Anisotropy of Quasiparticle Lifetimes and the Role of Disorder for Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Graphite
Moos, Gunnar · Gahl, Cornelius · Fasel, Roman · Wolf, Martin · Hertel, Tobias
Original · EN
Femtosecond time-resolved photoemission of photoexcited electrons in highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) provides strong evidence for anisotropies of quasiparticle (QP) lifetimes. Indicative of such anisotropies is a pronounced anomaly in the energy dependence of QP lifetimes between 1.1 eV and 1.5 eV - the vicinity of a saddle point in the graphite bandstructure. This is supported by recent ab initio calculations and a comparison with experiments on defect-enriched HOPG which reveal that disorder, e.g. defects or phonons, increases electron energy relaxation rates.
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