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Within recent developments of Density Functional Theory, its numerical implementation and of the Superconducting Density Functional Theory is nowadays possible to predict the superconducting critical temperature, T, with sufficient accuracy to anticipate the experimental verification. In this paper we present an analytical derivation of the isotope coefficient within the Superconducting Density Functional Theory. We calculate the partial derivative of T with respect to atomic masses. We verified the final expression by means of numerical calculations of isotope coefficient in monatomic superconductors (Pb) as well as polyatomic superconductors (CaC). The results confirm the validity of the analytical derivation with respect to the finite difference methods, with considerable improvement in terms of computational time and calculation accuracy. In addition, we provide the expression of interesting quantities like partial derivatives of the deformation potential, phonon frequencies and eigenvectors with respect to atomic masses, which can be useful for other derivations and applications.

Direct evaluation of the isotope effect within the framework of density functional theory for superconductors