On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Carlo Motta <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> is it possible to compute the electron-phonon couplings for insulating
> systems?
>

it is in principle possible to compute electron-phonon matrix elements for
insulators,
but the so-called "electron-phonon coupling coefficients" lambda appearing
in the theory of
superconductivity is defined only for metals

Paolo

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