Comparative study of the electronic structure, phonon spectra, and electron-phonon interaction of ZrB2 and TiB2

The electronic structure, optical and x-ray absorption spectra, angledependence of the cyclotron masses and extremal cross sections of the Fermisurface, phonon spectra, electron-phonon Eliashberg and transport spectralfunctions, temperature dependence of electrical resistivity of the MB2 (M=Tiand Zr) diborides were investigated from first principles using the fullpotential linear muffin-tin orbital method. The calculations of the dynamicmatrix were carried out within the framework of the linear response theory. Agood agreement with experimental data of optical and x-ray absorption spectra,phonon spectra, electron-phonon spectral functions, electrical resistivity,cyclotron masses and extremal cross sections of the Fermi surface was achieved.