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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

We investigate the coupling of an inhomogeneous electron system to phonons. The properties of an electronic system composed of a mixture of microscopic ordered and disordered islands are changed fundamentally by a phonon mode. In high-Tc…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-09-06 Natalia Pavlenko , Thilo Kopp

Quantum confinement endows two-dimensional (2D) layered materials with exceptional physics and novel properties compared to their bulk counterparts. Although certain two- and few-layer configurations of graphene have been realized and…

A Kubo formalism is used to calculate the electronic and optical conductivity of a graphene superlattice with Y-shaped kekul\'e bond texture, similar to that visualized in recent experiments. We show that new conduction channels between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Saúl A. Herrera , Gerardo G. Naumis

A number of interesting properties of graphene and graphite are postulated to derive from the peculiar bandstructure of graphene. This bandstructure consists of conical electron and hole pockets that meet at a single point in momentum (k)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron Bostwick , Taisuke Ohta , Thomas Seyller , K. Horn , Eli Rotenberg

It is a matter of current debate whether the gate-tunable superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene is phonon-mediated or arises from electron-electron interactions. The recent observation of the strong coupling of electrons to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-20 Glenn Wagner , Yves H. Kwan , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has attracted great interest in the last decade due to the novel properties it exhibited. It was revealed that e-phonon interaction plays an important role in a variety of phenomena in this system, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Jun-Wei Li , Jia-Xing Zhang , Wei Chen

I study the lattice dynamics and electron-phonon coupling in non-centrosymmetric quasi-one-dimensional K$_2$Cr$_3$As$_3$ using density functional theory based first principles calculations. The phonon dispersions show stable phonons without…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-13 Alaska Subedi

Through a combined theoretical and experimental effort, we uncover a yet unidentified mechanism that strengthens considerably electron-phonon coupling in materials where electron accumulation leads to population of multiple valleys. Taking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Evgeniy Ponomarev , Thibault Sohier , Marco Gibertini , Helmuth Berger , Nicola Marzari , Nicolas Ubrig , Alberto F. Morpurgo

The interaction of electron-hole pairs with lattice vibrations exhibits a wealth of intriguing physical phenomena. The Kohn anomaly is a renowned example where electron-phonon coupling leads to non-analytic phonon dispersion at specific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun Yan , Erik A. Henriksen , Philip Kim , Aron Pinczuk

A theory is presented for the strong enhancement of graphene-on-substrate bandgaps by attractive interactions mediated through phonons in a polarizable superstrate. It is demonstrated that gaps of up to 1eV can be formed for experimentally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-25 J. P. Hague

A model is proposed to study the electronic structure of slightly curved graphene sheets with an arbitrary number of pentagon-heptagon pairs and Stone-Wales defects based on a cosmological analogy. The disorder induced by curvature produces…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Alberto Cortijo , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

This work investigates the Floquet dynamics of electrons and excitons (particle-hole pairs) in a Dirac material referred to as Kekul\'e-distorted graphene. Specifically, we examine the role played by a high frequency driving electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Sita Kandel , Godfrey Gumbs

Previous studies of electron-phonon interaction in impure graphene have found that static disorder can give rise to an enhancement of electronic cooling. We investigate the effect of dynamic disorder and observe over an order of magnitude…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Qi Han , Yi Chen , Gerui Liu , Dapeng Yu , Xiaosong Wu

We report on a theoretical study of the influence of electron-electron interactions on ARPES spectra in graphene that is based on the random-phase-approximation and on graphene's massless Dirac equation continuum model. We find that level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-03 Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , Giovanni Borghi , Yafis Barlas , T. Pereg-Barnea , A. H. MacDonald

The dynamic polarization for kekul\'e-patterned graphene is studied within the Random Phase Approximation (RPA). It is shown how the breaking of the valley degeneracy by the lattice modulation is manifested through the dielectric spectrum,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-03 Saúl A. Herrera , Gerardo G. Naumis

The resistance at the charge neutral (Dirac) point was shown by Checkelsky et al in Phys. Rev. B 79, 115434 (2009) to diverge upon the application of a strong magnetic field normal to graphene. We argue that this divergence is the signature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Chang-Yu Hou , Claudio Chamon , Christopher Mudry

We develop a unified treatment of the piesoelectric coupling between two-dimensional electrons and bulk phonons in both cases of zero and strong magnetic fields, the latter corresponding to even denominator filling fractions. In contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. V. Khveshchenko , Michael Reizer

We demonstrate that the current flow in graphene can be guided on atomically thin current pathways by means of the engineering of Kekul\'e-O distortions. A grain boundary in these distortions separates the system into topological distinct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Santiago Galván y García , Yonatan Betancur-Ocampo , Francisco Sánchez-Ochoa , Thomas Stegmann

The calculation of electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling from first principles is a topic of great interest in materials science, offering a robust, non-empirical framework to understand and predict a wide range of physical phenomena. While…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-17 Savio Laricchia , Casey Eichstaedt , Dimitar Pashov , Mark van Schilfgaarde