Electron-phonon beyond Fr\"ohlich: dynamical quadrupoles in polar and covalent solids.
2020
We include quadrupolar fields beyond the Frohlich interaction in the first-principles electron-phonon vertex of semiconductors, and demonstrate their importance in calculations of carrier mobilities. Without such quadrupolar corrections, jump discontinuities for $\mathbf{q} \rightarrow \mathbf{0}$ remain in the short-range components. They lead to Gibbs oscillations in the interpolant, and affect the accuracy of the physical results. We apply our formalism to Si (non-polar), GaAs and GaP (polar). Electron mobilities converge much faster with the initial ab initio $\mathbf{q}$-mesh when dynamical quadrupoles are properly included.
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