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The possibility to reconstruct the electron-phonon interaction (EPI) function was demonstrated for S-c-N and S-c-S point contacts using the superconducting inelastic contribution to the excess current caused by Andreev reflection processes.…
The recovering procedure of the electron-phonon interaction (EPI) functions from the additional nonlinearities of the current-voltage curve ($I-V$ curve) of point contacts associated with an excess current is considered. The approach…
Using Ta, 2H-NbSe2 and MgB2 as an example it is shown that it is possible to reconstruct qualitatively a function of the electron-phonon interaction from point-contact spectra in a superconducting state. The limits and the restrictions of…
Nonlinear electrical effects in superconducting S-c-S contacts, including the spectroscopy of electron-phonon interactions (EPI) in these systems, and the recovery of the EPI function from experimental data are discussed. The effect of a…
The method of microcontact spectroscopy in the superconducting state was used to investigate weak nonlinearities of the current-voltage characteristics of point contacts made of $N{{b}_{3}}Sn$ single crystals. The nature of the spectrum of…
In the past five years enormous progress has been made in the ab initio calculations of the optical response of electrons in semiconductors. The calculations include the Coulomb interaction between the excited electron and the hole left…
A qualitative study of the electron-phonon interaction (EPI) spectra in $2H-NbS{{e}_{2}}$ is carried out by the method of point-contact spectroscopy in the superconducting state. Anisotropy of the EPI spectra for contacts oriented in the…
The experimentally observed nonlinearities of the current-voltage characteristics (CVCs) of tantalum-based point homo- and hetero- contacts in both normal and superconducting states related to electron-phonon interaction (EPI) were…
Lortz et al. [Phys. Rev. B 73, 024512 (2006)] have utilized specific heat and resistivity measurements as "thermal spectroscopies" to deconvolve the spectrum of the electron-phonon interaction in YB$_6$ assuming a major role of the low…
The point-contact spectroscopy, in contrast to the tunneling spectrocopy, considers small electrical contacts with direct conductivity. In the normal state, it enables one to measure the spectral function of electron-boson interaction. In…
The point-contact spectra of tantalum in the superconducting state, with $Ta$, $Cu$, and $Au$ counterelectrodes, have been studied. We discovered some new distinctive features, whose position on the $eV$ axis is determined by the critical…
This article derives an electron-phonon interaction suitable for interpreting ultrasonic attenuation measurements in the ruthenate and cuprate superconductors. The huge anisotropy found experimentally (Lupien et al., 2001) in Sr2RuO4 in the…
Understanding nonequilibrium electron-phonon interactions at the microscopic level and on ultrafast timescales is a central goal of modern condensed matter physics. Combining time- and angle-resolved extreme ultraviolet photoemission…
We investigate the interplay of the electron-phonon and the spin fluctuation interaction for the superconducting state of YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7}$. The spin fluctuations are described within the nearly antiferromagnetic Fermi liquid theory,…
To investigate the possibility whether electron-phonon coupling can enhance orbital fluctuations in iron-based superconductors, we develop an ab initio method to construct the effective low-energy models including the phonon-related terms.…
Superconducting systems based on attractive electron-phonon interactions are the ones which are best understood at a fundamental level. They are well described using Eliashberg theory, which, unlike BCS theory, explicitly takes into account…
The volt-ampere curves and their second derivatives were studied for niobium point contacts at low temperatures in the voltage range corresponding to the characteristic phonon energies. It was found that while for the dirty contacts in the…
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…
Electron-phonon interaction in superconducting transition metals (Ta, Mo, W) is investigated by the method of point-contact spectroscopy. The spectra obtained are compared with model densities of the phonon states $F(\omega)$ computed from…
We present a first principles investigation of the lattice dynamics and electron-phonon coupling of the high-T_c superconductor YBa_2Cu_3O_7 within the framework of density functional perturbation theory using a mixed-basis pseudopotential…