Equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium over-screening free phonon self-energy in realistic materials

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02573v2
• Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:25:18 GMT
• Title: Equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium over-screening free phonon self-energy in realistic materials
• Authors: Andrea Marini
• Abstract summary: In model Hamiltonians, like Fr"ohlich's, the electron-phonon interaction is assumed to be screened from the beginning. I demonstrate that these approaches are affected by a severe over-screening error.
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• Abstract: In model Hamiltonians, like Fr\"ohlich's, the electron-phonon interaction is assumed to be screened from the beginning. The same occurs when this interaction is obtained by using the state-of-the-art density functional perturbation theory as starting point. In this work I formally demonstrate that these approaches are affected by a severe over-screening error. By using an out-of-equilibrium Many-Body technique I discuss how to merge the many-body approach with density-functional perturbation theory in order to correct the over-screening error. A symmetric statically screened phonon self-energy is obtained by down-folding the exact Baym-Kadanoff equations. The statically screened approximation proposed here is shown to have the same long-range spatial limit of the exact self-energy and to respect the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. The doubly screened approximation, commonly used in the literature, is shown, instead, to be over-screened, to violate several Many-Body properties and to have a wrong spatial long-range decay. The accuracy of the proposed approximation is tested against the exact solution of an extended model Fr\"ohlich Hamiltonian and it is applied to a paradigmatic material: MgB$_2$. I find that the present treatment enhances the linewidths by $57 \%$ with respect to what has been previously reported for the anomalous $E_{2g}$ mode. I further discover that the $A_{2u}$ mode is also anomalous (its strong coupling being completely quenched by the over-screened expression). The present results deeply question methods based on state-of-the-art approaches and impact a wide range of fields such as thermal conductivity, phononic instabilities and non-equilibrium lattice dynamics.

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