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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…

Strong electron-electron interactions are known to significantly modify the electron-phonon coupling relative to the predictions of density functional theory, but this effect is challenging to calculate with realistic theories of strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-21 David J. Abramovitch , Jennifer Coulter , Sophie Beck , Andrew Millis

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

Spectral distribution functions of electron-phonon interaction $\alpha^2F(\omega )$ obtained by ab initio linear--response calculations are used to describe various superconducting and transport properties in a number of elemental metals…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Y. Savrasov , D. Y. Savrasov

The ab initio computational method known as Hubbard-corrected density functional theory (DFT+$U$) captures well ground electronic structures of a set of solids that are poorly described by standard DFT alone. Since lattice dynamical…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-17 Wooil Yang , Sabyasachi Tiwari , Feliciano Giustino , Young-Woo Son

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

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 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

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

The electron-phonon coupling (EPC) is a ubiquitous interaction in condensed systems and plays a vital role in shaping the electronic properties of materials. Yet, achieving coherent manipulation of electron-phonon coupling has posed a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-13 Jicai Zhang , Tien-Dat Tran , Ziwen Wang , Wenhao Yu , Chong Zhang , Marcus Lo , Wenqi Xu , Tran Trung Luu

We investigate the dynamical effects of electron-phonon coupling (EPC) on the superconducting properties of two-dimensional (2D) systems, calculating the Eliashberg function in terms of dynamically renormalized phonons. By studying…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-29 Juraj Krsnik , Dino Novko , Osor Slaven Barišić

Electron-phonon coupling (EPC) governs lattice dynamics, charge transport, and collective electronic phases in quantum materials. In several families of unconventional superconductors, including transition-metal dichalcogenides and kagome…

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

The coupling between lattice vibration quanta and valence electrons can induce charge density modulations and decisively influence the transport properties of materials, e.g. leading to conventional superconductivity. In high critical…

Electron-phonon coupling, being one of the most important parameters governing the material evolution after ultrafast energy deposition, yet remains the most unexplored one. In this work, we applied the dynamical coupling approach to…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-05 N. Medvedev , I. Milov

Multicomponent density functional theory (DFT) enables the consistent quantum mechanical treatment of both electrons and protons. A major challenge has been the design of electron-proton correlation functionals that produce even…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Yang Yang , Kurt R. Brorsen , Tanner Culpitt , Michael V. Pak , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

State-of-the-art model Hamiltonians, like Fr\"ohlich's, or density functional theory approaches to electron-phonon interaction suffer from a severe overscreening error. This is due to the incorrect treatment of the screening of the ionic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-17 Fulvio Paleari , Andrea Marini

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

Rare-earth oxides (REOs) are an important class of materials owing to their unique properties, including high ionic conductivities, large dielectric constants, and elevated melting temperatures, making them relevant to several technological…

We review investigations of the electron-phonon interaction (EPI) in metal diborides MeB_2 (Me=Zr, Nb, Ta, Mg) by point-contact (PC) spectroscopy. For transition metal compounds the PC EPI functions were recovered and EPI parameter…

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