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Calculational aspects of electron–phonon coupling at surfaces
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Nojima, Akihiro Yamashita, Koichi Hellsing, Bo |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | We study the validity of two frequently used approximations in calculations of electron–phonon coupling at surfaces. The rigid-ion approximation is a standard approximation used for the bulk metals. On the basis of density functional theory calculations, we find that for Be this approximation is as valid for surface atoms as for bulk atoms. In addition, the slab method for calculations of a phonon induced surface state lifetime is examined. The convergence of the electron–phonon matrix element with respect to the thickness of the slab is studied for several systems. When the number of slab layers is increased, the net effect of decreasing overlap and increasing number of final states depends strongly on the decay length of the surface state wavefunction and the band structure. |
| Starting Page | 224017 |
| Ending Page | 224017 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1088/0953-8984/20/22/224017 |
| Volume Number | 20 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://fy.chalmers.se/~hellsing/publications/JPhysCondMat_8_22_224017.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984%2F20%2F22%2F224017 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
