zero electron-phonon matrix elements |g|

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simba2828
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zero electron-phonon matrix elements |g|

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Dear all,

I am trying to calculate the electron-phonon matrix elements |g| using EPW and I am getting all the elements to be zero. Is there any specific reason the g's are zero. There should be any non zero value, however small it is? I am attaching my input file (second step), and in the epw.out they all are zero. Should I manipulate the temperature or anything?

Input

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&inputepw
  prefix      = 'aiida',
  amass(1)    = 127.6,
  amass(2)    = 183.84,
  outdir      = './out/'

  elph        = .true.
  epwwrite    = .false.
  epwread     = .true.

  nbndsub     =  6,
  !nbndskip = 0
  bands_skipped = 'exclude_bands = 1:58,65:72'

  wannierize  = .false.
  num_iter    = 1000
  dis_froz_max= 7.0
  dis_froz_min= 2.95

  wdata(1)   = 'dis_mix_ratio   = 0.5'
  wdata(2)   = 'dis_num_iter    = 2000'
  wdata(3)    = 'bands_plot : true'
  wdata(4)    = 'bands_num_points : 300'
  wdata(5)    = 'bands_plot_format : xmgrace gnuplot'
  wdata(6)    = 'begin kpoint_path'
  wdata(7)    = 'G 0.0 0.0 0.0 M 0.5 0.0 0.0' 
  wdata(8)    = 'M 0.5 0.0 0.0 K 0.3333 0.3333 0.0'
  wdata(9)    = 'K 0.3333 0.3333 0.0 G 0.0 0.0 0.0'
  wdata(10)    = 'end kpoint_path'
  wdata(11)   = 'write_tb = true'

  phonselfen = .true.
  delta_approx= .true.
  temps = 0.075
  degaussw    = 0.04 ! eV ~  1/4 of fsthick 
  fsthick     = 0.2  ! eV ~ 4 times the maximum phonon frequency
  
  prtgkk = .true.
   
  dvscf_dir   = '../ph/save'
  
  filqf = 'kpath.dat'

  nkf1        = 32
  nkf2        = 32
  nkf3        = 1

  nk1         = 16
  nk2         = 16
  nk3         = 1

  nq1         = 8
  nq2         = 8
  nq3         = 1
/ 
Output snippet:

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...
           ik =     103 coord.:    0.0937500   0.1875000   0.0000000
      ibnd     jbnd     imode   enk[eV]    enk+q[eV]  omega(q)[meV]   |g|[meV]
     ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        3        3        1      5.3677      5.3677       -0.0000002383    0.0000000000E+00
        3        3        2      5.3677      5.3677        0.0000002221    0.0000000000E+00
        3        3        3      5.3677      5.3677        0.0000005340    0.0000000000E+00
        3        3        4      5.3677      5.3677        1.9987083042    0.0000000000E+00
        3        3        5      5.3677      5.3677        1.9987083042    0.0000000000E+00
        3        3        6      5.3677      5.3677        3.1928043159    0.0000000000E+00
        3        3        7      5.3677      5.3677       13.9545962084    0.0000000000E+00
        3        3        8      5.3677      5.3677       13.9545962084    0.0000000000E+00
        3        3        9      5.3677      5.3677       14.0195163700    0.0000000000E+00
        3        3       10      5.3677      5.3677       14.0195163700    0.0000000000E+00
        3        3       11      5.3677      5.3677       20.4789381341    0.0000000000E+00
        3        3       12      5.3677      5.3677       20.7340609293    0.0000000000E+00
        3        3       13      5.3677      5.3677       22.3928677106    0.0000000000E+00
        3        3       14      5.3677      5.3677       22.3928677106    0.0000000000E+00
        3        3       15      5.3677      5.3677       22.4115456667    0.0000000000E+00
        3        3       16      5.3677      5.3677       22.4115456667    0.0000000000E+00
        3        3       17      5.3677      5.3677       27.9289851564    0.0000000000E+00
        3        3       18      5.3677      5.3677       27.9780553640    0.0000000000E+00
     ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

     ik =     104 coord.:    0.0937500   0.2187500   0.0000000
      ibnd     jbnd     imode   enk[eV]    enk+q[eV]  omega(q)[meV]   |g|[meV]
...

Any suggestions would be welcomed.

Thanks,
Shubham
simba2828
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Re: zero electron-phonon matrix elements |g|

Post by simba2828 »

Could it be because of small negative frequency?
Furthermore, there are six bands in my wannier basis, why the el-ph elements are calculated for the 3rd band only?

Thanks,
Shubham
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Re: zero electron-phonon matrix elements |g|

Post by simba2828 »

Okay I found the issue. It was fsthick which was creating the problem.
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