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Ultrafast thermal transport in low-dimensional materials challenges traditional diffusive models due to reduced scattering, strong electron-phonon coupling, and pronounced non-equilibrium effects. To address these complexities, we extend…

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Non-diffusive, fluid-like transport of charge and heat has been observed in several materials, raising the question of whether they can emerge simultaneously and how they are related to bi-component electron-phonon fluids. Here we introduce…

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\textit{Ab initio} calculations of electron-phonon interactions including the polar Fr\"ohlich coupling have advanced considerably in recent years. The Fr\"ohlich electron-phonon matrix element is by now well understood in the case of bulk…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-16 Weng Hong Sio , Feliciano Giustino

The combination of two-dimensional materials into heterostructures offers new opportunities for the design of optoelectronic devices with tunable properties. However, computing electronic and optical properties of such systems using…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-25 Maximilian Schebek , Ignacio Gonzalez Oliva , Claudia Draxl

Using a first-principles approach we calculate the acoustic electron-phonon couplings in graphene for the transverse (TA) and longitudinal (LA) acoustic phonons. Analytic forms of the coupling matrix elements valid in the long-wavelength…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-22 Kristen Kaasbjerg , Kristian S. Thygesen , Karsten W. Jacobsen

Molecular motion at metallic surfaces is affected by nonadiabatic effects and electron-phonon coupling. The ensuing energy dissipation and dynamical steering effects are not captured by classical molecular dynamics simulations, but can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-02 Connor L. Box , Wojciech G. Stark , Reinhard J. Maurer

Mathematical correct method for extraction of the complex superconducting energy gap parameter and electron- phonon interaction function from the tunnel density of states is presented. The computer program is shown to be robust against…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. D'yachenko

The harmonic approximation of ionic fluctuations and the linear coupling between phonons and electrons provide the standard framework to compute, from first principles, the contribution of nuclear dynamics and its interaction with electrons…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-04 Raffaello Bianco , Ion Errea

We present a computational protocol, based on density matrix perturbation theory, to obtain non-adiabatic, frequency-dependent electron-phonon self-energies for molecules and solids. Our approach enables the evaluation of electron-phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-09 Han Yang , Marco Govoni , Arpan Kundu , Giulia Galli

We develop a theoretical and computational framework to study polarons in semiconductors and insulators from first principles. Our approach provides the formation energy, excitation energy, and wavefunction of both electron and hole…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-21 Weng Hong Sio , Carla Verdi , Samuel Ponce , Feliciano Giustino

Structural phase transitions and soft phonon modes pose a longstanding challenge to computing electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions in strongly anharmonic crystals. Here we develop a first-principles approach to compute e-ph scattering and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-04 Jin-Jian Zhou , Olle Hellman , Marco Bernardi

In this work, we use neural quantum states (NQS) to describe the high-dimensional wave functions of electron-phonon coupled systems. We demonstrate that NQS can accurately and systematically learn the underlying physics of such problems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-30 Ankit Mahajan , Paul J. Robinson , Joonho Lee , David R. Reichman

We present a method to efficiently combine the computation of electron-electron and electron-phonon self-energies, which enables the evaluation of electron-phonon coupling at the $G_0W_0$ level of theory for systems with hundreds of atoms.…

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We have performed a comprehensive computational study of the vibrational properties and electron-phonon couplings in the three known polymorphs of pentacene. Vibrational patterns and electron-phonon interactions were calculated at several…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Luca Gnoli , Elisabetta Venuti , Matteo Masino , Patrizio Graziosi

We develop an ab initio formalism for dipolar electron-phonon interactions (EPI) in two-dimensional (2D) materials. Unlike purely longitudinal Fr\"ohlich model, we show that the out-of-plane dipoles also contribute to the long-wavelength…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-08 Tianqi Deng , Gang Wu , Wen Shi , Zicong Marvin Wong , Jian-Sheng Wang , Shuo-Wang Yang

The Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) with electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions computed from first principles is widely used to study electronic transport and nonequilibrium dynamics in materials. Calculating the e-ph collision integral is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-06 Shiyu Peng , Donnie Pinkston , Jia Yao , Sergei Kliavinek , Ivan Maliyov , Marco Bernardi

We investigate the scattering of an electron by phonons in a small structure between two one-dimensional tight-binding leads. This model mimics the quantum electron transport through atomic wires or molecular junctions coupled to metallic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-27 C. Brockt , E. Jeckelmann

Understanding of the energy exchange between electrons and phonons in metals is important for micro- and nano-manufacturing and system design. The electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling constant is to describe such exchange strength, yet its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Wuli Miao , Moran Wang

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

In compound semiconductors and insulators, the polar electron-phonon coupling diverges at long range, known as the Fr\"ohlich interaction. Modern first-principles electron-phonon calculations treat the Fr\"ohlich interaction in a…