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Electron and phonon correlations in systems of one-dimensional electrons coupled to phonons are studied at low temperatures by emphasizing on the effect of electron-phonon backward scattering. It is found that the $2k_F$-wave components of…

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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 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

Atom scattering is becoming recognized as a sensitive probe of the electron-phonon interaction parameter $\lambda$ at metal and metal-overlayer surfaces. Here, the theory is developed linking $\lambda$ to the thermal attenuation of atom…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-20 G. Benedek , J. R. Manson , S. Miret-Artés

Plasmons and polar phonons are elementary electrodynamic excitations of matter. In 2d and at long wavelengths, they couple to light and act as the system polaritons. They also dictate the scattering of charged carriers. Van der Waals…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-10 Francesco Macheda , Francesco Mauri , Thibault Sohier

The interplay of electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom presents an outstanding problem in condensed matter physics and chemistry. Computational challenges arise especially for large systems, long time scales, in nonequilibrium, or in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-14 Arne Schobert , Jan Berges , Erik G. C. P. van Loon , Michael A. Sentef , Sergey Brener , Mariana Rossi , Tim O. Wehling

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

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

The electron-phonon coupling and the corresponding energy exchange was investigated experimentally and by ab initio theory in non-equilibrium states of the free-electron metal aluminium. The temporal evolution of the atomic mean squared…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-11 Lutz Waldecker , Roman Bertoni , Jan Vorberger , Ralph Ernstorfer

In graphene moir\'e superlattices, electronic interactions between layers are mostly hidden as band structures get crowded because of folding, making their interpretation cumbersome. Here, the evolution of the electronic band structure as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Francisco Sanchez-Ochoa , Andres Botello-Mendez , Cecilia Noguez

The polaron features due to electron-phonon interactions with different coupling ranges are investigated by adopting a variational approach. The ground-state energy, the spectral weight, the average kinetic energy, the mean number of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 C. A. Perroni , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis , V. Marigliano Ramaglia

Relying on the anharmonic special displacement method, we introduce an ab initio quasistatic polymorphous framework to describe local disorder, anharmonicity, and electron-phonon coupling in superionic conductors. Using the example of cubic…

The theory of the interaction of electrons with acoustic phonons in multilayer nitride-based AlN/GaN nanostructures was developed for the first time at $T\geqslant 0$ using the method of finite-temperature Green's functions and Dyson…

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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

Understanding the physics of strongly correlated electronic systems has been a central issue in condensed matter physics for decades. In transition metal oxides, strong correlations characteristic of narrow $d$ bands is at the origin of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-05 Mathieu Mirjolet , Francisco Rivadulla , Premysl Marsik , Vladislav Borisov , Roser Valenti , Josep Fontcuberta

Describing electron-phonon interactions in a solid requires knowledge of the electron-phonon matrix elements in the Hamiltonian. State-of-the-art first-principles calculations for the electron-phonon interaction are limited to the…

Electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions are usually treated in the lowest order of perturbation theory. Here we derive next-to-leading order e-ph interactions, and compute from first principles the associated two-phonon e-ph scattering rates.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Nien-En Lee , Jin-Jian Zhou , Hsiao-Yi Chen , Marco Bernardi

The electron-phonon interaction plays a crucial role in many fields of physics and chemistry. Nevertheless, its actual calculation by means of modern many-body perturbation theory is weakened by the use of model Hamiltonians that are based…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-15 Andrea Marini , Samuel Poncé , Xavier Gonze

We show that hole states in recently discovered single-layer InSe are strongly renormalized by the coupling with acoustic phonons. The coupling is enhanced significantly at moderate hole doping ($\sim$10$^{13}$ cm$^{-2}$) due to hexagonal…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-01 A. V. Lugovskoi , M. I. Katsnelson , A. N. Rudenko

The ab-initio theory of charge transport in semiconductors typically employs the lowest-order perturbation theory in which electrons interact with one phonon (1ph). This theory is accepted to be adequate to explain the low-field mobility of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-08 Benjamin Hatanpää , Alexander Y. Choi , Peishi S. Cheng , Austin J. Minnich