Publications associées à Polaron

Nonempirical semilocal density functionals for correcting the self-interaction of polaronic states

Through the use of the piecewise-linearity condition of the total energy, we correct the self-interaction for the study of polarons by constructing nonempirical functionals at the semilocal level of theory. We consider two functionals, the gamma DFT and mu ...

Aip Publishing2024

Polaron hopping through piecewise-linear functionals

Alfredo Pasquarello, Stefano Falletta

We use piecewise-linear functionals to study the polaron energy landscape and hopping rates in beta-Ga2O3, which we adopt as an example of an anisotropic material hosting multiple polaronic states. We illustrate various functionals for polaron localization ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Self-Interaction and Polarons in Density Functional Theory

Stefano Falletta

The electron self-interaction is a long-standing problem in density functional theory and is particularly critical in the description of polarons. Polarons are quasiparticles involving charge localization coupled with self-induced lattice distortions. Sinc ...

EPFL2023

Electron-phonon driven unconventional superconductivity: The role of small Fermi energies and of nonadiabatic processes

Claudio Grimaldi

The very concept of high-T-c superconductivity has originated from the discovery of superconductivity in copper oxides by Bednorz and Muller in 1986. Soon after their discovery, cuprates were recognized as undoubtedly complex and radically unconventional s ...

Elsevier2023

Polarons free from many-body self-interaction in density functional theory

Alfredo Pasquarello, Stefano Falletta

We develop a unified theoretical framework encompassing one-body and many-body forms of self-interaction. We find an analytic expression for both the one-body and the many-body self-interaction energies, and quantitatively connect the two expressions throu ...

2022

Hubbard U through polaronic defect states

Alfredo Pasquarello, Stefano Falletta

Since the preliminary work of Anisimov and co-workers, the Hubbard corrected DFT+U functional has been used for predicting properties of correlated materials by applying on-site effective Coulomb interactions to specific orbitals. However, the determinatio ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Evidence of a coupled electron-phonon liquid in NbGe2

Mathieu François Padlewski, Matthias Carsten Putzke, Philip Johannes Walter Moll, Hao Yang

Whereas electron-phonon scattering relaxes the electron's momentum in metals, a perpetual exchange of momentum between phonons and electrons may conserve total momentum and lead to a coupled electron-phonon liquid. Such a phase of matter could be a platfor ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Interaction of Confined Polaritons in Microcavity Structures

Morteza Navadeh Toupchi

A polariton is a quasiparticle formed from the coupling of a confined photon in a cavity to electronic excitation, like exciton in a semiconductor. This dissertation reports on series of experiments in confined polariton interaction by design, fabrication, ...

EPFL2021

Ab Initio Electron-Phonon Interactions in Correlated Electron Systems

Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov, Matteo Cococcioni, Andrea Floris

Electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions are pervasive in condensed matter, governing phenomena such as transport, superconductivity, charge-density waves, polarons, and metal-insulator transitions. First-principles approaches enable accurate calculations of e- ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Direct measurement of key exciton properties: Energy, dynamics, and spatial distribution of the wave function

Michele Puppin, Martin Wolf

Excitons, Coulomb-bound electron-hole pairs, are the fundamental excitations governing the optoelectronic properties of semiconductors. Although optical signatures of excitons have been studied extensively, experimental access to the excitonic wave functio ...

Wiley2021