ElectronPhononCoupling

ElectronPhononCoupling (EPC) is a python module to analyze electron-phonon related quantities computed with Abinit.

Istallation

Issue

>$ python setup.py install

Requires

• numpy >= 1.8.1
• mpi4py >= 2.0.0
• netCDF4 >= 1.2.1

Building the netCDF4 dependency is sometimes delicate. On certain systems, it might be necessary to set the CC environment variable to the same compiler that was used to build python. E.g. CC=gcc

Usage

Example:

import ElectronPhononCoupling as epc

epc.compute(

renormalization=True, broadening=True, self_energy=True, spectral_function=True, temperature=True, ...

You can run such python script in parallel with, e.g.:

mpirun -n 4 python myscript.py

Documentation

• For how to use this module, see the Examples directory.
• For the theory pertaining the electronic self-energy due to electron-phonon coupling, and temperature dependence of electronic structure, see [PRB 92, 085137 (2015)].
• For the advanced user and developer, see the Doc directory.