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    Electron–phonon coupling in 122 Fe pnictides analyzed by femtosecond time-resolved photoemission
    (Milton Park : Taylor & Francis, 2013) Rettig, L.; Cortés, R.; Jeevan, H.S.; Gegenwart, P.; Wolf, T.; Fink, J.; Bovensiepen, U.
    Based on the results from femtosecond time-resolved photoemission, we compare three different methods for the determination of the electron–phonon coupling constant λ in Eu- and Ba-based 122 FeAs compounds. We find good agreement between all three methods, which reveal a small λ < 0.2. This makes simple electron–phonon-mediated superconductivity unlikely in these compounds.
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    Doping dependence and electron–boson coupling in the ultrafast relaxation of hot electron populations in Ba(Fe1–x Co x )2As2
    (Milton Park : Taylor & Francis, 2016) Avigo, I.; Thirupathaiah, S.; Ligges, M.; Wolf, T.; Fink, J.; Bovensiepen, U.
    Using femtosecond time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy we investigate the effect of electron doping on the electron dynamics in $\mathrm{Ba}{({\mathrm{Fe}}_{1-x}{\mathrm{Co}}_{x})}_{2}{\mathrm{As}}_{2}$ in a range of $0\leqslant x\lt 0.15$ at temperatures slightly above the Néel temperature. By analyzing the time-dependent photoemission intensity of the pump laser excited population as a function of energy, we found that the relaxation times at $0\lt E-{E}_{{\rm{F}}}\lt 0.2\,\mathrm{eV}$ are doping dependent and about 100 fs shorter at optimal doping than for overdoped and parent compounds. Analysis of the relaxation rates also reveals the presence of a pump fluence dependent step in the relaxation time at $E-{E}_{{\rm{F}}}=200\,\mathrm{meV}$ which we explain by coupling of the excited electronic system to a boson of this energy. We compare our results with static ARPES and transport measurements and find disagreement and agreement concerning the doping-dependence, respectively. We discuss the effect of the electron–boson coupling on the energy-dependent relaxation and assign the origin of the boson to a magnetic excitation.
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    Formation of heavy d-electron quasiparticles in Sr3Ru2O7
    (Milton Park : Taylor & Francis, 2013) Allan, M.P.; Tamai, A.; Rozbicki, E.; Fischer, M.H.; Voss, J.; King, P.D.C.; Meevasana, W.; Thirupathaiah, S.; Rienks, E.; Fink, J.; Tennant, D.A .; Perry, R.S.; Mercure, J.F.; Wang, M.A.; Lee, Jinho; Fennie, C.J.; Kim, E.A.; Lawler, M.J.; Shen, K.M.; Mackenzie, A.P.; Shen, Z.X.; Baumberger, F.
    The phase diagram of Sr3Ru2O7 shows hallmarks of strong electron correlations despite the modest Coulomb interaction in the Ru 4d shell. We use angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy measurements to provide microscopic insight into the formation of the strongly renormalized heavy d-electron liquid that controls the physics of Sr3Ru2O7. Our data reveal itinerant Ru 4d-states confined over large parts of the Brillouin zone to an energy range of <6 meV, nearly three orders of magnitude lower than the bare band width. We show that this energy scale agrees quantitatively with a characteristic thermodynamic energy scale associated with quantum criticality and illustrate how it arises from a combination of back-folding due to a structural distortion and the hybridization of light and strongly renormalized, heavy quasiparticle bands. The resulting heavy Fermi liquid has a marked k-dependence of the renormalization which we relate to orbital mixing along individual Fermi surface sheets.
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    Electronic properties of intercalated single-wall carbon nanotubes and C60 peapods
    (Milton Park : Taylor & Francis, 2003) Pichler, T.; Liu, X.; Knupfer, M.; Fink, J.
    This paper reviews recent investigations of the electronic structure and the optical properties of intercalated single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and C60 filled SWCNTs (peapods) using electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) in transmission as a probe. The results from these one-dimensional nanostructures are compared to C60 fullerides and intercalated graphite, which are well understood prototypes of carbon-based intercalation compounds. In detail, the structural changes were analysed by electron diffraction and the doping level and the matrix element weighted unoccupied density of states (DOS) by an analysis of the C 1s core-level excitations. Regarding the optical properties, the intercalation gives rise to a charge transfer to the peapods (SWCNTs) which leads to the formation of a free charge carrier plasmon in the loss function which is analysed within the framework of an effective Drude–Lorentz model.