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The temperature dependence of electronic eigenenergies in the adiabatic harmonic approximation
The renormalization of electronic eigenenergies due to electron-phonon
interactions (temperature dependence and zero-point motion effect) is important
in many materials. We address it in the adiabatic harmonic approximation, based
on first principles (e.g. Density-Functional Theory), from different points of
view: directly from atomic position fluctuations or, alternatively, from
Janak's theorem generalized to the case where the Helmholtz free energy,
including the vibrational entropy, is used. We prove their equivalence, based
on the usual form of Janak's theorem and on the dynamical equation. We then
also place the Allen-Heine-Cardona (AHC) theory of the renormalization in a
first-principle context. The AHC theory relies on the rigid-ion approximation,
and naturally leads to a self-energy (Fan) contribution and a Debye-Waller
contribution. Such a splitting can also be done for the complete harmonic
adiabatic expression, in which the rigid-ion approximation is not required. A
numerical study within the Density-Functional Perturbation theory framework
allows us to compare the AHC theory with frozen-phonon calculations, with or
without the rigid-ion terms. For the two different numerical approaches without
rigid-ion terms, the agreement is better than 7 eV in the case of diamond,
which represent an agreement to 5 significant digits. The magnitude of the non
rigid-ion terms in this case is also presented, distinguishing specific phonon
modes contributions to different electronic eigenenergies
Pour mémoire – François Chappé
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Reconstruction of source location in a network of gravitational wave interferometric detectors
This paper deals with the reconstruction of the direction of a gravitational
wave source using the detection made by a network of interferometric detectors,
mainly the LIGO and Virgo detectors. We suppose that an event has been seen in
coincidence using a filter applied on the three detector data streams. Using
the arrival time (and its associated error) of the gravitational signal in each
detector, the direction of the source in the sky is computed using a chi^2
minimization technique. For reasonably large signals (SNR>4.5 in all
detectors), the mean angular error between the real location and the
reconstructed one is about 1 degree. We also investigate the effect of the
network geometry assuming the same angular response for all interferometric
detectors. It appears that the reconstruction quality is not uniform over the
sky and is degraded when the source approaches the plane defined by the three
detectors. Adding at least one other detector to the LIGO-Virgo network reduces
the blind regions and in the case of 6 detectors, a precision less than 1
degree on the source direction can be reached for 99% of the sky.Comment: Accepted in Phys. Rev.
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