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We obtain analytical expressions for the electron self-energy and the electron-phonon coupling in electron-doped graphene using electron-phonon matrix elements extracted from density functional theory simulations. From the electron…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri

Density functional theory (DFT) embedding provides a formally exact framework for interfacing correlated wave-function theory (WFT) methods with lower-level descriptions of electronic structure. Here, we report techniques to improve the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jason D. Goodpaster , Taylor A. Barnes , Frederick R. Manby , Thomas F. Miller

Modeling spin-wave (magnon) dynamics in novel materials is important to advance spintronics and spin-based quantum technologies. The interactions between magnons and lattice vibrations (phonons) limit the length scale for magnon transport.…

We present a method for solving impurity models with electron-phonon coupling, which treats the phonons efficiently and without approximations. The algorithm is applied to the Holstein-Hubbard model in the dynamical mean field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Philipp Werner , Andrew J. Millis

In this work we present a new method for basis set generation for electronic structure calculations of crystalline solids. This procedure is aimed at applications to Density Functional Theory (DFT). In this construction, Energy Window…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-16 Garry Goldstein

We describe a new approach to compute the electron-phonon self-energy and carrier mobilities in semiconductors. Our implementation does not require a localized basis set to interpolate the electron-phonon matrix elements, with the advantage…

Using a computationally inexpensive frozen phonon approach we have developed a technique which can be used to screen large unit cell materials and systems for enhanced superconducting critical temperatures. The method requires only density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-07 Oliver A. Dicks , Kateryna Foyevtsova , Ilya Elfimov , Rohit Prasankumar , George Sawatzky

Ab initio many-body perturbation theory within the $GW$ approximation is a Green's function formalism widely used in the calculation of quasiparticle excitation energies of solids. In what has become an increasingly standard approach,…

First-principles calculations of electron interactions in materials have seen rapid progress in recent years, with electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions being a prime example. However, these techniques use large matrices encoding the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-11 Yao Luo , Dhruv Desai , Benjamin K. Chang , Jinsoo Park , Marco Bernardi

We present a fully charge self-consistent implementation of dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) combined with density functional theory (DFT) for electronic structure calculations of materials with strong electronic correlations. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-20 Sophie Beck , Alexander Hampel , Olivier Parcollet , Claude Ederer , Antoine Georges

Breaking the intrinsic chirality of quasiparticles in graphene enables the emergence of new and intriguing phases. One such paradigmatic example is the bond density wave, which leads to a Kekul\'{e}-ordered structure and underpins exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Dominik Szczȩśniak

We report on the importance of GW self-energy corrections for the electronic structure of light actinides in the weak-to-intermediate coupling regime. Our study is based on calculations of the band structure and total density of states of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-15 Towfiq Ahmed , R. C. Albers , A. V. Balatsky , C. Friedrich , Jian-Xin Zhu

We introduce an orbital free electron density functional approximation based on alchemical perturbation theory. Given convergent perturbations of a suitable reference system, the accuracy of popular self-consistent Kohn-Sham density…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Guido Falk von Rudorff , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

The present work proposes to use density-functional theory (DFT) to correct for the basis-set error of wave-function theory (WFT). One of the key ideas developed here is to define a range-separation parameter which automatically adapts to a…

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

Constrained electronic-structure theories enable the construction of effective low-energy models consisting of partially dressed particles. However, the interpretation and physical content of these theories is not straightforward. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-11 Erik G. C. P. van Loon , Jan Berges , Tim O. Wehling

For the computational prediction of core electron binding energies in solids, two distinct kinds of modelling strategies have been pursued: the $\Delta$-Self-Consistent-Field method based on density functional theory (DFT), and the GW…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-12 Juhan Matthias Kahk , Johannes Lischner

Electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions are responsible for the formation of spin, charge, and superconducting correlations in layered quantum materials. A paradigmatic model for such materials that captures both kinds of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Aiman Al-Eryani , Sabine Andergassen , Michael M. Scherer

We present in full detail a newly developed formalism enabling density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) calculations from a DFT+$U$ ground state. The implementation includes ultrasoft pseudopotentials and is valid for both insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-21 Andrea Floris , Iurii Timrov , Burak Himmetoglu , Nicola Marzari , Stefano de Gironcoli , Matteo Cococcioni