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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…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-15 Zhenglu Li , Gabriel Antonius , Meng Wu , Felipe H. da Jornada , Steven G. Louie

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

EPW is an open-source software for $\textit{ab initio}$ calculations of electron-phonon interactions and related materials properties. The code combines density functional perturbation theory and maximally-localized Wannier functions 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

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

The calculation of electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling from first principles is a topic of great interest in materials science, offering a robust, non-empirical framework to understand and predict a wide range of physical phenomena. While…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-17 Savio Laricchia , Casey Eichstaedt , Dimitar Pashov , Mark van Schilfgaarde

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

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 formulate an ab initio downfolding scheme for electron-phonon coupled systems. In this scheme, we calculate partially renormalized phonon frequencies and electron-phonon coupling, which include the screening effects of high-energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-10 Yusuke Nomura , Ryotaro Arita

Verification and validation of methods and first-principles software are at the core of computational solid-state physics but are too rarely addressed. We compare four first-principles codes: Abinit, Quantum ESPRESSO, EPW, ZG, and three…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-28 Samuel Poncé , Jae-Mo Lihm , Cheol-Hwan Park

Ab initio techniques for studying the optical and vibrational properties of materials are well-established, but only a few recent studies have focused on the interaction between excitons and atomic vibrations. In this paper, we revisit the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 Rafael R. Del Grande , David A. Strubbe

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 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

We show that the electron-phonon coupling (EPC) in many materials can be significantly underestimated by the standard density functional theory (DFT) in the local density approximation (LDA) due to large non-local correlation effects. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-02 Z. P. Yin , A. Kutepov , G. Kotliar

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-electron ($e$-$e$) and electron-phonon ($e$-ph) interactions are challenging to describe in correlated materials, where their joint effects govern unconventional transport, phase transitions, and superconductivity. Here we combine…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-05 David J. Abramovitch , Jin-Jian Zhou , Jernej Mravlje , Antoine Georges , Marco Bernardi

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…

We describe an approach for calculations of phonon contributions to the electron spectral function, including both quasiparticle properties and satellites. The method is based on a cumulant expansion for the retarded one-electron Green's…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 S. M. Story , J. J. Kas , F. D. Vila , M. J. Verstraete , J. J. Rehr

We compute electron-phonon coupling (EPC) of selected phonon modes in graphene and graphite using various ab-initio methods. The inclusion of non-local exchange-correlation effects within the GW approach strongly renormalizes the square EPC…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-08-28 Michele Lazzeri , Claudio Attaccalite , Ludger Wirtz , Francesco Mauri

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.…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-14 Han Yang , Marco Govoni , Arpan Kundu , Giulia Galli
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