Phonons at finite temperature

ORAL

Abstract

We present recent developments using the temperature dependent effective potential technique (TDEP) to model strongly non-harmonic materials. The method employs model Hamiltonians that explicitly depend on temperature. I will present applications pertaining to thermal conductivity, inelastic neutron spectra and phase stabilities. In addition, we investigate the non-adiabatic electron-phonon coupling and their influence on phonon spectra, and recent additions to that deal with nuclear quantum effects and efficient stochastic sampling.

*Supported by the EFRI program of the National Science foundation under Grant No.1433467, and by the S3TEC EFRC of the US DOE Office of Basic Energy Science under Award DESC0001299.

Presenters

  • Olle Hellman

    • Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, Caltech
    • Linkoping University
    • IFM, Linkoping University

Authors

  • Olle Hellman

    • Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, Caltech
    • Linkoping University
    • IFM, Linkoping University