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The effect of electron-optical phonon interaction on the hydrogenic impurity binding energy in a cylindrical quantum wire is studied. By using Landau and Pekar variational method, the hamiltonian is separated into two parts which contain…

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The effect of electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling on thermal transport across metal-nonmetal interfaces is yet to be completely understood. In this paper, we use a series of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with e-ph coupling effect included…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-02 Xufei Wu , Tengfei Luo

We study the temperature relaxation dynamics of nodal-line semimetals after a sudden excitation in the presence of acoustic and optical phonon modes. We find that the nodal line constrains the electron momenta in scattering processes and,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-11 Benjamin M. Fregoso , Madhab Neupane , Anup Pradhan Sakhya

The polaron binding energy E_{p} in undoped parent cuprates has been determined to be about 1.0 eV from the unconventional oxygen-isotope effect on the antiferromagnetic ordering temperature. The deduced value of E_{p} is in quantitative…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Guo-meng Zhao

We analyze the effects of an electron-phonon interaction on the one-electron spectral weight A(k,omega) of a d_{x^2-y^2} superconductor. We study the case of an Einstein phonon mode with various momentum-dependent electron-phonon couplings…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. W. Sandvik , D. J. Scalapino , N. E. Bickers

We report a comprehensive Raman study of the phonon behaviour in PdSe$_2$ in the temperature range of 5 K to 300 K. A remarkable change in the Raman spectrum is observed at 120 K: a significant enhancement of the out-of-plane phonon…

The transfer of heat between electrons and phonons plays a key role for thermal management in future nanowire-based devices, but only a few experimental measurements of electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling in nanowires are available. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 Jason Matthews , Eric A. Hoffmann , Carsten Weber , Andreas Wacker , Heiner Linke

We demonstrate local detection of the electron temperature in a two-dimensionalmicrodomain using a quantum dot. Our method relies on the observation that a temperature bias across the dot changes the functional form of Coulomb-blockade…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-04 Simone Gasparinetti , Fabio Deon , Giorgio Biasiol , Lucia Sorba , Fabio Beltram , Francesco Giazotto

Using the weak-localization method, we have measured the electron-phonon scattering times $\tau_{ep}$ in Pd$_{60}$Ag$_{40}$ thick films prepared by DC- and RF-sputtering deposition techniques. In both series of samples, we find an anomalous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-05-05 Y. L. Zhong , J. J. Lin , L. Y. Kao

We study theoretically the effect of the effective dimensionality of the phonon gas distribution on the heat exchange between electrons and phonons in layered nanostructures. If we denote the electrons temperature by $T_e$ and the phonons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Dragos-Victor Anghel , Claudiu Caraiani , Yuri M. Galperin

Using finite temperature Raman spectroscopy, we investigate the electron-phonon interactions (EPI) and phonon-phonon scattering dynamics in the Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 in different fre quency regimes. Strong softening of the Raman shifts…

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To understand the essential properties of Dirac crystals, such as their thermal conductivity, we require models that consider the interaction between Dirac electrons and dispersive acoustic phonons. The exceptionally high thermal…

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We analyze current-voltage characteristics taken on Au-doped indium-oxide films. By fitting a scaling function to the data, we extract the electron-phonon scattering rate as function of temperature, which yields a quadratic dependence of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Roy Ceder , Oded Agam , Zvi Ovadyahu

We report a Raman study of the effect of temperature on the self-energies of optical phonons in a number of transition metals with hexagonal-close-packed structure. Anisotropic softening of phonon energies and narrowing of phonon linewidths…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-04 Yu. S. Ponosov , S. V. Streltsov

The electron-phonon interaction in monolayer graphene is investigated by using density functional perturbation theory. The results indicate that the electron-phonon interaction strength is of comparable magnitude for all four in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 K. M. Borysenko , J. T. Mullen , E. A. Barry , S. Paul , Y. G. Semenov , J. M. Zavada , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , K. W. Kim

We propose phonon spectroscopy by electric measurements of the low-temperature conductance of coupled-quantum dots, specifically employing dephasing of the quantum electronic transport by the phonons. The setup we consider consists of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. Ueda , O. Entin-Wohlman , M. Eto , A. Aharony

We present a first-principles study of the temperature- and density-dependent intrinsic electrical resistivity of graphene. We use density-functional theory and density-functional perturbation theory together with very accurate Wannier…

We have used symmetric normal metal-insulator-superconductor (NIS) tunnel junction pairs, known as SINIS structures, for ultrasensitive thermometry in the temperature range 50 - 700 mK. By Joule heating the electron gas and measuring the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. T. Karvonen , L. J. Taskinen , I. J. Maasilta

We investigate the influence of the electron-phonon interaction on the decay dynamics of a quantum dot coupled to an optical microcavity. We show that the electron-phonon interaction has important consequences on the dynamics, especially…

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