon-mode decomposition of the electron-phonon coupling in the MgB2-like system Li_{1-x}BC is explored using first principles calculations. It is found that the high temperature superconductivity of such systems results from extremely…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. An , S. Y. Savrasov , H. Rosner , W. E. Pickett

We investigate quantum corrections to the conductivity due to the interference of electron-electron (electron-phonon) scattering and elastic electron scattering in weakly disordered conductors. The electron-electron interaction results in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Sergeev , M. Yu. Reizer , V. Mitin

We present a comprehensive theoretical treatment of the effect of electron-phonon interactions in molecular transistors, including both quantal and classical limits and we study both equilibrated and out of equilibrium phonons. We present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Mitra , I. Aleiner , A. J. Millis

A nonperturbative dynamical coupling approach based on tight-binding molecular dynamics is used to evaluate the electron-ion (electron-phonon) coupling parameter in irradiated semiconductors as a function of the electronic temperature up to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-25 Nikita Medvedev

Nonequilibrium electronic transport through a molecular level weakly coupled to a single coherent phonon/vibration mode has been studied for superconducting leads. The Keldysh Green function formalism is used to compute the current for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Zazunov , R. Egger , C. Mora , T. Martin

In conventional superconductors, the electron-phonon coupling plays a dominant role in pairing the electrons and generating superconductivity. In high temperature cuprate superconductors, the existence of the electron coupling with phonons…

Relying on the anharmonic special displacement method, we introduce an ab initio quasistatic polymorphous framework to describe local disorder, anharmonicity, and electron-phonon coupling in superionic conductors. Using the example of cubic…

Thermal engineering of quantum devices has attracted much attention since the discovery of quantized thermal conductance of phonons. Although easily submerged in numerous excitations in macro-systems, quantum behaviors of phonons manifest…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-02 Xiaobin Chen , Yizhou Liu , Wenhui Duan

The theory of the interaction of electrons with acoustic phonons in multilayer nitride-based AlN/GaN nanostructures was developed for the first time at $T\geqslant 0$ using the method of finite-temperature Green's functions and Dyson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 I. V. Boyko , M. R. Petryk

We revisit the problem of point-contact tunnel junctions involving one-dimensional superconductors and present a simple scheme for computing the full current-voltage characteristics within the framework of the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 C. J. Bolech , T. Giamarchi

We present a comprehensive first-principles investigation of a hypothetical cubic Pm-3m phase of the ternary hydride NaAlH3, focusing on its lattice dynamics, electronic structure, and electron-phonon-mediated superconducting properties at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-27 Izabela A. Wrona , Yinwei Li , Radoslaw Szczesniak , Artur P. Durajski

Electronic and thermal transport properties in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have been extensively investigated due to their potential to miniaturize transistors. Microscopically, electron-phonon interactions are considered the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 Yujie Quan , Bolin Liao

We review a novel approach to the superconductive proximity effect in disordered normal-superconducting (N-S) structures. The method is based on the multicharge Keldysh action and is suitable for the treatment of interaction and fluctuation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 M. A. Skvortsov , A. I. Larkin , M. V. Feigel'man

Laser control of solids was so far mainly discussed in the context of strong classical nonlinear light-matter coupling in a pump-probe framework. Here we propose a quantum-electrodynamical setting to address the coupling of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-02 Michael A. Sentef , Michael Ruggenthaler , Angel Rubio

We investigate the numerical behavior of the Eliashberg equations for phonon-mediated superconductivity, incorporating normal-state self-energy calculations within the consistent $GW_{0}$ approximation. We account for the full wavenumber…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-28 Ryosuke Akashi , Hiroshi Shinaoka

We have studied the lattice dynamics, electron-phonon coupling, and superconducting properties of $\alpha$-MoB$_2$, as a function of applied pressure, within the framework of density functional perturbation theory using a mixed-basis…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-31 Marco-Antonio Carmona-Galván , Rolf Heid , Omar De la Peña-Seaman

I present results from an extended Migdal-Eliashberg theory of electron-phonon interactions and superconductivity. The history of the electron-phonon problem is introduced, and then study of the intermediate parameter regime is justified…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. Hague

Eliashberg's foundational theory of superconductivity is based on the application of Migdal's approximation, which states that vertex corrections to first order electron-phonon scattering are negligible if the ratio between phonon and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-26 Fabian Schrodi , Alex Aperis , Peter M. Oppeneer