Abstract
Relaxation times employed to study electron transport in metals are typically taken to be constants and obtained empirically. Here, we use fully ab initio calculations to compute the electron-phonon relaxation times of Cu, Ag, and Au and find that they vary significantly on the Fermi surface, with values from $\ensuremath{\sim}15$ to 45 fs that are correlated with the Fermi surface topology. We compute room-temperature resistivities in excellent agreement with experiment by combining GW quasiparticle band structures, Wannier-interpolated band velocities, and ab initio relaxation times. We introduce an importance sampling scheme to speed up the convergence of resistivity and transport calculations.
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