Adiabatic Dynamics of Coupled Spins and Phonons in Magnetic Insulators

In conventional ab initio methodologies, phonons are calculated by solving equations of motion involving static interatomic force constants and atomic masses. The Born-Oppenheimer approximation, where all electronic degrees of freedom are assumed to adiabatically follow the nuclear dynamics, is also...

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Main Authors: Shang Ren, John Bonini, Massimiliano Stengel, Cyrus E. Dreyer, David Vanderbilt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2024-03-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.011041