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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 study inelastic energy relaxation in graphene for low energies to find out how electrons scatter with acoustic phonons and other electrons. By coupling the graphene to superconductors, we create a strong dependence of the measured…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Juha Voutilainen , Aurelien Fay , Pasi Häkkinen , Janne K. Viljas , Tero T. Heikkilä , Pertti J. Hakonen

We have implemented a generic method, based on the 2n+1 theorem within density functional perturbation theory, to calculate the anharmonic scattering coefficients among three phonons with arbitrary wavevectors. The method is used to study…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-24 Lorenzo Paulatto , Francesco Mauri , Michele Lazzeri

NaOH-reacted graphite oxide film was prepared by decomposing epoxy groups in graphite oxide into hydroxyl and -ONa groups with NaOH solution. Ultrafast carrier dynamics of the sample were studied by time-resolved transient differential…

The in-plane acoustic phonon scattering in graphene is solved by considering fully inelastic acoustic phonon scatterings in two-dimensional (2D) Dirac materials for large range of temperature ($T$) and chemical potential ($\mu$). Rigorous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Khoe Van Nguyen , Yia-Chung Chang

Energy transfer to acoustic phonons is the dominant low-temperature cooling channel of electrons in a crystal.For cold neutral graphene we find that the weak cooling power of its acoustical modes relative to the heat capacity of the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 R. Bistritzer , A. H. MacDonald

We investigate decoherence of an electron in graphene caused by electron-flexural phonon interaction. We find out that flexural phonons can produce dephasing rate comparable to the electron-electron one. The problem appears to be quite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Konstantin S. Tikhonov , Wei L. Z. Zhao , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

Electron-electron (e-e) interaction is known as a source of logarithmic renormalizations for Dirac fermions in quantum field theory. The renormalization of electron--optical phonon coupling (EPC) by e-e interaction, which plays a pivotal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Sho Ikeda , Chiko Otani , Masatsugu Yamashita

We propose a fully $ \textit{ab initio} $ approach to predicting thermal attenuation in elastic helium atom scattering amplitudes, validated through strong agreement with experiments on Nb(100) and (3$\times$1)-O/Nb(100) surfaces. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-17 Cristóbal Méndez , C. J. Thompson , M. F. Van Duinen , S. J. Sibener , Tomás A. Arias

Interband optical transitions in graphene are subject to pseudospin selection rules. Impulsive excitation with linearly polarized light generates an anisotropic photocarrier occupation in momentum space that evolves at timescales shorter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 M. Trushin , A. Grupp , G. Soavi , A. Budweg , D. De Fazio , U. Sassi , A. Lombardo , A. C. Ferrari , W. Belzig , A. Leitenstorfer , D. Brida

In both particle and wave descriptions of phonons, the dense, aperiodically arranged interfaces in aperiodic superlattices are expected to strongly attenuate thermal transport due to phonon-interface scattering or broken long-range…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-04 Theodore Maranets , Yan Wang

A major achievement of the past decade has been the realization of macroscopic quantum systems by exploiting interactions between optical cavities and mechanical resonators. In these systems, phonons are coherently annihilated or created in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 R. De Alba , F. Massel , I. R. Storch , T. S. Abhilash , A. Hui , P. L. McEuen , H. G. Craighead , J. M. Parpia

The active photonics based on the two-dimensional material graphene has attracted enormous interests for developing the tunable and compact optical devices with high efficiency. Here we integrate graphene into the Fano-resonant…

We investigate in the framework of linear response theory the complete phonon dispersion, phonon induced electronic charge response, electron-phonon interaction and dielectric and infrared properties of the high-temperature superconductors…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Claus Falter

The lattice thermal conductivity of graphene is evaluated using a microscopic model that takes into account the lattice's discrete nature and the phonon dispersion relation within the Brillouin zone. The Boltzmann transport equation is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-18 J. Chen , Y. Liu

Recently, an anisotropic Debye model [Dames et al., Physical Review B 87, 12 (2013)] was proposed for calculations of the interfacial thermal conductance and the minimum thermal conductivity of graphite-like layered materials. Despite…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Hongkun Li , Weidong Zheng , Yee Kan Koh

In order to exploit the intriguing optical properties of graphene it is essential to gain a better understanding of the light-matter interaction in the material on ultrashort timescales. Exciting the Dirac fermions with intense ultrafast…

In this study, we employ the atomistic wave-packet method to directly simulate coherent phonon transport and scattering dynamics in an aperiodic superlattice structure with aperiodically arranged interfaces. Our investigation reveals that…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-04 Theodore Maranets , Milad Nasiri , Yan Wang

Strong electron-electron interactions in graphene are expected to result in multiple-excitation generation by the absorption of a single photon. We show that the impact of carrier multiplication on photocurrent response is enhanced by very…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-29 Justin C. W. Song , Mark S. Rudner , Charles M. Marcus , Leonid S. Levitov

The conversion of light into free electron-hole pairs constitutes the key process in the fields of photodetection and photovoltaics. The efficiency of this process depends on the competition of different relaxation pathways and can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-24 K. J. Tielrooij , J. C. W. Song , S. A. Jensen , A. Centeno , A. Pesquera , A. Zurutuza Elorza , M. Bonn , L. S. Levitov , F. H. L. Koppens