• 文献标题:   Enhanced electron-phonon coupling in graphene with periodically distorted lattice
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   POMARICO E, MITRANO M, BROMBERGER H, SENTEF MA, ALTEMIMY A, COLETTI C, STOHR A, LINK S, STARKE U, CACHO C, CHAPMAN R, SPRINGATE E, CAVALLERI A, GIERZ I
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Ctr Free Electron Laser Sci
  • 被引频次:   19
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.95.024304
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Electron-phonon coupling directly determines the stability of cooperative order in solids, including superconductivity, charge, and spin density waves. Therefore, the ability to enhance or reduce electron-phonon coupling by optical driving may open up new possibilities to steer materials' functionalities, potentially at high speeds. Here, we explore the response of bilayer graphene to dynamical modulation of the lattice, achieved by driving optically active in-plane bond stretching vibrations with femtosecond midinfrared pulses. The driven state is studied by two different ultrafast spectroscopic techniques. First, terahertz time-domain spectroscopy reveals that theDrude scattering rate decreases upon driving. Second, the relaxation rate of hot quasiparticles, as measured by time-and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, increases. These two independent observations are quantitatively consistent with one another and can be explained by a transient threefold enhancement of the electron-phonon coupling constant. The findings reported here provide useful perspective for related experiments, which reported the enhancement of superconductivity in alkali-doped fullerites when a similar phonon mode was driven.