Dear QE users,<br><div><br></div><div>Referring to example07 about electron-phonon cooupling, the calculation ends up finding nonzero line-widths (gamma) at q=0 (printed in elph. 0.000000. 0.000000. 0.000000 file). </div><div>
I find this rather odd, since the electron-phonon matrix elements "g" should vanish at q=0. This can be seen from the explicit form of the interaction term in Fourier expansion,</div><div>which contains a dot product of q with the phonon polarization vector. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Could anyone explain the reason for the nonzero values? Could it be related to the fact that at q=0 acoustic sum rules not enforced in the calculation of the line-width? </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div>
<div><br></div><div>Burak Himmetoglu<div><br></div><div><div>Post-Doctoral Associate</div><div>Materials Department</div><div>University of California at Santa Barbara</div><div>CA 93106</div></div></div>