Direct Measurement of Anharmonic Decay Channels of a Coherent Phonon

Teitelbaum, Samuel W.; Henighan, Thomas; Huang, Yijing; Liu, Hanzhe; Jiang, Mason P.; Zhu, Diling; Chollet, Matthieu; Sato, Takahiro; Murray, Éamonn D.; Fahy, Stephen; O’Mahony, Shane; Bailey, Trevor P.; Uher, Ctirad; Trigo, Mariano; Reis, David A.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.125901

Title: Direct Measurement of Anharmonic Decay Channels of a Coherent Phonon

Journal Article · 20 September 2018 · Physical Review Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.125901 · OSTI ID:1475393

Teitelbaum, Samuel W. ^[1]; Henighan, Thomas ^[2]; Huang, Yijing ^[3]; Liu, Hanzhe ^[2]; Jiang, Mason P. ^[4]; Zhu, Diling ^[5]; Chollet, Matthieu ^[5]; Sato, Takahiro ^[5]; Murray, Éamonn D. ^[6]; Fahy, Stephen ^[7]; O’Mahony, Shane ^[7]; Bailey, Trevor P. ^[8]; Uher, Ctirad ^[8]; Trigo, Mariano ^[1]; Reis, David A. ^[9]

SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford PULSE Inst. Stanford Inst. for Materials and Energy Sciences
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford PULSE Inst.; Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford PULSE Inst.; Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Applied Physics
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford PULSE Inst.
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)
Imperial College London (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics. Dept. of Materials
Tyndall National Inst., Cork (Ireland); Univ. College Cork (Ireland). Dept. of Physics
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States). Dept. of Physics
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford PULSE Inst. Stanford Inst. for Materials and Energy Sciences; Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Applied Physics. Dept. of Photon Science

In this paper, we report channel-resolved measurements of the anharmonic coupling of the coherent $${A}_{1g}$$ phonon in photoexcited bismuth to pairs of high wave vector acoustic phonons. The decay of a coherent phonon can be understood as a parametric resonance process whereby the atomic displacement periodically modulates the frequency of a broad continuum of modes. This coupling drives temporal oscillations in the phonon mean-square displacements at the $${A}_{1g}$$ frequency that are observed across the Brillouin zone by femtosecond x-ray diffuse scattering. Finally, we extract anharmonic coupling constants between the $${A}_{1g}$$ and several representative decay channels that are within an order of magnitude of density functional perturbation theory calculations.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); Tyndall National Inst., Cork (Ireland); Univ. College Cork (Ireland)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Science Foundation Ireland (SFI); Irish Research Council

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; SC0008574; 12/IA/1601; GOIPG/2015/2784

OSTI ID:: 1475393

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1471767

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 121, Issue 12; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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