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We report the results of the study of the acoustic and optical phonons in Si-doped AlN thin films grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition on sapphire substrates. The Brillouin - Mandelstam and Raman light scattering spectroscopies…

Here, we investigate phonon mode- and electron band-selective electron-phonon couplings in centrosymmetric 1T$'$-MoTe$_2$ using time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy combined with frequency-domain analysis. Femtosecond…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-24 Carl E. Jensen , Christoph Emeis , Stephan Jauernik , Petra Hein , Fabio Caruso , Michael Bauer

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.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-01-20 Yusuke Nomura , Kazuma Nakamura , Ryotaro Arita

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

We present a theory of phonon-mediated superconductivity in near magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. Using a microscopic model for phonon coupling to moir\'e band electrons, we find that phonons generate attractive interactions in both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-19 Fengcheng Wu , A. H. MacDonald , Ivar Martin

The temperature and pressure dependence of the partial density of phonon states of iron atoms in superconducting Fe1.01Se was studied by 57Fe nuclear inelastic scattering (NIS). The high energy resolution allows for a detailed observation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 V. Ksenofontov , G. Wortmann , A. I. Chumakov , T. Gasi , S. Medvedev , T. M. McQueen , R. J. Cava , C. Felser

Electron-phonon coupling in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene is an important but difficult topic. We propose a scheme to simplify and understand this problem. Weighted by the coupling strength with the low-energy heavy electrons ($f$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Hao Shi , Wangqian Miao , Xi Dai

We present the first scanning tunneling spectroscopy study of single-crystalline boron doped diamond. The measurements were performed below 100 mK with a low temperature scanning tunneling microscope. The tunneling density of states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Sacepe , C. Chapelier , C. Marcenat , J. Kacmarcik , T. Klein , M. Bernard , E. Bustarret

Observed optical reflectivity in the infrared spectral region is compared with theoretical predictions in a strongly coupled electron-phonon system. Starting from a Froehlich Hamiltonian, the spectral functions and their temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 H. J. Kaufmann , E. G. Maksimov , E. K. H. Salje

Inelastic neutron scattering has been used to study the in-plane Cu-O bond-stretching mode in oxygen doped La$_{1.94}$Sr$_{0.06}$CuO$_{4.035}$ ($T_c = 38\,\text{K}$) and La$_2$CuO$_{4+\delta}$ ($T_c = 43\,\text{K}$). Similar to results from…

We have measured near normal incidence far infrared (FIR) reflectivity spectra of a single crystal of TbMnO3 from 10K to 300K in the spectral range of 50 cm$^{-1}$ to 700 cm$^{-1}$. Fifteen transverse optic (TO) and longitudinal optic (LO)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Pradeep Kumar , Surajit Saha , C. R. Serrao , A. K. Sood , C. N. R. Rao

We report evidence of a non-adiabatic Kohn anomaly in boron-doped diamond, using a joint theoretical and experimental analysis of the phonon dispersion relations. We demonstrate that standard calculations of phonons using density functional…

It is argued that electron density dynamic's response to phonons at the Brillouin zone boundary is the key factor in the superconductivity mechanism of MgB2 as well as of all superconducting compounds leading to a real space electron-hole…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-15 T. Guerfi

In superconducting copper oxides some Cu-O bond-stretching phonons around 70meV show anomalous giant softening and broadening of electronic origin and electronic dispersions have large renormalization kinks near the same energy. These…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-01-27 S. R. Park , T. Fukuda , A. Hamann , D. Lamago , L. Pintschovius , M. Fujita , K. Yamada , D. Reznik

Electron-phonon coupling, i.e., the scattering of lattice vibrations by electrons and vice versa, is ubiquitous in solids and can lead to emergent ground states such as superconductivity and charge-density wave order. Strong coupling of…

Scanning tunneling spectroscopies are performed below 100~mK on nano-crystalline boron-doped diamond films characterized by Transmission Electron Microscopy and transport measurements. We demonstrate a strong correlation between the local…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 Franck Dahlem , Philipp Achatz , O. A. Williams , D. Araujo , Etienne Bustarret , Hervé Courtois

We report on the evidenced orbital mediated electron phonon coupling and band gap tuning in HoFe1-xCrxO3 compounds. From the room temperature Raman scattering, it is apparent that the electron-phonon coupling is sensitive to the presence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-15 Ganesh Kotnana , S. Narayana Jammalamadaka

We study how attractive boron correlations in boron-doped diamond affect the superconducting critical temperature. The critical temperature is obtained from the McMillan formula for strong coupling superconductors with the density of states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-29 Břetislav Šopík , Pavel Lipavský

Looking for superconductors with higher transition temperature requires a guiding principle. In conventional superconductors, electrons pair up into Cooper pairs via the retarded attraction mediated by electron-phonon coupling.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-11 Da Wang , Wan-Sheng Wang , Qiang-Hua Wang

We performed temperature- and doping-dependent high-resolution Raman spectroscopy experiments on YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-\delta}$ to study $B$$_{\rm 1g}$ phonons. The temperature dependence of the real part of the phonon self-energy shows a…