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Using high resolution Vlasov - Poisson simulations, evolution of driven ``cold" electron plasma wave (EPW) in the presence of stationary inhomogeneous background of ions is studied. Mode coupling dynamics between ``cold'' EPW with phase…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 Sanjeev Kumar Pandey , Rajaraman Ganesh

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

Electron-phonon ($e$-ph) interactions are key to understanding the dynamics of electrons in materials, and can be modeled accurately from first-principles. However, when electrons and holes form Coulomb-bound states (excitons), quantifying…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-09 Hsiao-Yi Chen , Davide Sangalli , Marco Bernardi

We develop a method for calculating the electron-phonon vertex in polar semiconductors and insulators from first principles. The present formalism generalizes the Fr\"ohlich vertex to the case of anisotropic materials and multiple phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-22 Carla Verdi , Feliciano Giustino

Using a first-principles approach we calculate the acoustic electron-phonon couplings in graphene for the transverse (TA) and longitudinal (LA) acoustic phonons. Analytic forms of the coupling matrix elements valid in the long-wavelength…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-22 Kristen Kaasbjerg , Kristian S. Thygesen , Karsten W. Jacobsen

In this work, the effect of electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling on both electron and phonon transport of metals is investigated via first principles calculations. A Monte-Carlo (MC) approach for solving the coupled electron-phonon Boltzmann…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-14 Jie Peng , W. Ryan Deskins , Maria Helena Braga , Anter El-Azab

We combine the fully anisotropic Migdal-Eliashberg theory with electron-phonon interpolation based on maximally-localized Wannier functions, in order to perform reliable and highly accurate calculations of the anisotropic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-12 E. R. Margine , F. Giustino

The first order standard perturbation theory combined with ab initio projector augmented wave operator challenges the realization of the standard Sternheimer equation with linear computational efficiency. This efficiency motivates us to…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-05 Sushant Kumar Behera , Pritam Deb

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 this paper, we propose a computational framework, based on the VASP and phono3py computer codes, to obtain the thermoelectric figure of merit from the electron-phonon and phonon-phonon interactions using finite displacements in…

Using the {\it ab initio} anisotropic Eliashberg theory including Coulomb interactions, we investigate the electron-phonon interaction and the pairing mechanism in the recently-reported superconducting Ca-intercalated bilayer graphene. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-25 E. R. Margine , Henry Lambert , Feliciano Giustino

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

Mathematical correct method for extraction of the complex superconducting energy gap parameter and electron- phonon interaction function from the tunnel density of states is presented. The computer program is shown to be robust against…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. D'yachenko

API Phonons is a Python software package to predict the transport dynamics of heat-carrying phonons. Using the powerful syntax of Python, this package provides modules and functions interfacing between different packages for atomistic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-08 Xin Qian , Guanda Quan , Te-Huan Liu , Ronggui Yang

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

PtBi2 is a Weyl semimetal, which demonstrates superconductivity with low critical temperature Tc ~ 0.6 K in the bulk. Here, we report our study of electron-phonon interaction (EPI) in trigonal PtBi2 by the Yanson point contact (PC)…

Topological Weyl semimetals represent a novel class of quantum materials that exhibit remarkable properties arising from their unique electronic structure. In this work, we employ state-of-the-art ab initio methods to investigate the role…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-05 Zhe Liu , Shashi B. Mishra , Jae-Mo Lihm , Samuel Poncé , Elena R. Margine

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

We present a first principle study of the electron-phonon (e-p) interaction at the Be(0001) surface. The real and imaginary part of the e-p self energy are calculated for the surface state in the binding energy range from the $\bar{\Gamma}$…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Eiguren , S. de Gironcoli , E. V. Chulkov , P. M. Echenique , E. Tosatti

The transfer of heat between electrons and phonons plays a key role for thermal management in future nanowire-based devices, but only a few experimental measurements of electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling in nanowires are available. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 Jason Matthews , Eric A. Hoffmann , Carsten Weber , Andreas Wacker , Heiner Linke