Application of the exact-factorization density-functional perturbation approach to pentacene crystal and monolayer MoS2

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Autori principali: Steinitz-Eliyahu, Rachel, Cohen, Galit, Vosco, Guy, Gross, E. K. U., Requist, Ryan, Refaely-Abramson, Sivan
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author Steinitz-Eliyahu, Rachel
Cohen, Galit
Vosco, Guy
Gross, E. K. U.
Requist, Ryan
Refaely-Abramson, Sivan
author_facet Steinitz-Eliyahu, Rachel
Cohen, Galit
Vosco, Guy
Gross, E. K. U.
Requist, Ryan
Refaely-Abramson, Sivan
contents Non-adiabatic effects arising from electron-phonon interactions are often neglected within the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation, which assumes that electronic states adjust instantaneously to nuclear motion. The exact factorization (EF) formalism provides a rigorous framework for treating such effects beyond the adiabatic regime and has recently been adapted to density functional theory (DFT) in the harmonic limit. Building on these foundations, we previously introduced an EF-based perturbative scheme, the EF density-functional perturbation theory (EF-DFPT), that enables the computation of phonon-driven non-adiabatic (NA) corrections to Kohn-Sham (KS) electronic states, up to second order in nuclear displacements. Here, we present the first implementation and application of EF-DFPT to extended periodic materials, focusing on its impact on experimentally relevant observables. Using the pentacene molecular crystal and monolayer MoS2 as representative soft- and stiff-mode systems, respectively, we demonstrate how NA electron-phonon interactions modify the static dielectric response. We show that these modifications originate from the combined effect of NA phonon-dressed electronic wavefunctions and second-order NA energy renormalizations. The resulting behavior is strongly material dependent: NA effects are negligible in monolayer MoS2, whereas in pentacene they lead to pronounced long-range screening effects associated with soft vibrational modes and enhanced electron-phonon coupling.
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spellingShingle Application of the exact-factorization density-functional perturbation approach to pentacene crystal and monolayer MoS2
Steinitz-Eliyahu, Rachel
Cohen, Galit
Vosco, Guy
Gross, E. K. U.
Requist, Ryan
Refaely-Abramson, Sivan
Materials Science
Non-adiabatic effects arising from electron-phonon interactions are often neglected within the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation, which assumes that electronic states adjust instantaneously to nuclear motion. The exact factorization (EF) formalism provides a rigorous framework for treating such effects beyond the adiabatic regime and has recently been adapted to density functional theory (DFT) in the harmonic limit. Building on these foundations, we previously introduced an EF-based perturbative scheme, the EF density-functional perturbation theory (EF-DFPT), that enables the computation of phonon-driven non-adiabatic (NA) corrections to Kohn-Sham (KS) electronic states, up to second order in nuclear displacements. Here, we present the first implementation and application of EF-DFPT to extended periodic materials, focusing on its impact on experimentally relevant observables. Using the pentacene molecular crystal and monolayer MoS2 as representative soft- and stiff-mode systems, respectively, we demonstrate how NA electron-phonon interactions modify the static dielectric response. We show that these modifications originate from the combined effect of NA phonon-dressed electronic wavefunctions and second-order NA energy renormalizations. The resulting behavior is strongly material dependent: NA effects are negligible in monolayer MoS2, whereas in pentacene they lead to pronounced long-range screening effects associated with soft vibrational modes and enhanced electron-phonon coupling.
title Application of the exact-factorization density-functional perturbation approach to pentacene crystal and monolayer MoS2
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11094