Citing pySED

If you use pySED in your research or publications, please cite the pySED paper and the original SED method paper:

[1] Ting Liang, Wenwu Jiang, Ke Xu, Hekai Bu, Zheyong Fan, Wengen Ouyang, Jianbin Xu, PYSED: A tool for extracting kinetic-energy-weighted phonon dispersion and lifetime from molecular dynamics simulations, Journal of Applied Physics, 138, 075101 (2025).

[2] J. A. Thomas, J. E. Turney, R. M. Iutzi, C. H. Amon, A. J. H. McGaughey, Predicting phonon dispersion relations and lifetimes from the spectral energy density, Physical Review B, 81, 081411 (2010).

These references also provide the main theoretical background for the kinetic-energy-weighted Spectral Energy Density (SED) method used in pySED.