{"id":191121,"date":"2024-06-12T22:25:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T03:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/new-theory-links-quantum-geometry-to-electron-phonon-coupling"},"modified":"2024-06-12T22:25:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T03:25:27","slug":"new-theory-links-quantum-geometry-to-electron-phonon-coupling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/new-theory-links-quantum-geometry-to-electron-phonon-coupling","title":{"rendered":"New theory links quantum geometry to electron-phonon coupling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-theory-links-quantum-geometry-to-electron-phonon-coupling3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study published in <i>Nature Physics<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-024-02486-0\" target=\"_blank\">introduces a theory<\/a> of electron-phonon coupling that is affected by the quantum geometry of the electronic wavefunctions.<\/p>\n<p>The movement of electrons in a lattice and their interactions with the lattice vibrations (or phonons) play a pivotal role in phenomena like superconductivity (resistance-free conductivity).<\/p>\n<p>Electron-phonon coupling (EPC) is the interaction between free electrons and phonons, which are quasiparticles representing the vibrations of a crystal lattice. EPC leads to the formation of Cooper pairs (pairs of electrons), responsible for superconductivity in certain materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in Nature Physics introduces a theory of electron-phonon coupling that is affected by the quantum geometry of the electronic wavefunctions. The movement of electrons in a lattice and their interactions with the lattice vibrations (or phonons) play a pivotal role in phenomena like superconductivity (resistance-free conductivity). Electron-phonon coupling (EPC) is the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}