Abstract
We compute the electron-phonon coupling (EPC) of selected phonon modes in graphene and graphite using various ab initio methods. The inclusion of nonlocal exchange-correlation effects within the approach strongly renormalizes the square EPC of the mode by almost 80% with respect to density-functional theory in the LDA and GGA approximations. Within GW, the phonon slope of the mode is almost two times larger than in GGA and LDA, in agreement with phonon dispersions from inelastic x-ray scattering and Raman spectroscopy. The hybrid B3LYP functional overestimates the EPC at by about 30%. Within the Hartree-Fock approximation, the graphene structure displays an instability under a distortion following the phonon at .
- Received 29 May 2008
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.78.081406
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