Strain-induced enhancement of the electron energy relaxation in strongly correlated superconductors

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gadermaier, C ^a   Kabanov, V V ^a   Alexandrov, A S ^a,b,c   Stojchevska, L ^a   Mertelj, T ^a   Manzoni, C ^d   Cerullo, G ^d   Zhigadlo, N D ^e   Karpinski, J ^e   Cai, Y Q ^f   Yao, X ^f   Toda, Y ^g   Oda, M ^g   Sugai, S ^h,i   Mihailovic, D ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^d POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

ⁱ NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS;

DEFORMATION POTENTIAL; ELECTRON PHONON COUPLINGS; FEMTOSECOND OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; NON-MONOTONIC DEPENDENCE; PHOTOEXCITED CARRIERS; STRAIN INDUCED ENHANCEMENT; SUPERCONDUCTING CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84899767426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.011056     Document Type: Article

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