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 …

Phonons and related crystal properties from density-functional perturbation theory

S Baroni, S De Gironcoli, A Dal Corso… - Reviews of modern Physics, 2001 - APS
This article reviews the current status of lattice-dynamical calculations in crystals, using
density-functional perturbation theory, with emphasis on the plane-wave pseudopotential …

Dynamical matrices, Born effective charges, dielectric permittivity tensors, and interatomic force constants from density-functional perturbation theory

X Gonze, C Lee - Physical Review B, 1997 - APS
Starting from the knowledge of first-order changes of wave functions and density with
respect to small atomic displacements or infinitesimal homogeneous electric fields within the …

Macroscopic polarization in crystalline dielectrics: the geometric phase approach

R Resta - Reviews of modern physics, 1994 - APS
The macroscopic electric polarization of a crystal is often defined as the dipole of a unit cell.
In fact, such a dipole moment is ill defined, and the above definition is incorrect. Looking …

Generalized Kohn-Sham schemes and the band-gap problem

A Seidl, A Görling, P Vogl, JA Majewski, M Levy - Physical Review B, 1996 - APS
As an alternative to the standard Kohn-Sham procedure, other exact realizations of density-
functional theory (generalized Kohn-Sham methods) are presented. The corresponding …

First-principles responses of solids to atomic displacements and homogeneous electric fields: Implementation of a conjugate-gradient algorithm

X Gonze - Physical Review B, 1997 - APS
The changes in density, wave functions, and self-consistent potentials of solids, in response
to small atomic displacements or infinitesimal homogeneous electric fields, are considered …

Intrinsic lattice thermal conductivity of semiconductors from first principles

DA Broido, M Malorny, G Birner, N Mingo… - Applied Physics …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
We present an ab initio theoretical approach to accurately describe phonon thermal
transport in semiconductors and insulators free of adjustable parameters. This technique …

Coherent phonon heat conduction in superlattices

MN Luckyanova, J Garg, K Esfarjani, A Jandl… - Science, 2012 - science.org
The control of heat conduction through the manipulation of phonons as coherent waves in
solids is of fundamental interest and could also be exploited in applications, but coherent …

Thermal conductivity of bulk and nanowire MgSiSn alloys from first principles

W Li, L Lindsay, DA Broido, DA Stewart, N Mingo - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
The lattice thermal conductivity (κ) of the thermoelectric materials, Mg 2 Si, Mg 2 Sn, and
their alloys, are calculated for bulk and nanowires, without adjustable parameters. We find …

Mixed quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical molecular dynamics simulations of biological systems in ground and electronically excited states

E Brunk, U Rothlisberger - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The quantum nature of electrons and nuclei is manifested in countless biological events
including the rearrangements of electrons in biochemical reactions, electron and proton …