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In the presence of Joule heating, the electronic temperature in a metallic resistor placed at sub-Kelvin temperatures can significantly exceed the phonon temperature. Electron cooling proceeds mainly through two processes: electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-26 B. Huard , H. Pothier , D. Esteve , K. E. Nagaev

In electronic cooling with superconducting tunnel junctions, the cooling power is counterbalanced by the interaction with phonons and by the heat flow from the overheated leads. We study aluminium-based coolers that are equipped with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 H. Q. Nguyen , M. Meschke , H. Courtois , J. P. Pekola

A general expression for calculating the thermal power transferring from 3-dimensional electron to any D-dimensional phonon subsystem is derived in this paper. Electron-phonon coupling in a free suspended cylindrical nanoshell is studied,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Ya-Ni Zhao , Lin Zhang , Shi-Xian Qu , Michael R. Geller

We discuss the rich vibrational dynamics of nanometer-scale semiconducting and insulating crystals as probed by localized electronic impurity states, with an emphasis on nanoparticles that are only weakly coupled to their environment. Two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael R. Geller , W. M. Dennis , Vadim A. Markel , Kelly R. Patton , Daniel T. Simon , Ho-Soon Yang

The phonon-mode decomposition of the electron-phonon coupling in the MgB2-like system Li_{1-x}BC is explored using first principles calculations. It is found that the high temperature superconductivity of such systems results from extremely…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. An , S. Y. Savrasov , H. Rosner , W. E. Pickett

In order to observe many-body localisation in electronic systems, decoupling from the lattice phonons is required, which is possible only in out-of-equilibrium systems. We show that such an electron-phonon decoupling may happen in suspended…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 George McArdle , Igor V. Lerner

The transition probability for a one dimensional tunneling electron coupled to acoustical phonons is calculated, with the Feynman path-integral method for zero temperature. We considered a realistic electron phonon interaction (deformation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Pazy , B. Laikhtman

We investigate electron-phonon coupling in the molecular crystals CH$_4$, NH$_3$, H$_2$O, and HF, using first-principles quantum mechanical calculations. We find vibrational corrections to the electronic band gaps at zero temperature of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 Bartomeu Monserrat , Edgar A. Engel , Richard J. Needs

The electronic structure, lattice dynamics, and electron-phonon coupling of the boron-doped diamond are investigated using the density functional supercell method. Our results indicate the boron-doped diamond is a phonon mediated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 H. J. Xiang , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang , J. G. Hou , Qingshi Zhu

The discrete nature of the vibrational modes of an isolated nanometer-scale solid dramatically modifies its low-energy electron and phonon dynamics from that of a bulk crystal. However, nanocrystals are usually coupled--even if only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kelly R. Patton , Michael R. Geller

We discuss the possible cooling of different phonon modes via three wave mixing interactions of vibrational and optical modes. Since phonon modes exhibit a variety of dispersion relations or frequency spectra with diverse spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 G. S. Agarwal , Sudhanshu S. Jha

We have measured directly the thermal conductance between electrons and phonons in ultra-thin Hf and Ti films at millikelvin temperatures. The experimental data indicate that electron-phonon coupling in these films is significantly…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 M. E. Gershenson , D. Gong , T. Sato , B. S. Karasik , A. V. Sergeev

We study a setup where a single negatively-charged silicon-vacancy center in diamond is magnetically coupled to a low-frequency mechanical bending mode and via strain to the high-frequency phonon continuum of a semi-clamped diamond beam. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-12 K. V. Kepesidis , M. -A. Lemonde , A. Norambuena , J. R. Maze , P. Rabl

We consider the deformation potential mechanism of the electron-phonon coupling in metal films and investigate the intensity of the associated heat transfer between the electron and phonon subsystems. The focus is on the temperature region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-31 S. Cojocaru , D. V. Anghel

Electron-phonon (E-p) coupling incorporated density functional theory (DFT) based investigation of structural, electronic and vibrational properties of bulk MgSe and MgTe is presented. Electron-phonon coupling is incorporated to understand…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-19 Maitry Joshi , Trupti K Gajaria , Prafulla K. Jha

The design of graphene-based composite with high thermal conductivity requires a comprehensive understanding of phonon coupling in graphene. We extended the two-temperature model to coupled groups of phonon. The study give new physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Meng An , Qichen Song , Xiaoxiang Yu , Han Meng , Dengke Ma , Ruiyang Li , Zelin Jin , Baoling Huang , Nuo Yang

We demonstrate significant cooling of electrons in a nanostructure below 10 mK by demagnetisation of thin-film copper on a silicon chip. Our approach overcomes the typical bottleneck of weak electron-phonon scattering by coupling the…

The effect of electron-phonon interactions in the conductance through metallic atomic wires is theoretically analyzed. The proposed model allows to consider an atomic size region electrically and mechanically coupled to bulk electrodes. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. de la Vega , A. Martin-Rodero , N. Agrait , A. Levy Yeyati

The t-t'-t''-J model of electrons interacting with three phonon modes (breathing, apical breathing, and buckling) is considered. The wave-vector dependence of the matrix elements of the electron-phonon interaction leads to opposite…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Shneyder , S. G. Ovchinnikov

We have studied the lattice dynamics, electron-phonon coupling, and superconducting properties of $\alpha$-MoB$_2$, as a function of applied pressure, within the framework of density functional perturbation theory using a mixed-basis…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-31 Marco-Antonio Carmona-Galván , Rolf Heid , Omar De la Peña-Seaman