Publications
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J. Yao, I. Maliyov, D. J. Gardner, C. S. Woodward, M. Bernardi
Advancing Simulations of Coupled Electron and Phonon Nonequilibrium Dynamics
Using Adaptive and Multirate Time Integration
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Y. Luo, J. Park, M. Bernardi
First-principles diagrammatic Monte Carlo for electron-phonon interactions and polarons
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B.K. Chang, I. Timrov, J. Park, J.-J. Zhou, N. Marzari, M. Bernardi
First-principles electron-phonon interactions and polarons in the parent cuprate La2CuO4.
Submitted. Preprint: arXiv 2401.11322
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B. K. Chang, M. Bernardi
Bandlike charge transport and electron-phonon coupling in organic molecular crystals.
J. Phys. Condens. Matter 2025 37, 095704.
2024
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D.J. Abramovitch, J. Mravlje, J.-J. Zhou, A. Georges, M. Bernardi
Respective roles of electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions
in the transport and quasiparticle properties of SrVO3
Physical Review Letters 2024 133, 186501.
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Y. Luo, D. Desai, B. K. Chang, J. Park, M. Bernardi
Data-driven compression of electron-phonon interactions.
Physical Review X 2024, 14, 021023.
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S. Gao, J.-J. Zhou, Y. Luo, M. Bernardi
First-principles electron-phonon interactions and electronic transport
in large-angle twisted bilayer graphene.
Physical Review Materials 2024, 8, L051001
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I. Maliyov, J. Yin, J. Yao, C. Yang, M. Bernardi
Dynamic mode decomposition of nonequilibrium electron-phonon dynamics:
accelerating the first-principles real-time Boltzmann equation.
npj Computational Materials 2024, 10, 123
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F. Liu, Z. Yang, D. Abramovitch, S. Guo, K.A. Mkhoyan, M. Bernardi, B. Jalan
Deep-ultraviolet transparent conducting SrSnO3 via heterostructure design.
Science Advances 2024 10, eadq7892.
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Y. Huang, P. Sun, S. W. Teitelbaum, H. Li, Y. Sun, N. Wang, S. Song, T. Sato, M. Chollet, T. Osaka, I. Inoue, R. A. Duncan, H. D. Shin, J. Haber, J.-J. Zhou, M. Bernardi, M. Gu, J. M. Rondinelli, M. Trigo, M. Yabashi, A. A. Maznev, K. A. Nelson, D. Zhu, D. A. Reis
Hard X-ray Generation and Detection of Nanometer-Scale Localized Coherent Acoustic Wave Packets in SrTiO3 and KTaO3.
Physical Review X 2024, 14, 041010.
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D. Zhong, S. Gao, M. Saccone, J. Greer, M. Bernardi, S. Nadj-Perge, A. Faraon
Carbon-Related Quantum Emitter in Hexagonal Boron Nitride with Homogeneous Energy
and Three-fold Polarization.
Nano Letters 2024, 24, 1106.
2023
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M. Bernardi
Efficient Mean-Field Simulation of Quantum Circuits Inspired by Density Functional Theory.
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2023, 19, 8066.
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D. Abramovitch, J.-J. Zhou, J. Mravlje, A. Georges, M. Bernardi
Combining electron-phonon and dynamical mean field theory calculations of correlated materials:
transport in the correlated metal Sr2RuO4.
Physical Review Materials 2023 7, 093801. (Editor's Suggestion)
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M. Bernardi
Computing Electron Dynamics in Momentum Space.
Nature Computational Science 2023 3, 480.
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D. Desai, J. Park, J.-J. Zhou, M. Bernardi
Dominant two-dimensional electron-phonon interactions in the bulk Dirac semimetal Na3Bi.
Nano Letters 2023 23, 3947.
2022
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H.-Y. Chen, D. Sangalli, M. Bernardi
First-Principles Ultrafast Exciton Dynamics and Time-Domain Spectroscopies:
Dark-Exciton Mediated Valley Depolarization in Monolayer WSe2.
Physical Review Research 2022 4, 043203.
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J. Park, Y. Luo, J.-J. Zhou, M. Bernardi
Many-Body Theory of Phonon-Induced Spin Relaxation and Decoherence.
Physical Review B 2022 106, 174404 (Editor's Suggestion)
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J. Park, J.-J. Zhou, Y. Luo, M. Bernardi
Predicting Phonon-Induced Spin Decoherence from First Principles:
Colossal Spin Renormalization in Condensed Matter.
Physical Review Letters 2022 129, 197201.
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H.-Y. Chen, A. Mitridate, T. Trickle, Z. Zhang, M. Bernardi, K. M. Zurek
Dark Matter Direct Detection in Materials with Spin-Orbit Coupling.
Physical Review D 2022 106, 015024.
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Y. Luo, B. K. Chang, M. Bernardi
Comparison of the Canonical Transformation and Energy Functional Formalisms
for Ab Initio Calculations of Self-Localized Polarons.
Physical Review B 2022 105, 155132.
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B. K. Chang, J.-J. Zhou, N.-E. Lee, M. Bernardi
Intermediate Polaronic Charge Transport in Organic Crystals from a Many-Body First Principles Approach.
npj Computational Materials 2022 8, 63.
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I.-T. Lu, J.-J. Zhou, J. Park, M. Bernardi
Ab Initio Ionized-Impurity Scattering and Charge Transport in Doped Materials.
Physical Review Materials 2022 6, L010801.
2021
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I. Maliyov, J. Park, M. Bernardi
Ab Initio Electron Dynamics in High Electric Fields: Accurate Predictions of Velocity-Field Curves.
Physical Review B 2021 104, L100303. -
J.-J. Zhou, J. Park, I. Timrov, A. Floris, M. Cococcioni, N. Marzari, M. Bernardi
Ab Initio electron-phonon interactions in correlated electron systems.
Physical Review Letters 2021 127, 126404. -
N.-E. Lee, H.-Y. Chen, J.-J. Zhou, M. Bernardi
Facile ab initio approach for self-localized polarons from canonical transformations.
Physical Review Materials 2021 5, 063805. -
T. Truttmann, J.-J. Zhou, I-T. Lu, A. Rajapitamahuni, F. Liu, M. Bernardi and B. Jalan
Combined Experimental-Theoretical Study of Electron Mobility-Limiting Mechanisms in SrSnO3.
Communications Physics 2021, 4, 241. -
S. Gao, H.-Y. Chen, M. Bernardi
Radiative Properties of Quantum Emitters in Boron Nitride from Excited State Calculations and Bayesian Analysis.
npj Computational Materials 2021 7, 85. -
X. Tong, M. Bernardi
Toward precise simulations of the coupled ultrafast dynamics of electrons and atomic vibrations in materials.
Physical Review Research 2021 3, 023072. -
D.C. Desai, B. Zviazhynski, J.-J. Zhou, M. Bernardi
Magnetotransport in semiconductors and two-dimensional materials from first principles.
Physical Review B 2021 103, L161103 (Editor's suggestion). -
J.-J. Zhou, J. Park, I.-T. Lu, I. Maliyov, X. Tong, M. Bernardi
PERTURBO: A software package for ab initio electron-phonon interactions, charge transport and ultrafast dynamics.
Comput. Phys. Commun. 2021, 264, 107970.
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2020
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V. Jhalani, J.-J. Zhou, J. Park, C. E. Dreyer, M. Bernardi
Piezoelectric Electron-Phonon Interaction from Ab Initio Dynamical Quadrupoles:
Impact on Charge Transport in Wurtzite GaN.
Physical Review Letters 2020 125, 136602 -
J. Park, J.-J. Zhou, V. Jhalani, C. E. Dreyer, M. Bernardi
Long-Range Quadrupole Electron-Phonon Interaction from First Principles.
Physical Review B 2020 102, 125203 -
H.-Y. Chen, D. Sangalli, M. Bernardi
Exciton-Phonon Interaction and Relaxation Times from First Principles.
Physical Review Letters 2020 125, 107401 -
M. Bernardi
Physical Origin of the One-Quarter Exact Exchange in Density Functional Theory.
J. Phys. Condens. Matter 2020 32, 385501. -
N.-E. Lee, J.-J. Zhou, H.-Y. Chen, M. Bernardi
Ab Initio Electron-Two-Phonon Scattering in GaAs from Next-to-Leading Order Perturbation Theory.
Nature Communications 2020 11, 1607. -
I.-T. Lu, J. Park, J.-J. Zhou, M. Bernardi
Ab Initio Electron-Defect Interactions Using Wannier Functions.
npj Computational Materials 2020 6, 17. -
J. Park, J.-J. Zhou, M. Bernardi
Spin-Phonon Relaxation Times in Centrosymmetric Materials from First Principles.
Physical Review B 2020 101, 045202
2019
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J.-J. Zhou, M. Bernardi
Predicting Charge Transport in the Presence of Polarons: The Beyond-Quasiparticle Regime in SrTiO3.
Physical Review Research 2019 1, 033138.
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V. Jhalani, H.-Y. Chen, M. Palummo, M. Bernardi
Precise Radiative Lifetimes in Bulk Crystals from First Principles: The Case of Wurtzite GaN.
J. Phys. Condens. Matter 2019 32, 084001.
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H.-Y. Chen, V. A. Jhalani, M. Palummo, M. Bernardi
Ab Initio Calculations of Exciton Radiative Lifetimes in Bulk Crystals, Nanostructures and Molecules.
Physical Review B 2019 100, 075135. -
I.-T. Lu, J.-J. Zhou, M. Bernardi
Efficient Ab Initio Calculations of Electron-Defect Scattering and Defect-Limited Carrier Mobility.
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A. J. Martinolich, C.-W. Lee, I-T. Lu, S. Bevilacqua, M. Preefer, M. Bernardi, A. Schleife and K. See
Solid-State Divalent Ion Conduction in ZnPS3
Chem. Mater. 2019 31, 3652.
2018
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J.-J. Zhou, O. Hellman, M. Bernardi
Electron-Phonon Scattering in the Presence of Soft Modes
and Electron Mobility in SrTiO3 Perovskite from First Principles.
Physical Review Letters 2018 121, 226603.
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L. Agapito, M. Bernardi
Ab Initio Electron-Phonon Interactions Using Atomic Orbital Wavefunctions.
Physical Review B 2018 97, 235146. -
H.-Y. Chen, M. Palummo, D. Sangalli, M. Bernardi
Theory and Ab Initio Computation of the Anisotropic Light Emission
in Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.
Nano Letters 2018 18, 3839. -
K. Frohna, T. Deshpande, J. Harter, W. Peng, B. A. Barker,
J. B. Neaton, S. G. Louie, O. M. Bakr, D. Hsieh, M. Bernardi
Inversion Symmetry and Bulk Rashba Effect in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Single Crystals.
Nature Communications 2018 9, 1829.
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N.-E. Lee, J.-J. Zhou, L. Agapito, M. Bernardi
Charge Transport in Organic Molecular Semiconductors from First Principles:
The Band-Like Hole Mobility in Naphthalene Crystal.
Physical Review B 2018 97, 115203. -
M. Bernardi and J.C. Grossman
Photovoltaics: Advances in First Principles Modeling - Overview.
Handbook of Materials Modeling: Applications: Current and Emerging Materials 2018 pages 1-8.
2017
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V. A. Jhalani*, J.-J. Zhou*, M. Bernardi
Ultrafast Hot Carrier Dynamics in GaN and its Impact on the Efficiency Droop.
Nano Letters 2017 17, 5012. (*Equal contributors).
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E. Najafi, V. Ivanov, A. Zewail, M. Bernardi
Super-Diffusion of Excited Carriers in Semiconductors.
Nature Communications 2017 8, 15177.
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I. Lu, M. Bernardi
Using Defects to Store Energy in Materials - a Computational Study.
Scientific Reports 2017 7, 3403.
2016
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J.-J. Zhou, M. Bernardi
Ab initio Electron Mobility and Polar Phonon Scattering in GaAs.
Physical Review B (Rapid Communication) 2016 94, 201201. -
M. Bernardi
First-Principles Dynamics of Electrons and Phonons.
European Journal of Physics B 2016 89, 239.
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M. Bernardi and J. C. Grossman
Computer Calculations across Time and Length Scales in Photovoltaics.
Energy and Environmental Science 2016 9, 2197. -
J. Mustafa*, M. Bernardi*, J. B. Neaton, S. G. Louie
Ab Initio Electronic Relaxation Times and Transport in Noble Metals.
Physical Review B 2016 94, 155105. (*Equal Contributors). -
M. Bernardi, C. Ataca, M. Palummo, J. C. Grossman
Optical and Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional Layered Materials.
Nanophotonics 2016 5, 111. -
M. Bernardi, J. Mustafa, J. B. Neaton, S. G. Louie
Theory and Computation of Hot Carriers Generated by Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Noble Metals.
Nature Communications 2015 6, 7044. -
M. Bernardi, D. Vigil-Fowler, C. S. Ong, J. B. Neaton, S. G. Louie
Ab Initio Study of Hot Electrons in GaAs.
Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. (PNAS) 2015, 112, 5291. -
M. Palummo*, M. Bernardi*, J. C. Grossman
Exciton Radiative Lifetimes in Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.
Nano Letters 2015 15, 2794. (*Equal Contributors). -
M. Bernardi, D. Vigil-Fowler, J. Lischner, J. B. Neaton, S. G. Louie
Ab Initio Study of Hot Carriers in the First Picosecond after Sunlight Absorption in Silicon.
Physical Review Letters 2014 112, 257402.
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M. Gong, T. A. Shastry, Y. Xie, M. Bernardi, D. Jasion, K. A. Luck,
T. J. Marks, J. C. Grossman, S. Ren, M. Hersam
Polychiral Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube-Fullerene Solar Cells.
Nano Letters 2014 14, 5308.
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F. Risplendi, M. Bernardi, G. Cicero, J. C. Grossman
Structure-Property Relations in Amorphous Carbon for Photovoltaics.
Applied Physics Letters 2014, 105, 043903. -
A. El-Ballouli, E. Alarousu, M. Bernardi, S. Aly, A. LaGrow, O. Bakr, O. Mohammed
Quantum Confinement-Tunable Ultrafast Charge Transfer at the PbS Quantum Dot and PCBM Fullerene Interface.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014 136, 6952.
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M. Bernardi, J. C. Grossman
Optimal Sunlight Harvesting in Photovoltaics and Photosynthesis.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2013 117, 26896. -
M. Bernardi, M. Palummo, J. C. Grossman
Extraordinary Sunlight Absorption and 1 nm-Thick Photovoltaics using Two-Dimensional Monolayer Materials.
Nano Letters 2013 13, 3664. Cited over 1,000 times.
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P. V. Kumar, M. Bernardi, J. C. Grossman
The Impact of Functionalization on the Stability, Work Function and Photoluminescence of Reduced Graphene Oxide.
ACS Nano 2013 7, 1638. -
M. Bernardi, M. Palummo, J. C. Grossman
Semiconducting Monolayer Materials as a Tunable Platform for Excitonic Solar Cells.
ACS Nano 2012 6, 10082. -
M. Bernardi, J. Lohrman, P. Kumar, A. Kirkeminde, N. Ferralis, J. C. Grossman, S. Ren
Nanocarbon-Based Photovoltaics.
ACS Nano 2012 6, 8896.
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M. Bernardi, M. Palummo, J. C. Grossman
Optoelectronic Properties and Excitons in Hybridized Boron Nitride and Graphene Hexagonal Monolayers.
Physical Review Letters 2012 108, 226805. -
M. Bernardi, N. Ferralis, J. H. Wan, R. Villalon, J. C. Grossman
Solar Energy Generation in Three Dimensions.
Energy and Environmental Science 2012 5, 6880.
Read more about this work in the MIT News and Technology Review.
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S. Ren*, M. Bernardi*, R.R. Lunt, V. Bulovic, J. C. Grossman, S. Gradecak
Towards Efficient Carbon Nanotube/P3HT Solar Cells: Active Layer Morphology, Electrical and Optical Properties.
Nano Letters 2011 11, 5316. (*Equal Contributors). -
M. Bernardi, M. Giulianini, J. C. Grossman
Self-Assembly and Its Impact on Interfacial Charge Transfer in Carbon Nanotube/P3HT Solar Cells.
ACS Nano 2010 4, 6599. -
B. Myers, M. Bernardi, J. C. Grossman
Three-Dimensional Photovoltaics.
Applied Physics Letters 2010 96, 071902. -
L. Persichetti, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, M. Bernardi, A. Balzarotti
Step-step Interaction on Vicinal Si (001) Surfaces Studied by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.
Physical Review B 2009 80, 075315. -
M. Bernardi, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, A. Balzarotti, N. Motta
A Study of the Pair Distribution Function of Self-Organized Ge Quantum Dots.
Applied Physics Letters 2008 93, 031917.