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Understanding electronic interactions in high-temperature superconductors is an outstanding challenge. In the widely studied cuprate materials, experimental evidence points to strong electron-phonon ($e$-ph) coupling and broad photoemission…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-23 Benjamin K. Chang , Iurii Timrov , Jinsoo Park , Jin-Jian Zhou , Nicola Marzari , Marco Bernardi

A large polaron is a quasiparticle that consists of a nearly free electron interacting with the phonons of a material, whose lattice parameters are much smaller than the polaron scale. The electron-phonon interaction also leads to an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-01 Matthew Houtput , Jacques Tempere

State-of-the-art approaches to calculate the electron-phonon and the phonon-electron self-energy are based on a mean-field approximation for the interacting electronic system. This approach introduces an overscreening error which results in…

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

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

The Hubbard-Holstein model is a simple model including both electron-phonon interaction and electron-electron correlations. We review a body of theoretical work investigating the effects of strong correlations on the electron-phonon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-20 M. Capone , C. Castellani , M. Grilli

The quest for topological superconductors triggers revived interests in resolving non-s-wave pairing channels mediated by phonons. While density functional theory and density functional perturbtaion theory have established a powerful…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-01 Zimeng Zeng , Xiaoming Zhang , Shunhong Zhang , Jian Wu , Zheng Liu

Linear magnon-phonon coupling hybridizes magnon and phonon bands at the same energy and momentum, resulting in an anticrossing signature.This hybrid quasiparticle benefits from a long phonon lifetime and efficient magnon transport, showing…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-27 Wuzhang Fang , Jacopo Simoni , Yuan Ping

The effect of Holstein electron-phonon interaction on a Hubbard model close to a Mott-Hubbard transition at half-filling is investigated by means of Dynamical Mean-Field Theory. We observe a reduction of the effective mass that we interpret…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-08-07 G. Sangiovanni , M. Capone , C. Castellani , M. Grilli

The electron-phonon interaction causes thermal and zero-point motion shifts of electron quasiparticle (QP) energies $\epsilon_k(T)$. Other consequences of interactions, visible in angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-28 Jean Paul Nery , Philip B. Allen , Gabriel Antonius , Lucia Reining , Anna Miglio , Xavier Gonze

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…

The study of electron-phonon interaction as a prominent inelastic effect is of great importance. In the present work, we have studied the inelastic effects due to the first order electron-phonon interactions on electronic properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-30 Mujtaba Zahidy , Fatemeh Ghadirian , Afshin Namiranian

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

Nonlinear phononics holds the promise for controlling properties of quantum materials on the ultrashort timescale. Using nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory, we solve a model for the description of organic solids, where correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Francesco Grandi , Jiajun Li , Martin Eckstein

A thorough understanding of the microscopic picture of heat conduction in solids is critical to a broad range of applications, from thermal management of microelectronics to more efficient thermoelectric materials. The transport properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-04 Yujie Quan , Shengying Yue , Bolin Liao

The properties of an electron in a typical solid are modified by the interaction with the crystal ions, leading to the formation of a quasiparticle: the polaron. Such polarons are often described using the Fr\"ohlich Hamiltonian, which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-12 Matthew Houtput , Jacques Tempere

We study the problem of the phonon-induced electron-electron interaction in a solid. Starting with a Hamiltonian that contains an electron-phonon interaction, we perform a similarity renormalization transformation to calculate an effective…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-28 Andreas Mielke

The theory of electron-phonon interaction in the presence of strong correlation has been investigated in the present work. Due to the so called spin-charge separation, it is argued that the electron-phonon interaction in the strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-17 Abolhassan Vaezi

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…

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

We study leading-order many-body effects of longitudinal optical (LO) phonons on electronic properties of one-dimensional quantum wire systems. We calculate the quasiparticle properties of a weakly polar one dimensional electron gas in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. H. Hwang , Ben Yu-Kuang Hu , S. Das Sarma