Electron–phonon interaction in magnesium: From the monolayer to the Mg(0 0 0 1) surface

Abstract

We report ab initio study of the electron–phonon coupling in a free standing magnesium monolayer and at the Mg(0 0 0 1) surface. The calculations were carried out using a linear-response approach in the plane-wave pseudopotential representation. Eliashberg spectral function α 2 F( ω) averaged over electron states at the Fermi surface is presented for the monolayer while for the Mg(0 0 0 1) surface, we compute the electron–phonon spectral function α 2 F k, i ( ω) for surface states at the Γ ¯ and M ¯ points.