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We report on an unconventional mechanism of electron scattering in graphene in hybrid Bose- Fermi systems. We study energy-dependent electron relaxation time, accounting for the processes of emission and absorption of a Bogoliubov…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Meng Sun , K. H. A. Villegas , V. M. Kovalev , I. G. Savenko

Properties of phonons - quanta of the crystal lattice vibrations - in graphene have attracted strong attention of the physics and engineering communities. Acoustic phonons are the main heat carriers in graphene near room temperature while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Denis L. Nika , Alexander A. Balandin

Carrier thermalization in a superlattice solar cell made of polar semiconductors is studied theoretically by considering a minimal model where electron-phonon scattering is the principal channel of carrier energy loss. Importantly, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Imam Makhfudz , Nicolas Cavassilas , Yaser Hajati , Hamidreza Esmaielpour , Fabienne Michelini

We investigate the resonant cooling phenomena of a driven two-level radiator embedded in a photonic crystal structure. We find that cooling occurs even at laser-atom-frequency resonance. This happens due to the atomic dressed-states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Marcela Cerbu , Mihai A. Macovei , Gao-xiang Li

In standard treatments of electron transport, momentum relaxation in a perfect, defect-free crystal is linked with phonon creation or annihilation. In this work, we reconsider this problem for a finite, isolated crystal, retaining the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-24 Eric J. Heller , Anton M. Graf , Yubo Zhang , Alhun Aydin. , Joonas Keski-Rahkonen

Electron-phonon interaction and related self-energy are fundamental to both the equilibrium properties and non-equilibrium relaxation dynamics of solids. Although electron-phonon interaction has been suggested by various time-resolved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Hongyun Zhang , Changhua Bao , Michael Schüler , Shaohua Zhou , Qian Li , Laipeng Luo , Wei Yao , Zhong Wang , Thomas P. Devereaux , Shuyun Zhou

We report on electron cooling power measurements in few-layer graphene excited by Joule heating by means of a new setup combining electrical and optical probes of the electron and phonon baths temperatures. At low bias, noise thermometry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 D. Brunel , S. Berthou , R. Parret , F. Vialla , P. Morfin , Q. Wilmart , G. Fève , J. -M. Berroir , P. Roussignol , C. Voisin , B. Plaçais

Phonon coherence elucidates the propagation and interaction of phonon quantum states within superlattice, unveiling the wave-like nature and collective behaviors of phonons. Taking MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$ lateral heterostructures as a model…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-11 Xin Wu , Zhang Wu , Ting Liang , Zheyong Fan , Jianbin Xu , Masahiro Nomura , Penghua Ying

In semiconductors almost all heat is conducted by phonons (lattice vibrations), which is limited by their quasi-particle lifetimes. Phonon-phonon interactions represent scattering mechanisms that produce thermal resistance. In…

Electrical currents in low-dimensional quantum materials can drive electrons far from equilibrium, creating stark imbalance between electron and lattice temperatures. Yet, no existing methods enable simultaneous nanoscale mapping of both…

We study the effect of electron-acoustic phonon interactions in twisted bilayer graphene on resistivity in the high-temperature transport and superconductivity in the low-temperature phase diagram. We theoretically show that twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Fengcheng Wu , Euyheon Hwang , Sankar Das Sarma

Classical thermal transport theories that preserve rotational symmetry, predict strong anharmonic scattering of out-of-plane lattice vibrational modes called flexural phonons in flat suspended graphene sheets. Such strong scattering…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-07 Navaneetha K. Ravichandran

Radio-frequency compressed ultrafast electron diffraction has been used to probe the coherent and incoherent coupling of impulsive electronic excitation at 1.55 eV (800 nm) to optical and acoustic phonon modes directly from the perspective…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Robert P. Chatelain , Vance R. Morrison , Bart L. M. Klarenaar , Bradley J. Siwick

We show that the interaction between flexural phonons, when corrected by the exchange of electron-hole excitations, may place the graphene sheet very close to a quantum critical point characterized by the strong suppression of the bending…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-11 P. San-Jose , J. Gonzalez , F. Guinea

Sympathetic laser cooling of a single mode graphene membrane coupled to an atomic cloud interacting via Casimir-Polder forces has been recently proposed. Here, we extend this study to the effect of secondary graphene membrane whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Sofia Ribeiro , Hugo Terças

Electrical properties of multi-layer graphene are subject to variations due to random interlayer alignments. In this work we reported graphene interlayer conductance without special layer aligning. Ohmic contacts between two graphene layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-07 Yin Sun , Xintong Zhang , Longyan Wang , Lining Zhang , Salahuddin Raju , Mansun Chan

We propose a new method to obtain a squeezed matter field of atomic vibrations by use of an optical lattice, and the laser pulse technique of Garrett et al used for acoustic phonons [1]. We show that it is possible to reduce the variance of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. L. Burin , J. L. Birman , A. Bulatov , H. Rabitz

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

The scattering of lattice excitations (phonons) with the photoexcited charge carriers is of a major concern in optoelectronic devices. Here, the resonant Raman scattering will be utilized to study an exciton-phonon interaction in GaN…

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