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In this letter we report measurements of the coupling between Dirac fermion quasiparticles (DFQs) and phonons on the (001) surface of the strong topological insulator Bi2Se3. While most contemporary investigations of this coupling have…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-07 Xuetao Zhu , Luiz Santos , Colin Howard , R. Sankar , Fangcheng Chou , Claudio Chamon , Michael El-Batanouny

The electron-phonon coupling in potassium-doped graphene on Ir(111) is studied via the renormalization of the pi* band near the Fermi level, using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. The renormalization is found to be fairly weak and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-26 M. Bianchi , E. D. L. Rienks , S. Lizzit , A. Baraldi , R. Balog , L. Hornekaer , Ph. Hofmann

We have investigated the effects of ozone treatment on graphene by Raman scattering. Sequential ozone short-exposure cycles resulted in increasing the $p$ doping levels as inferred from the blue shift of the 2$D$ and $G$ peak frequencies,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 F. Alzina , H. Tao , J. Moser , Y. Garcia , A. Bachtold , C. M. Sotomayor-Torres

We compute electron-phonon coupling (EPC) of selected phonon modes in graphene and graphite using various ab-initio methods. The inclusion of non-local exchange-correlation effects within the GW approach strongly renormalizes the square EPC…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-08-28 Michele Lazzeri , Claudio Attaccalite , Ludger Wirtz , Francesco Mauri

The role of electron-phonon interactions is experimentally and theoretically investigated near the saddle point absorption peak of graphene. The differential optical transmission spectra of multiple, non-interacting layers of graphene…

The finite momentum transfer ($\boldsymbol{q}$) longitudinal optical response $\sigma^L(\boldsymbol{q},\omega)$ of graphene has a peak at an energy $\omega=\hbar v_F q$. This corresponds directly to a quasiparticle peak in the spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-11 J. P. Carbotte , J. P. F. LeBlanc , Phillip E. C. Ashby

We develop a theory for the electron-phonon interaction effects on the electronic properties of graphene. We analytically calculate the electron self-energy, spectral function and band velocity renormalization due to phonon-mediated…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Wang-Kong Tse , S. Das Sarma

Epitaxial graphene on SiC possesses, quite remarkably, an electron spectrum similar to that of freestanding samples. Yet, the coupling to the substrate, albeit small, affects the quasiparticle properties. Combining \emph{ab initio}…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Oleg Pankratov , Stephan Hensel , Michel Bockstedte

We present energy filtered electron emission spectromicroscopy with spatial and wave-vector resolution on few layer epitaxial graphene on SiC$(000-1) grown by furnace annealing. Low energy electron microscopy shows that more than 80% of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Mathieu , N. Barrett , J. Rault , Y. Y. Mi , B. Zhang , W. A. de Heer , C. Berger , E. H. Conrad , O. Renault

The interplay of electron-phonon (el-ph) and electron-electron (el-el) interactions in epitaxial graphene is studied by directly probing its electronic structure. We found a strong coupling of electrons to the soft part of the A1g phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-11-21 S. Y. Zhou , D. A. Siegel , A. V. Fedorov , A. Lanzara

We demonstrate that graphite phonon dispersions have two Kohn anomalies at the Gamma-E_2g and K-A'1 modes. The anomalies are revealed by two sharp kinks. By an exact analytic derivation, we show that the slope of these kinks is proportional…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-03 S. Piscanec , M. Lazzeri , F. Mauri , A. C. Ferrari , J. Robertson

Electron-phonon coupling, i.e., the scattering of lattice vibrations by electrons and vice versa, is ubiquitous in solids and can lead to emergent ground states such as superconductivity and charge-density wave order. Strong coupling of…

Breaking the intrinsic chirality of quasiparticles in graphene enables the emergence of new and intriguing phases. One such paradigmatic example is the bond density wave, which leads to a Kekul\'{e}-ordered structure and underpins exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Dominik Szczȩśniak

We use first-principles density-functional calculations to determine the frequency shift of the A$'_1$-${\bf K}$ phonon (Raman D band) in monolayer graphene, as a function of the charge doping. A detailed DFT study on the electron-phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Srijan Kumar Saha , U. V. Waghmare , H. R. Krishnamurthy , A. K. Sood

Recent advances in strain engineering at the nanoscale have shown the feasibility to modulate the properties of graphene. Although the electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling and Kohn anomalies in graphene define the phonon branches contributing to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 M. E. Cifuentes-Quintal , O. de la Peña-Seaman , R. Heid , R. de Coss , K. -P. Bohnen

I study the lattice dynamics and electron-phonon coupling in non-centrosymmetric quasi-one-dimensional K$_2$Cr$_3$As$_3$ using density functional theory based first principles calculations. The phonon dispersions show stable phonons without…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-13 Alaska Subedi

Photoemission and phonon spectroscopies have yielded widely varying estimates of the electron-phonon coupling constant \lambda\ on the surfaces of topological insulators, even for a particular material and technique. We connect the results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-27 Colin Howard , M. El-Batanouny

Superconductivity in graphite intercalated compounds has been studied for more than 40 years and it is still not fully understood, despite the recent progress and the discovery of relatively high Tc superconductivity in CaC6 and YbC6.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-04-14 T. Valla , J. Camacho , Z-H. Pan , A. V. Fedorov , A. C. Walters , C. A. Howard , M. Ellerby

We present a new way to tune the electron-phonon coupling (EPC) in graphene by changing the deformation potential with electron/hole doping. We show the EPC for highest optical branch at the high symmetry point K, acquires a strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-03 Claudio Attaccalite , Ludger Wirtz , Michele Lazzeri , Francesco Mauri , Angel Rubio

The phonon dispersion of graphene on Ir(111) has been determined by means of angle-resolved inelastic electron scattering and density functional calculations. Kohn anomalies of the highest optical-phonon branches are observed at the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Endlich , A. Molina-Sánchez , L. Wirtz , J. Kröger