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We reassess the validity of Migdal-Eliashberg (ME) theory for coupled electron-phonon systems for large couplings $\lambda$. Although model calculations have found that ME theory breaks down for $\lambda\sim 0.5$, it is routinely applied…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-12-01 Johannes Bauer , Jong E. Han , Olle Gunnarsson

In view of some recent works on the role of vertex corrections in the electron-phonon system we readress an important question of the validity of the Migdal-Eliashberg theory. Based on the solution of the Holstein model and inverse coupling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 A. S. Alexandrov

The Migdal-Eliashberg (ME) formalism provides a reliable framework for describing phonon-mediated superconductivity in the adiabatic regime, where the electronic Fermi energy exceeds the characteristic phonon energy. In this work, we go…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-05 Shashi B. Mishra , Hitoshi Mori , Elena R. Margine

Migdal-Eliashberg theory describes the properties of the normal and superconducting states of electron-phonon mediated superconductors based on a perturbative treatment of the electron-phonon interactions. It is necessary to include both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-27 Benjamin Nosarzewski , Michael Schueler , Thomas P. Devereaux

The Migdal-Eliashberg theory (MET) describes electrons interacting with phonons in the adiabatic limit when the phonon Debye frequency is much smaller than the Fermi energy. A conventional belief is that MET holds even at strong coupling,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-22 Andrey Chubukov , Ilya Esterlis , Artem Abanov , Nikolay Prokof'ev

We simulate spectral functions for electron-phonon coupling in a filled band system - far from the asymptotic limit often assumed where the phonon energy is very small compared to the Fermi energy in a parabolic band and the Migdal theorem…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-12 C. N. Veenstra , G. L. Goodvin , M. Berciu , A. Damascelli

Eliashberg's foundational theory of superconductivity is based on the application of Migdal's approximation, which states that vertex corrections to first order electron-phonon scattering are negligible if the ratio between phonon and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-26 Fabian Schrodi , Alex Aperis , Peter M. Oppeneer

In a recent work by Schrodi $\textit{et al}$. [Phys. Rev. B. $\textbf{104}$, L140506 (2021)], the authors find an unconventional superconducting state with a sign-changing order parameter using the Migdal-Eliashberg theory, including the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-07 Philip M. Dee , Benjamin Cohen-Stead , Steven Johnston , P. J. Hirschfeld

Electron-phonon interaction plays an important role in metals and can lead to superconductivity and other instabilities. Previous theoretical studies on superconductivity are largely based on the Migdal-Eliashberg theory, which neglects all…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-05 Guo-Zhu Liu , Zhao-Kun Yang , Xiao-Yin Pan , Jing-Rong Wang

In this work, we present a method to reconstruct real-frequency properties from analytically continued causal Green's functions within the framework of Migdal-Eliashberg (ME) theory for superconductivity. ME theory involves solving a set of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-15 D. M. Khodachenko , R. Lucrezi , P. N. Ferreira , M. Aichhorn , C. Heil

We analyze the validity of Eliashberg theory of phonon-mediated superconductivity in 2D systems in light of recent extensive Monte-Carlo studies of the Holstein model. Conventional wisdom says that Eliashberg theory is applicable as long as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-13 Andrey V. Chubukov , Artem Abanov , Ilya Esterlis , Steven A. Kivelson

We show that the Migdal-Eliashberg theory loses validity at a finite value $\lambda_c$ of the electron-phonon coupling $\lambda$ regardless of the underlying model Hamiltonian. The value of $\lambda_c$ is approximately between 3.0 and 3.7.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-14 Emil A. Yuzbashyan , Boris L. Altshuler

In this article we quantify the possible effects of the breakdown of Migdal's theorem on the electron-phonon (e-p) coupling constant, on the critical temperature and on the superconducting gap by examining different kinds of superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 G. A. Ummarino , R. S. Gonnelli

We solve the anisotropic, full-bandwidth and non-adiabatic Eliashberg equations for phonon-mediated superconductivity by fully including the first vertex correction in the electronic self-energy. The non-adiabatic equations are solved…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-06 Fabian Schrodi , Peter M. Oppeneer , Alex Aperis

We discuss the compatibility of the most accurate experimental data with the ordinary Migdal-Eliashberg theory of superconductivity in the fullerene compound Rb_3C_60. By using different model phonon spectra we conclude that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Grimaldi , E. Cappelluti , L. Pietronero , S. Straessler

The Peierls instability in one-dimensional electron-phonon systems is known to be qualitatively well described by the Mean-Field theory, however the related self-consistent problem so far has only been able to predict a partial suppression…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-04 Alain M. Dikande , C. Bourbonnais

I present results from an extended Migdal-Eliashberg theory of electron-phonon interactions and superconductivity. The history of the electron-phonon problem is introduced, and then study of the intermediate parameter regime is justified…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. Hague

A series of weak-coupling perturbation theories which include the lowest-order vertex corrections are applied to the attractive Holstein model in infinite dimensions. The approximations are chosen to reproduce the iterated perturbation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 J. K. Freericks , V. Zlatic' , Woonki Chung , Mark Jarrell

The phenomenology of LiFeAs superconductor can be explained in the framework of a four-band s$\pm$-wave Eliashberg theory. We have examined the experimental data available in literature and we have found out that it is possible to reproduce…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 G A Ummarino , Sara Galasso , A Sanna

We perform single- and multi-band Migdal-Eliashberg (ME) calculations with parameters exctracted from density functional theory (DFT) simulations to study superconductivity in the electric-field-induced 2-dimensional hole gas at the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-29 Davide Romanin , Giovanni A. Ummarino , Erik Piatti
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