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We report the computation of the Standard Hamiltonian of a coupled electron-phonon system by accurately computing the electron-phonon interaction (EPI) contribution to the total energy. This gives the most accurate ab initio total energy…
The standard Hamiltonian of a coupled electron-phonon system is based on second-order perturbation theory. The EPI contribution in the standard Hamiltonian consists of two terms, the EPI contribution to the band-structure energy and the…
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…
Despite several first principles studies, the relative stability of BN polymorphs remains controversial. The stable polymorph varies between the cubic (c-BN) and hexagonal (h-BN) depending on the van der Waals (vdW) dispersion approximation…
The total energy is a fundamental characteristic of solids, molecules, and nanostructures. In most first-principles calculations of the total energy, the nuclear kinetic operator is decoupled from the many-body electronic Hamiltonian and…
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…
It is supported a recent proposal by Maksimov that electron-phonon interaction (EPI) (Gruneisen-Bloch formulae) determines the linearity of temperature dependence of resistivity for both HTSC-cuprates and most of metals at T near above 0.2…
The recovering procedure of the electron-phonon interaction (EPI) functions from the additional nonlinearities of the current-voltage curve ($I-V$ curve) of point contacts associated with an excess current is considered. The approach…
Experimental study of the electron-phonon interaction (EPI) spectra of zirconium was carried out using Yanson's point-contact (PC) spectroscopy. The EPI spectral function and constant were determined. Both homocontacts ($Zr-Zr$) and…
Polar optical phonons are studied in the framework of the dielectric continuum approach for a prototypical quantum-dot/quantum-well (QD/QW) heterostructure, including the derivation of the electron-phonon interaction Hamiltonian and a…
Effects of electron-phonon interactions on the band structure can be experimentally investigated in detail by measuring the temperature dependence of energy gaps or critical points (van Hove singularities) of the optical excitation spectra.…
We study the electron-phonon interaction in the strongly correlated superconducting cuprates. Two types of the electron-phonon interactions are introduced in the $t-J$ model; the diagonal and off-diagonal interactions which modify the…
A comprehensive ellipsometric study was performed on Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$Si single crystals in the spectral range from 0.01 eV to 6.2 eV. Direct and indirect band gaps of 73 meV and 10 meV, respectively, were observed in FeSi at 7 K. One of…
Using finite temperature Raman spectroscopy, we investigate the electron-phonon interactions (EPI) and phonon-phonon scattering dynamics in the Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 in different fre quency regimes. Strong softening of the Raman shifts…
Nonlinear electrical effects in superconducting S-c-S contacts, including the spectroscopy of electron-phonon interactions (EPI) in these systems, and the recovery of the EPI function from experimental data are discussed. The effect of a…
The topic of this review is the effects of electron-phonon interaction (EPI) on the transport properties of molecular nano-conductors. A nano-conductor connects to two electron leads and two phonon leads, possibly at different temperatures…
The experimentally observed nonlinearities of the current-voltage characteristics (CVCs) of tantalum-based point homo- and hetero- contacts in both normal and superconducting states related to electron-phonon interaction (EPI) were…
We present a new first-principles linear-response theory of changes due to perturbations in the quasiparticle self-energy operator within the $GW$ method. This approach, named $GW$ perturbation theory ($GW$PT), is applied to calculate the…
The effect of Holstein electron-phonon interaction on a Hubbard model close to a Mott-Hubbard transition at half-filling is investigated by means of Dynamical Mean-Field Theory. We observe a reduction of the effective mass that we interpret…
In this paper we investigate from first principles the effect of the electron-phonon interaction in two paradigmatic nanostructures: trans-polyacetylene and polyethylene. We found that the strong electron-phonon interaction leads to the…