• 文献标题:   Symmetry-Breaking Supercollisions in Landau-Quantized Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WENDLER F, MITTENDORFF M, KONIGOTTO JC, BREM S, BERGER C, DE HEER WA, BOTTGER R, SCHNEIDER H, HELM M, WINNERL S, MALIC E
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Tech Univ Berlin
  • 被引频次:   5
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.067405
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Recent pump-probe experiments performed on graphene in a perpendicular magnetic field have revealed carrier relaxation times ranging from picoseconds to nanoseconds depending on the quality of the sample. To explain this surprising behavior, we propose a novel symmetry-breaking defect-assisted relaxation channel. This enables scattering of electrons with single out-of-plane phonons, which drastically accelerate the carrier scattering time in low-quality samples. The gained insights provide a strategy for tuning the carrier relaxation time in graphene and related materials by orders of magnitude.