Implementation strategies in phonopy and phono3py

A Togo, L Chaput, T Tadano… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Scientific simulation codes are public property sustained by the community. Modern
technology allows anyone to join scientific software projects, from anywhere, remotely via …

Recent developments in the ABINIT software package

X Gonze, F Jollet, FA Araujo, D Adams… - Computer physics …, 2016 - Elsevier
ABINIT is a package whose main program allows one to find the total energy, charge
density, electronic structure and many other properties of systems made of electrons and …

PyProcar: A Python library for electronic structure pre/post-processing

U Herath, P Tavadze, X He, E Bousquet, S Singh… - Computer Physics …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The PyProcar Python package plots the band structure and the Fermi surface as a
function of site and/or s, p, d, f-projected wavefunctions obtained for each k-point in the …

[HTML][HTML] Ab initio phase stabilities and mechanical properties of multicomponent alloys: A comprehensive review for high entropy alloys and compositionally complex …

Y Ikeda, B Grabowski, F Körmann - Materials Characterization, 2019 - Elsevier
Multicomponent alloys with multiple principal elements including high entropy alloys (HEAs)
and compositionally complex alloys (CCAs) are attracting rapidly growing attention. The …

Unfolding spinor wave functions and expectation values of general operators: Introducing the unfolding-density operator

PVC Medeiros, SS Tsirkin, S Stafström, J Björk - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We show that the spectral weights W m K ⃗ (k ⃗) used for the unfolding of two-component
spinor eigenstates| ψ m K ⃗ SC〉=| α〉| ψ m K ⃗ SC, α〉+| β〉| ψ m K ⃗ SC, β〉 can be …

Perspective on ab initio phonon thermal transport

L Lindsay, A Katre, A Cepellotti, N Mingo - Journal of Applied Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
ABSTRACT Coupling of the Peierls-Boltzmann equation with density functional theory
paved the way for predictive thermal materials discovery and a variety of new physical …

Anharmonic electron-phonon coupling in ultrasoft and locally disordered perovskites

M Zacharias, G Volonakis, F Giustino… - npj Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
Anharmonicity and local disorder (polymorphism) are ubiquitous in perovskite physics,
inducing various phenomena observed in scattering and spectroscopy experiments. Several …

Phonon broadening in high entropy alloys

F Körmann, Y Ikeda, B Grabowski… - npj Computational …, 2017 - nature.com
Refractory high entropy alloys feature outstanding properties making them a promising
materials class for next-generation high-temperature applications. At high temperatures …

Theory of the special displacement method for electronic structure calculations at finite temperature

M Zacharias, F Giustino - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Calculations of electronic and optical properties of solids at finite temperature including
electron-phonon interactions and quantum zero-point renormalization have enjoyed …

Electronic structure of silicene on Ag (111): Strong hybridization effects

S Cahangirov, M Audiffred, P Tang, A Iacomino… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
The electronic structure of the recently synthesized (3× 3) reconstructed silicene on (4× 4)
Ag (111) is investigated by first-principles calculations. New states emerge due to the strong …