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It is shown that a correlation between the positions of the $c$-axis longitudinal optic ($LO_c$) phonons and ``notch''-like structures in the $a$-$b$ plane conductivity of high-$T_c$ superconductors results from phonon-mediated interaction…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Vladimir N. Kostur

On flat bands of the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, exotic correlation physics unfolds. Phonons, through mediating an effective electron-electron interaction, can play a crucial role in selecting various electronic phases. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-03 Yi-Jie Wang , Geng-Dong Zhou , Biao Lian , Zhi-Da Song

Single-walled carbon nanotubes are strongly correlated systems with large Coulomb repulsion between two electrons occupying the same $p_z$ orbital. Within a molecular Hamiltonian appropriate for correlated $\pi$-electron systems, we show…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-15 Zhendong Wang , Demetra Psiachos , Roberto F. Badilla , Sumit Mazumdar

Acoustic phonons in piezoelectric materials strongly couple to electrons through a macroscopic electric field. We show that this coupling leads to a momentum-dependent divergence of the Fan-Migdal electron linewidth. We then develop a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-12 Jae-Mo Lihm , Samuel Poncé , Cheol-Hwan Park

Three-component fermion beyond the conventional Dirac Weyl Majorana classification attracts extensive attentions recently and many efforts have been paid to explore their superconductivity. Based on first-principles calculations, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-19 Jianyong Chen , Jiacheng Gao

Electron--phonon (e--ph) coupling governs electrical resistivity, hot-carrier cooling, and critically, thermal transport in solids. Recent first-principles advances now predict e--ph limited thermal conductivity from d-band metals and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-21 Sina Kazemian , Giovanni Fanchini

Based on results from femtosecond time-resolved photoemission, we compare three different methods for determination of the electron-phonon coupling constant {\lambda} in Eu and Ba-based 122 FeAs compounds. We find good agreement between all…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-13 L. Rettig , R. Cortés , H. S. Jeevan , P. Gegenwart , T. Wolf , J. Fink , U. Bovensiepen

Electron-phonon interaction (EPI) is presumably detrimental for thermoelectric performance in semiconductors because it limits carrier mobility. Here we show that enhanced EPI with strong energy dependence offers an intrinsic pathway to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-06 Yi Xia , Junsoo Park , Vidvuds Ozoliņš , Chris Wolverton

A description of electron-phonon coupling at a defect or impurity is essential to characterizing and harnessing its functionality for a particular application. Electron-phonon coupling limits the amount of useful light produced by a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-21 Mark E. Turiansky , John L. Lyons

Two-dimensional (2D) metals can host gapless plasmonic excitations, which strongly couple to electrons and thus may significantly affect superconductivity in layered materials. To investigate the dynamical interplay of the electron-electron…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-21 Yann in 't Veld , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Andrew J. Millis , Malte Rösner

We find that the optical properties of carbon nanotubes reflect remarkably strong effects of exciton-phonon coupling. Tight-binding calculations show that a significant fraction of the spectral weight of the absorption peak is transferred…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Vasili Perebeinos , J. Tersoff , Phaedon Avouris

A recent study [Rosati, Dolcini, and Rossi, Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 243101 (2015)] has predicted that, while in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) an electronic wave packet experiences the typical spatial diffusion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-25 R. Rosati , F. Dolcini , F. Rossi

Electron-phonon coupling is known to play an important role in the charge dynamics of semiconductor quantum dots. Here we explore its role in the combined charge-photon dynamics of cavity-coupled double quantum dots. Previous work on these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 M. J. Gullans , J. M. Taylor , J. R. Petta

ZrSiS, an intriguing candidate of topological nodal line semimetals, was discovered to have exotic surface floating two-dimensional (2D) electrons [Phys. Rev. X 7, 041073 (2017)], which are likely to interact with surface phonons. Here, we…

We explore the consequences of electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling in graphene antidot lattices (graphene nanomeshes), i.e., triangular superlattices of circular holes (antidots) in a graphene sheet. They display a direct band gap whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Vladimir M. Stojanovic , Nenad Vukmirovic , C. Bruder

We report on resonance Raman spectroscopy measurements with excitation photon energy down to 1.16 eV on graphene, to study how low-energy carriers interact with lattice vibrations. Thanks to the excitation energy close to the Dirac point at…

We investigate electron-phonon couplings, scattering rates, and mean free paths in zigzag-edge graphene strips with widths of the order of 10 nm. Our calculations for these graphene nanostrips show both the expected similarity with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Gunlycke , H. M. Lawler , C. T. White

We have investigated antidot lattices, which were prepared on exfoliated graphene single layers via electron-beam lithography and ion etching, by means of scanning Raman spectroscopy. The peak positions, peak widths and intensities of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-01 S. Heydrich , M. Hirmer , C. Preis , T. Korn , J. Eroms , D. Weiss , C. Schüller

We report the first Raman scattering measurements of BaC$_6$, SrC$_6$, and YbC$_6$, which along with new data on CaC$_6$, permits a systematic study of the phonons and the electron-phonon interaction within the doped graphene layers of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-08 Mark P. M. Dean , Christopher A. Howard , Siddharth S. Saxena , Mark Ellerby

We applied Time-Resolved Two-Photon Photoemission spectroscopy to probe the electron- phonon (e-ph) coupling strength in double-wall carbon nanotubes. The e-ph energy transfer rate G(Te,Tl) from the electronic system to the lattice depends…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-07 Ioannis Chatzakis