<div dir="ltr">Prof. Giannozzi,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your reply. Yes I also think the formula is valid only for single-atom unit cells. </div><div><br></div><div>I checked Ziman's textbook and it looks like there needs to be a summation over the atoms in the unit cell for a multi-atom cell. Can I assume that QE (5.0.3) implements the correct formula for multi-atom unit cell although the formula given in the user guide is only valid for a single atom cell? </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Sridhar</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Paolo Giannozzi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paolo.giannozzi@uniud.it" target="_blank">paolo.giannozzi@uniud.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">M should be the nuclear mass, if I remember correctly (these<br>
formulas are valid for crystals with a single kind of atoms,<br>
if I remember correctly)<br>
<br>
P.<br>
<div><div class="h5"><br>
On Sat, 2014-05-17 at 18:02 +0530, Sridhar Sadasivam wrote:<br>
> Dear QE users and developers,<br>
><br>
><br>
> I am writing to ask for a small clarification in the formula that<br>
> defines the electron-phonon coupling matrix element (Equation 1 in the<br>
> phonon user guide:<br>
> <a href="http://www.quantum-espresso.org/wp-content/uploads/Doc/ph_user_guide.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.quantum-espresso.org/wp-content/uploads/Doc/ph_user_guide.pdf</a> )<br>
><br>
><br>
> What is 'M' in Equation 1? Is it the total mass of the unit cell?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Sridhar<br>
> Purdue University<br>
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