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New Directions in Calculating Electron-Phonon Interactions

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A discussion of the role of recent advances for calculating electronphonon coupling constants is given. The focus is on an ab initio self-consistent pseudopotential approach which requires only the atomic number and atomic mass as material parameters.

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Cohen, M.L. (1987). New Directions in Calculating Electron-Phonon Interactions. In: Orbach, R.L. (eds) Condensed Matter Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4772-2_11

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