<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear QE developers and users,<br><br></div> When calculating the electron-phonon coupling, the phonon line-width gamma is defined as <br>gamma(q,v) = 2 * pi * omega(q,v) * sum( |g|^2) * delta(E_q) * delta(E_(k+q)). (1)<br><br></div><div>And the electron-phonon coupling strength for mode v at q is<br><br></div><div>lambda(q,v) = gamma(q,v) / (pi * h * N(E_F) * (omega(q,v))^2) (2).<br></div><div><br></div><div>(See <a href="http://www.quantum-espresso.org/wp-content/uploads/Doc/ph_user_guide/node12.html">http://www.quantum-espresso.org/wp-content/uploads/Doc/ph_user_guide/node12.html</a>)<br><br></div><div>Accoding to these<span style="color:rgb(67,67,67);font-family:Tahoma,Arial;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:24px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(242,242,242);display:inline!important;float:none"><span class=""> </span></span>definitions, it seems that the phonon line-width gamma(q,v), electron-phonon coupling strength lambda(q,v) must be BOTH negative when a instable mode with negetive frequency omega(q,v) is calculated.<br><br></div><div>However, I checked the electron phonon coupling I calculated before, I found with a negetive omega(q,v), there are negative lambda(q,v) and positive gamma(q,v). I found some similar report, for example, PHYSICAL REVIEW B 86, 155125 (2012), in which the positive gammas were calculated for the instable mode.<br><br></div><div>That realy puzzles me. Can anybody explain it? <br><br></div><div>Thanks a lot!<br><br></div><div>Best regards,<br></div><div>yours<br></div><div>Ding-Fu Shao<br></div><div><br></div><div> <br><br></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><span style="font-family:Verdana;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(192,192,192)"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="color:blue;font-size:12pt"><b>Ding-Fu Shao, Ph.D <br></b></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span style="color:blue;font-size:12pt">Institute of Solid State Physics</span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span style="color:blue;font-size:12pt">Chinese Academy of Sciences</span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span style="color:blue;font-size:12pt">P. O. Box 1129</span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span style="color:blue;font-size:12pt">Hefei 230031</span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span style="color:blue;font-size:12pt">Anhui Province</span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span style="color:blue;font-size:12pt">P. R. China</span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span style="color:blue;font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(192,192,192);font-weight:normal;font-size:small"><b><span style="color:blue;font-size:12pt"><br></span></b><span style="color:blue;font-size:12pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><font color="#0000ff"><a href="mailto:dingfu.shao@gmail.com" target="_blank"><b></b></a></font></span></span></span></span></b></p></span></div>
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