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Coherent Phonon Coupling to Individual Bloch States in Photoexcited Bismuth

Materials Science 2012-09-10 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We investigate the temporal evolution of the electronic states at the bismuth (111) surface by means of time and angle resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. The binding energy of bulk-like bands oscillates with the frequency of the A1gA_{1g} phonon mode whereas surface states are insensitive to the coherent displacement of the lattice. A strong dependence of the oscillation amplitude on the electronic wavevector is correctly reproduced by \textit{ab initio} calculations of electron-phonon coupling. Besides these oscillations, all the electronic states also display a photoinduced shift towards higher binding energy whose dynamics follows the evolution of the electronic temperature.

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@article{arxiv.1112.3949,
  title  = {Coherent Phonon Coupling to Individual Bloch States in Photoexcited Bismuth},
  author = {E. Papalazarou and J. Faure and J. Mauchain and M. Marsi and A. Taleb-Ibrahimi and I. Reshetnyak and A. van Roekeghem and I. Timrov and N. Vast and B. Arnaud and L. Perfetti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.3949},
  year   = {2012}
}