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Tailoring the properties of correlated oxides is accomplished by chemical doping, pressure, temperature or magnetic field. Photoexcitation is a valid alternative to reach out-of-equilibrium states otherwise inaccessible. Here, we…

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

The acoustic, optic, and surface polar optic phonons are the three important intrinsic and extrinsic phononic modes that increasingly populate graphene on a substrate with rising temperatures; the coupling of which with photoexcited hot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 S. Arshia Khatoon , Meenhaz Ansari , S. S. Z. Ashraf , M. Obaidurrahman

The strength of the electron-phonon coupling parameter and its evolution throughout a solid's phase diagram often determines phenomena such as superconductivity, charge- and spin-density waves. Its experimental determination relies on the…

The efficiency of optical emitters can be dramatically enhanced by reducing the effective mode volume (the Purcell effect). Here we predict an analogous enhancement for electron-phonon (el-ph) scattering, achieved by compressing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Ali Fahimniya , Francisco Guinea , Leonid Levitov

In this paper we investigate the electron-phonon coupling in bilayer graphene, as a paradigmatic case for multilayer graphenes where interlayer hoppings are relevant. Using a frozen-phonon approach within the context of Density Functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-09-04 E. Cappelluti , G. Profeta

We present a comprehensive ab initio study of structural, electronic, lattice dynamical and electron-phonon coupling properties of the Bi(111) surface within density functional perturbation theory. Relativistic corrections due to spin-orbit…

We introduce a different perspective describing electron-phonon interactions in graphene based on curved space hydrodynamics. Interactions of phonons with charge carriers increase the electrical resistivity of the material. Our approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-15 Ilario Giordanelli , Miller Mendoza , Hans Herrmann

Insight into why superconductivity in pristine and doped monolayer graphene seems strongly suppressed has been central for the recent years' various creative approaches to realize superconductivity in graphene and graphene-like systems. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-12 Even Thingstad , Akashdeep Kamra , Justin W. Wells , Asle Sudbø

Laser control of solids was so far mainly discussed in the context of strong classical nonlinear light-matter coupling in a pump-probe framework. Here we propose a quantum-electrodynamical setting to address the coupling of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-02 Michael A. Sentef , Michael Ruggenthaler , Angel Rubio

Understanding and controlling hot-carrier relaxation in graphene is crucial for advancing ultrafast optoelectronic and terahertz technologies. Here, we investigate carrier cooling dynamics in monolayer and bilayer graphene using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Sachin Sharm , Elliott Walker , Rachael Myers-Ward , Jenifer Hajzus , Yijing Liu , Paola Barbara , Ioannis Chatzakis

Band structure determines the motion of electrons in a solid, giving rise to exotic phenomena when properly engineered. Drawing an analogy between electrons and photons, artificially designed optical lattices indicate the possibility of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Siqi Wang , Xianqing Lin , Mervin Zhao , Changjian Zhang , Sui Yang , Yuan Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , David Tomanek , Xiang Zhang

Using electrical transport experiments and shot noise thermometry, we investigate electron-phonon heat transfer rate in a suspended bilayer graphene. Contrary to monolayer graphene with heat flow via three-body supercollision scattering, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Antti Laitinen , Manohar Kumar , Mika Oksanen , Bernard Plaçais , Pauli Virtanen , Pertti Hakonen

Electron-phonon coupling in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene is an important but difficult topic. We propose a scheme to simplify and understand this problem. Weighted by the coupling strength with the low-energy heavy electrons ($f$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Hao Shi , Wangqian Miao , Xi Dai

Ultrafast electron-phonon relaxation dynamics in graphene hides many distinct phenomena, such as hot phonon generation, dynamical Kohn anomalies, and phonon decoupling, yet still remains largely unexplored. Here, we unravel intricate…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-19 Nina Girotto , Dino Novko

Electron-phonon coupling (EPC) governs lattice dynamics, charge transport, and collective electronic phases in quantum materials. In several families of unconventional superconductors, including transition-metal dichalcogenides and kagome…

Amplification of light through stimulated emission or nonlinear optical interactions has had a transformative impact on modern science and technology. The amplification of other bosonic excitations, like phonons in solids, is likely to open…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-01 Andrea Cartella , Tobia Federico Nova , Michael Fechner , Roberto Merlin , Andrea Cavalleri

We analyze Cooper pairing instabilities in strongly driven electron-phonon systems. The light-induced non-equilibrium state of phonons results in a simultaneous increase of the superconducting coupling constant and the electron scattering.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-16 Michael Knap , Mehrtash Babadi , Gil Refael , Ivar Martin , Eugene Demler

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-02 Antti Laitinen , Mika Oksanen , Aurélien Fay , Daniel Cox , Matti Tomi , Pauli Virtanen , Pertti Hakonen

We present high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study in conjunction with first principles calculations to investigate how the interaction of electrons with phonons in graphene is modified by the presence of Yb. We find…