Acknowledgements

EPW is released under the GNU General Public License v2. The use of EPW in scientific publications can be acknowledged by citing the associated papers:

Technical manuscripts for specific releases

Versions 5.7 and above, and ZG code:

H. Lee, S. Poncé, K. Bushick, S. Hajinazar, J. Lafuente-Bartolome, J. Leveillee, C. Lian, J. Lihm, F. Macheda, H. Mori, H. Paudyal, W. Sio, S. Tiwari, M. Zacharias, X. Zhang, N. Bonini, E. Kioupakis, E.R. Margine, and F. Giustino, npj Comput. Mater. 9, 156 (2023)

Versions 3.0 through 5.6:

S. Poncé, E. R. Margine, C. Verdi, and F. Giustino, Comput. Phys. Comm. 209, 116 (2016)

Version 2.0:

J. Noffsinger, et al, Comput. Phys. Comm. 181, 2140 (2010)

Methodology underlying EPW

General method:

F. Giustino, M. L. Cohen, and S. G. Louie, Phys. Rev. B 76, 165108 (2007)

Fröhlich corrections to electron-phonon matrix elements:

C. Verdi and F. Giustino, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 176401 (2015)

Specific modules of EPW

Superconductivity:

E. R. Margine and F. Giustino, Phys. Rev. B 87, 024505 (2013)

Boltzmann transport:

S. Poncé, E. R. Margine and F. Giustino, Phys. Rev. B 97, 121201 (2018)

Indirect absorption:

J. Noffsinger, E. Kioupakis, C. G. Van de Walle, S. G. Louie, and M. L. Cohen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 167402 (2012)

Quadi-degenerate perturbation theory of direct and indirect absorption:

S. Tiwari, E. Kioupakis, J. Menendez, and F. Giustino, Phys. Rev. B 109, 195127 (2024)

Special displacements:

M. Zacharias and F. Giustino, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 013357 (2020)

Additional contributions to the code

• Paolo Giannozzi (Università di Udine): Debug and code alignment with QE

• Fabio Caruso (Humboldt University): Initial implementation of plasmons and cumulant

• Xiaolong Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences): Initial implementation of SOC

• Shunhong Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China): Convert dyn file to XML