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Coherent phonon coupling to individual Bloch states in photoexcited bismuth

  • E. Papalazarou
  • , J. Faure
  • , J. Mauchain
  • , M. Marsi
  • , A. Taleb-Ibrahimi
  • , I. Reshetnyak
  • , A. Van Roekeghem
  • , I. Timrov
  • , N. Vast
  • , B. Arnaud
  • , L. Perfetti
  • Laboratoire de Physique des Solides
  • Synchrotron SOLEIL
  • Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés
  • IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251

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Abstract

We investigate the temporal evolution of the electronic states at the bismuth (111) surface by means of time- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. The binding energy of bulklike bands oscillates with the frequency of the A 1g phonon mode, whereas surface states are insensitive to the coherent displacement of the lattice. A strong dependence of the oscillation amplitude on the electronic wave vector is correctly reproduced by ab initio calculations of electron-phonon coupling. Besides these oscillations, all the electronic states also display a photoinduced shift towards higher binding energy whose dynamics follows the evolution of the electronic temperature.

Original languageEnglish
Article number256808
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume108
Issue number25
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Jun 2012

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