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Photoexcitation of metallic nanostructures with short optical pulses can drive non-thermal electronic states, which, upon decay, lead to elevated electronic temperatures ($T_e \gtrapprox 1000\,\mathrm{K}$) eventually equilibrating with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Qian Ye , Stephen K. Sanders , Andrea Schirato , Alessandro Alabastri

The temperature evolution of GdFeCo electrons following optical heating plays a key role in all optical switching of GdFeCo and is primarily governed by the strength of coupling between electrons and phonons. Typically, the strength of…

A semiempirical theory for the excitation and subsequent relaxation of nonthermal electrons is described. The theory, which is applicable to ultrafast-laser excited metals, is based on the Boltzmann transport equation for the carrier…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-12 D. M. Riffe , Richard B. Wilson

We report the lattice dynamics of transition metal thin films by using the ultrafast electron diffraction. We observe a suppression of the diffraction intensity in a few picosecond after the photoexcitation, which is directly interpreted as…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-19 A. Nakamura , T. Shimojima , M. Nakano , Y. Iwasa , K. Ishizaka

We have studied the electron-phonon (e-p) interaction in thin Cu and Au films at sub-Kelvin temperatures with the help of the hot electron effect, using symmetric normal metal-insulator-superconductor tunnel junction pairs as thermometers.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. T. Karvonen , L. J. Taskinen , I. J. Maasilta

We investigate the quasiparticle relaxation and low-energy electronic structure in undoped SrFe_2As_2 exhibiting spin-density wave (SDW) ordering using optical pump-probe femtosecond spectroscopy. A remarkable critical slowing down of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-20 L. Stojchevska , P. Kusar , T. Mertelj , V. V. Kabanov , X. Lin , G. H. Cao , Z. A. Xu , D. Mihailovic

\'Eliashberg theory, being generalized to the case of the electron-phonon (EP) systems with the not constant density of electronic states, as well as to the frequency behavior of the renormalization of both the electron mass and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-11 Nikolay Kudryashov , Alexander Kutukov , Evgeny Mazur

The phonon and electronic properties, the Eliashberg function and the temperature dependence of resistance of electride Ca2N are investigated by the DFT-LDA plane-wave method. The phonon dispersion, the partial phonon density of states and…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-16 B. N. Mavrin , M. E. Perminova , Yu. E. Lozovik

The out-of-equilibrium dynamics of electrons and phonons upon laser excitation are often described by the two-temperature model, which assumes that both subsystems are separately in thermal equilibrium. However, recent experiments show that…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-04 Ulrike Ritzmann , Peter M. Oppeneer , Pablo Maldonado

Formation of swift heavy ion tracks requires extremely fast energy transfer between excited electrons and a lattice. However, electron-phonon energy exchange is too slow, as known from laser-irradiation experiments and calculations. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-14 Nikita Medvedev , Alexander E. Volkov

Fundamental upper bounds on the electron-phonon interaction strength and superconducting transition temperature $T_c$ in metals are established based on the intrinsic instability of the equilibrium between electrons and the crystal lattice…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-05 Dmitrii V. Semenok , Boris L. Altshuler , Emil A. Yuzbashyan

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

In this paper we report the results of electrical resistivity (1.5K < T <300K) and point contact spectroscopy (PCS) measurements on single crystals of metallic sodium tungsten bronze with varying sodium content. We have shown that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Gayathri , A. K. Raychaudhuri

The strong coupling Eliashberg theory plus vertex correction is used to calculate maps of transition temperature (Tc) in parameter-space characterizing superconductivity. Based on these Tc maps, crossover behaviors are found when…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-03-31 W. Fan

We present a comparison of electron-phonon interaction in NbB_2 and MgB_2, calculated using full-potential, density-functional-based methods in P6/mmm crystal structure. Our results, described in terms of (i) electronic structure, (ii)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Prabhakar P. Singh

We present a brief review of some recent work on the problem of highest achievable temperature of superconducting transition $T_c$ in electron-phonon systems. The discovery of record-breaking values of $T_c$ in quite a number of hydrides…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-11 M. V. Sadovskii

The electrons and phonons in metal films after ultra-short pulse laser heating are in highly non-equilibrium states not only between the electron sub-system and the phonon sub-system but also within the electron sub-system. An…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-05 Jun Zhou , Nianbei Li , Ronggui Yang

We present thermal measurements of large area (over $1,000$~$\mu$m$^2$) monolayer graphene samples at cryogenic temperatures to study the electron-phonon thermal conductivity of graphene. By using two large samples with areas which differ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Christopher B. McKitterick , Michael J. Rooks , Daniel E. Prober

A simple bulk model of electron-phonon coupling in metals has been surprisingly successful in explaining experiments on metal films that actually involve surface- or other low-dimensional phonons. However, by an exact application of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. -X. Qu , A. N. Cleland , M. R. Geller

We present simple qualitative estimates for the maximal superconducting transition temperature, which may be achieved due to electron - phonon coupling in Eliashberg-McMillan theory. It is shown that in the limit of very strong coupling the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-15 M. V. Sadovskii