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The EPW (Electron-Phonon coupling using Wannier functions) software is a Fortran90 code that uses density-functional perturbation theory and maximally localized Wannier functions for computing electron-phonon couplings and related…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-23 Samuel Poncé , Elena R. Margine , Carla Verdi , Feliciano Giustino

EPW (Electron-Phonon coupling using Wannier functions) is a program written in FORTRAN90 for calculating the electron-phonon coupling in periodic systems using density-functional perturbation theory and maximally-localized Wannier…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Jesse Noffsinger , Feliciano Giustino , Brad D. Malone , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie , Marvin L. Cohen

We present an interface between the Vienna \textit{Ab initio} Simulation Package (VASP) and the EPW software for calculating materials properties governed by electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions. Computation of the e-ph matrix elements with…

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

We present a workflow of practical calculations of electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling with many-electron correlation effects included using the GW perturbation theory (GWPT). This workflow combines BerkeleyGW, ABINIT, and EPW software packages…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-20 Zhenglu Li , Gabriel Antonius , Yang-Hao Chan , Steven G. Louie

Magnetic materials are crucial for manipulating electron spin and magnetic fields, enabling applications in data storage, spintronics, charge transport, and energy conversion, while also providing insight into fundamental quantum phenomena.…

EPIq (Electron-Phonon wannier Interpolation over k and q-points) is an open-source software for the calculation of electron-phonon interaction related properties from first principles.Acting as a post-processing tool for a…

The interaction between electrons and lattice vibrations determines key physical properties of materials, including their electrical and heat transport, excited electron dynamics, phase transitions, and superconductivity. We present a new…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-04 Luis A. Agapito , Marco Bernardi

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-06 Manuel Engel , Martijn Marsman , Cesare Franchini , Georg Kresse

Electron-phonon coupling (EPC) is fundamental for understanding the behavior of molecules and crystals, influencing phenomena such as charge transport, energy transfer, phase transitions, and polaron formation. Accurate computational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Konrad Merkel , Maximilian F. X. Dorfner , Manuel Engel , Georg Kresse , Frank Ortmann

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

This article reviews the theory of electron-phonon interactions in solids from the point of view of ab-initio calculations. While the electron-phonon interaction has been studied for almost a century, predictive non-empirical calculations…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 Feliciano Giustino

The coupling between electrons and phonons in solids plays a central role in describing many phenomena, including superconductivity and thermoelecric transport. Calculations of this coupling are exceedingly demanding as they necessitate…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-16 Anderson S. Chaves , Alex Antonelli , Daniel T. Larson , Efthimios Kaxiras

Understanding the electrical and thermal transport properties of materials is critical to the design of electronics, sensors and energy conversion devices. Computational modeling can accurately predict materials properties but, in order to…

Electron-phonon interactions are of great importance to a variety of physical phenomena, and their accurate description is an important goal for first-principles calculations. Isolated examples of materials and molecular systems have…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-14 Antonios M. Alvertis , David B. Williams-Young , Fabien Bruneval , Jeffrey B. Neaton

elphbolt is a modern Fortran (2018 standard) code for efficiently solving the coupled electron-phonon Boltzmann transport equations from first principles. Using results from density functional and density functional perturbation theory as…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-19 Nakib H. Protik , Chunhua Li , Miguel Pruneda , David Broido , Pablo Ordejón

Perturbo is a software package for first-principles calculations of charge transport and ultrafast carrier dynamics in materials. The current version focuses on electron-phonon interactions and can compute phonon-limited transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-28 Jin-Jian Zhou , Jinsoo Park , I-Te Lu , Ivan Maliyov , Xiao Tong , Marco Bernardi

The electron-phonon coupling in ultrafast heating systems is studied within the framework of Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) with coupled electron and phonon transport. A discrete unified gas kinetic scheme is developed to solve the BTE,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Chuang Zhang , Rulei Guo , Meng Lian , Junichiro Shiomi

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…

Electron-phonon coupling (EPC) is key for understanding many properties of materials such as superconductivity and electric resistivity. Although first principles density-functional-theory (DFT) based EPC calculations are used widely, their…

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