У оквиру семинара Центра за физику чврстог стања и нове материјале у четвртак, 2. априла 2026. године у 12 часова у читаоници библиотеке „Др Драган Поповић“, др Метју Хаутпут (Универзитет у Антверпену) одржаће предавање:
First principles theory of nonlinear long-range electron-phonon interaction
САЖЕТАК:
When an electron moves through a solid, it can interact with the ions in the lattice of the solid. These so-called electron-phonon interactions are necessary to describe several important material properties, such as the electrical conductivity and conventional superconductivity. It is often sufficient to describe electron-phonon interactions using the approximation of linear interaction, where one only keeps the process where one electron interacts with one phonon. However, this is no longer true in anharmonic materials with significant electron-phonon interaction, such as quantum paraelectrics and halide perovskites. Currently, the only available models for nonlinear electron-phonon interaction are model Hamiltonians, written in terms of phenomenological parameters. Here, we provide a microscopic semi-analytical expression for the long-range dipole part of the 1-electron-2-phonon matrix element, which can be interfaced with first principles techniques. We show that unlike for the long-range 1-electron-1 phonon interaction, the continuum approximation is not sufficient and that the entire phonon dispersion must be considered. We calculate an expression for the quasiparticle energies and show that they can be written in terms of a 1-electron-2-phonon spectral function. To demonstrate the method in practice, we calculate the 1-electron-2-phonon spectral function for LiF and CsPbI3 from first principles, and we show that the nonlinear interaction contributes significantly to the electron mobility of CsPbI3. The framework presented here bridges the gap between model Hamiltonians and first-principles calculations for the 1-electron-2-phonon interaction.
References:
[1] Matthew Houtput, Ingvar Zappacosta, Serghei Klimin, Samuel Poncé, Jacques Tempere, Cesare Franchini, arxiv.org/abs/2603.10954