Electron-phonon interactions from first principles

F Giustino - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
This article reviews the theory of electron-phonon interactions in solids from the point of view
of ab initio calculations. While the electron-phonon interaction has been studied for almost a …

First-principles calculations of charge carrier mobility and conductivity in bulk semiconductors and two-dimensional materials

S Poncé, W Li, S Reichardt… - Reports on Progress in …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the fundamental properties of semiconductors is their ability to support highly tunable
electric currents in the presence of electric fields or carrier concentration gradients. These …

High-temperature superconductivity in alkaline and rare earth polyhydrides at high pressure: A theoretical perspective

E Zurek, T Bi - The Journal of chemical physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The theoretical exploration of the phase diagrams of binary hydrides under pressure using
ab initio crystal structure prediction techniques coupled with first principles calculations has …

First-principles demonstration of superconductivity at 280 K in hydrogen sulfide with low phosphorus substitution

Y Ge, F Zhang, Y Yao - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Recently, BCS superconductivity at 203 K has been observed in a highly compressed
hydrogen sulfide. We use first-principles calculations to systematically examine the effects of …

Effect of covalent bonding on the superconducting critical temperature of the HS-Se system

B Liu, W Cui, J Shi, L Zhu, J Chen, S Lin, R Su, J Ma… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Hydrogen-rich materials have attracted great interest since the recent discovery of
superconductivity at 203 K in highly compressed hydrogen sulfide. To probe the role of …

Correlation effects on electron-phonon coupling in semiconductors: Many-body theory along thermal lines

B Monserrat - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
A method is proposed for the inclusion of electron correlation in the calculation of the
temperature dependence of band structures arising from electron-phonon coupling. It relies …

Functional form of the superconducting critical temperature from machine learning

SR Xie, GR Stewart, JJ Hamlin, PJ Hirschfeld… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Predicting the critical temperature T c of new superconductors is a notoriously difficult task,
even for electron-phonon paired superconductors, for which the theory is relatively well …

Electron–phonon coupling from finite differences

B Monserrat - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The interaction between electrons and phonons underlies multiple phenomena in physics,
chemistry, and materials science. Examples include superconductivity, electronic transport …

Perspective: Role of structure prediction in materials discovery and design

RJ Needs, CJ Pickard - Apl Materials, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Materials informatics owes much to bioinformatics and the Materials Genome Initiative has
been inspired by the Human Genome Project. But there is more to bioinformatics than …

Possible “magnéli” phases and self-alloying in the superconducting sulfur hydride

R Akashi, W Sano, R Arita, S Tsuneyuki - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
We theoretically give an infinite number of metastable crystal structures for the
superconducting sulfur hydride H x S under pressure. Previously predicted crystalline …