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We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of the weak-coupling Hubbard-Holstein model after a sudden switch-on of the electron-phonon interaction within nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). Using the self-consistent Migdal…
The simultaneous influence of electronic correlations and magnetic ordering on the theoretical estimation of phonons and related properties of Ni is investigated. The work includes a comparative DFT and DFT+U study, where on-site Coulomb…
We have examined the role of the substrate on electron-phonon coupling in normal metal films of Mn-doped Al at temperatures below 1 K. Normal metal-insulator-superconductor junctions were used to measure the electron temperature in the…
Multi-temperature models are nowadays often used to quantify the ultrafast electron-phonon (boson) relaxations and coupling strengths in advanced quantum solids. To test their applicability we study the time evolution of the electron…
Recent experiments on metallic nanohybrids have revealed unusually strong electron-phonon effects emerging from nanoscale interfaces, despite the weak coupling character of the constituent bulk materials. Motivated by these observations, we…
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The electron-phonon coupling strength in single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) bundles has been studied directly in the time-domain by femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. We have measured the dependence of H(T_e,T_l), the…
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Nonlinear relaxation between spin waves (magnons) and the crystal lattice (phonons) in an insulating ferromagnet is investigated theoretically. Magnons and phonons are described by the equilibrium Bose-Einstein distributions with different…
We compute the phonon dispersion, density of states, and the Gr\"uneisen parameters of bulk palladium in the combined density functional theory (DFT) and dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). We find good agreement with experimental results…
The theory of Raman scattering by the electron--phonon coupled system in metals and heavily doped semiconductors is developed taking into account the Coulomb screening and the electron--phonon deformation interaction. The Boltzmann equation…
Ultrafast laser excitation of a metal causes correlated, highly nonequilibrium dynamics of electronic and ionic degrees of freedom, which are however only poorly captured by the widely-used two-temperature model. Here we develop an…
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…
The interaction between lattice and spins is at the heart of an extremely intriguing ultrafast dynamics in magnetic materials. In this work we formulate a general non-equilibrium theory that disentangles the complex interplay between them…
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Using electrical transport experiments and shot noise thermometry, we find strong evidence that "supercollision" scattering processes by flexural modes are the dominant electron-phonon energy transfer mechanism in high-quality, suspended…