Electron-Phonon Interactions in the Transition Metals

Nonlocal screening, electron-phonon coupling, and phonon renormalization in metals.

A method for calculating the phonon self-energy in metals arising from the coupling between phonons and electrons near the Fermi surface is developed. The essence of this scheme is the separation of the inter- and intraband parts of the electron polarizability. The intraband contribution provides extra screenings and is closely related to the electron-phonon coupling and phonon softening in met...

Electron-phonon coupling and electron heat capacity of metals under conditions of strong electron-phonon nonequilibrium

The dependence of the strength of the electron-phonon coupling and the electron heat capacity on the electron temperature is investigated for eight representative metals, Al, Cu, Ag, Au, Ni, Pt, W, and Ti, for the conditions of strong electron-phonon nonequilibrium. These conditions are characteristic of metal targets subjected to energetic ion bombardment or short-pulse laser irradiation. Comp...

Electron-phonon interactions and superconductivity.

Electron-phonon coupling in the rare-earth metals.

Electron-Phonon and Electron-Electron Interactions in Quantum Transport

The objective of this work is t o shed light on electron transport through sub-micron semiconductor structures, where electronic state quantization, electron-electron interactions and electron-phonon interactions are important. We concentrate here on the most developed vertical quantum device, the double barrier resonant tunneling diode. In this work we analyze particle interactions in two stru...