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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 85, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.155115
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- University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU [GIC07-IT-366-07]
- Departamento de Educacion del Gobierno Vasco
- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [FIS2010-19609-C02-01]
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The electron-phonon interaction in bulk Pb and the influence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on the pairing strength are investigated within the density-functional theory and linear-response approach in the mixed-basis pseudopotential representation. We find that the SOC-induced modifications of both electronic bands and lattice vibrations result in striking changes in the phonon-induced scattering of excited electrons (holes). The strength of the momentum-averaged electron-phonon interaction lambda(E) ranges from 0 to 2.5 while the contribution to lambda(E) from particular electronic states can even exceed 4. It is found that the coupling strength is exceedingly strong for phonon-induced transitions between electronic states of p and d symmetry. The electron-phonon coupling in Pb also shows a band dependence which, in particular, results in two different sets of electron-phonon coupling parameters on the two sheets of the Fermi surface.
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