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We consider a polaron model where molecular \emph{rotations} are important. Here, the usual hopping between neighboring sites is affected directly by the electron-phonon interaction via a {\em twist-dependent} hopping amplitude. This model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Wei Zhang , Alexander O. Govorov , Sergio E. Ulloa

In the present work, a theoretical study of electron-phonon (electron-ion) coupling rates in semiconductors driven out of equilibrium is performed. Transient change of optical coefficients reflects the band gap shrinkage in covalently…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-22 Nikita Medvedev , Zheng Li , Victor Tkachenko , Beata Ziaja

The interaction between electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom is an important mechanism in nonequilibrium charge transport through molecular nanojunctions. While adiabatic polaron-type coupling has been studied in great detail, new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Christoph Kaspar , André Erpenbeck , Jakob Bätge , Christian Schinabeck , Michael Thoss

The coupling between electrons and phonons plays important roles in physics, chemistry and biology. However, the accurate calculation of the electron-phonon coupling constants is computationally expensive as it involves solving the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 B. J. Powell , Mark R. Pederson , Tunna Baruah

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

We use the dynamical mean field theory to develop a systematic and computationally tractable method for studying electron-phonon interactions in systems with arbitrary electronic correlations. The method is formulated as an adiabatic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Deppeler , A. J. Millis

Nonlinear wave--coupling is studied in a multi-species degenerate astrophysical plasma consisting of two electron species (at different temperatures): a highly degenerate main component plus a smaller classical relativistic flow immersed in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 N. L. Shatashvili , S. M. Mahajan , V. I. Berezhiani

An ab initio method for calculating electron-phonon coupling parameters is presented. The method is an extension of the plane-wave-based linear-response method for the calculation of lattice dynamics. Results for the mass enhancement…

mtrl-th · Physics 2009-10-28 Amy Y. Liu , Andrew A. Quong

The electronic self-energy is studied for a two dimensional electron gas coupled to a spin-orbit Rashba field and interacting with dispersionless phonons. For the case of a momentum independent electron-phonon coupling (Holstein model) we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Cappelluti , C. Grimaldi , F. Marsiglio

We present a method to efficiently combine the computation of electron-electron and electron-phonon self-energies, which enables the evaluation of electron-phonon coupling at the $G_0W_0$ level of theory for systems with hundreds of atoms.…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-14 Han Yang , Marco Govoni , Arpan Kundu , Giulia Galli

Dynamical mean-field theory computations of the electron self energy of the Hubbard-Holstein model as a function of electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions are analyzed to gain insight into the dependence of electron-phonon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-14 Jennifer Coulter , Andrew J. Millis

We consider a one dimensional model of an electron in a doubly (or nearly) degenerate band that interacts with elastic distortions. We show that the electron equations of motion reduce to a set of coupled non-linear Schrodinger equations.…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Dennis P. Clougherty , Charles A. Foell

In this paper we present both the classical and quantum periodic-orbits of a neutral spinning particle constrained in two-dimensional central-potentials with a cylindrically symmetric electric-field in addition which leads to an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Jun-Li Xin , Jiu-Qing Liang

We investigate electron-phonon coupling in the molecular crystals CH$_4$, NH$_3$, H$_2$O, and HF, using first-principles quantum mechanical calculations. We find vibrational corrections to the electronic band gaps at zero temperature of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 Bartomeu Monserrat , Edgar A. Engel , Richard J. Needs

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

We investigate effects of a nonadiabatic electron-phonon(boson) interaction on the quasiparticle self-energy in the lowest order in the coupling constant. Existing approaches either overestimate, or underestimate these effects because of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 O. V. Danylenko , O. V. Dolgov

We present a general theory for semiconductor polarons in the framework of the Froehlich interaction between electrons and phonons. The latter is investigated using non-commuting phonon creation/annihilation operators associated with a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-02-09 D. Obreschkow , F. Michelini , S. Dalessi , E. Kapon , M. -A. Dupertuis

We study the interplay between strong electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions within a two-orbital molecule coupled to metallic leads, taking into account Holstein-like coupling of a local phonon mode to the molecular charge as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-26 G. I. Luiz , E. Vernek , L. Deng , K. Ingersent , E. V. Anda

The coupling strengths for intra- and inter-band electron-phonon pair scattering are calculated for LiFeAs. While the sum of these couplings, which gives the total electron-phonon coupling $\lambda$, is of order 0.2, we find that their…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-16 R. A. Jishi , Douglas Scalapino

We report evidence of a non-adiabatic Kohn anomaly in boron-doped diamond, using a joint theoretical and experimental analysis of the phonon dispersion relations. We demonstrate that standard calculations of phonons using density functional…