Anisotropic electron-phonon coupling investigated by ultrafast electron crystallography: Three-temperature model

In low-dimensional electronic materials, the charge or spin ordering can be subtly controlled by specific mode or modes, giving rise to functioning states such as charge- and spin-density waves, Mott insulators, and superconductors. The coupling between the electrons and the atomic lattice can be ef...

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Published in:Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics Condensed matter and materials physics, 2013-06, Vol.87 (23), Article 235124
Main Authors: Tao, Zhensheng, Han, Tzong-Ru T., Ruan, Chong-Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anisotropy
Condensed matter
Crystallography
Electronic materials
Electronics
Insulators
Joining
Lattices
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Summary:In low-dimensional electronic materials, the charge or spin ordering can be subtly controlled by specific mode or modes, giving rise to functioning states such as charge- and spin-density waves, Mott insulators, and superconductors. The coupling between the electrons and the atomic lattice can be effectively investigated by ultrafast optical, photoemission, and electron diffraction techniques providing detailed description of microscopic and collective state evolutions in separate electronic and lattice subsystems. However, the electronic and phononic relaxation time scales obtained from these techniques are often distinctly different in low-dimensional electronic materials, even in a system as simple as graphite. Here, we seek to understand their origins from examining the nonequilibrium scenarios considering anisotropic electron-phonon coupling leading to hot phonons, which can be investigated directly from the momentum-dependent scattering changes in the transmission ultrafast electron crystallography. A three-temperature model is constructed to achieve unified understandings combining ultrafast spectroscopy and diffraction results of the nonadiabatic optically driven dynamics in graphite, charge-density waves in CeTe sub(3), and the Mott insulator VO sub(2).
ISSN:1098-0121
1550-235X
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.87.235124