Electron-phonon interactions and Kohn anomalies

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Electron-phonon interactions

Free electrons in lattice

Phonons: crystal vibrations

Lattice Vibration and Phonons in 1D

Acoustical and Optical Phonon in 3D

Derivation of Hamiltonian Electron-Phonon Coupling

The Hamiltonian for the electron-phonon interaction can be described as

Where

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Feynman diagrams of electron-phonon coupling

Electron-phonon interaction in the lattice model

Jellium model

The Polaron problem

Linear response calculations of electron-phonon interactions

Kohn anomalies

Examples