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Autores principales: Wan, Jacky C., Arp, Trevor B., Gabor, Nathaniel M.
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Publicado: 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03058
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author Wan, Jacky C.
Arp, Trevor B.
Gabor, Nathaniel M.
author_facet Wan, Jacky C.
Arp, Trevor B.
Gabor, Nathaniel M.
contents Hot, dense phases of Dirac fermions - predicted to resemble relativistic plasma - are uniquely accessible through photoexcitation of pristine, charge neutral graphene. We demonstrate a sensitive temperature probe of the photoexcited Dirac state, called interlayer optoelectronic thermometry, which measures out-of-plane transport of hot carriers in high-mobility, neutral graphene encapsulated within graphene-hBN-graphene heterostructures. At a critical intermediate sample temperature T = 50 K, the electronic temperature Te is quenched, exhibiting an intrinsic cooling rate that exceeds 10^14 Kelvin/s within the first picosecond after photoexcitation. Quenching is further enhanced by applying in-plane voltages within the stack-engineered heterostructure. Extreme sensitivity of Te to sample temperature and applied voltages reveals anomalously efficient hot-carrier quenching, which we identify as an essential feature of the strongly interacting hot Dirac excited state.
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spellingShingle Dirac excited state quenching in graphene
Wan, Jacky C.
Arp, Trevor B.
Gabor, Nathaniel M.
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Hot, dense phases of Dirac fermions - predicted to resemble relativistic plasma - are uniquely accessible through photoexcitation of pristine, charge neutral graphene. We demonstrate a sensitive temperature probe of the photoexcited Dirac state, called interlayer optoelectronic thermometry, which measures out-of-plane transport of hot carriers in high-mobility, neutral graphene encapsulated within graphene-hBN-graphene heterostructures. At a critical intermediate sample temperature T = 50 K, the electronic temperature Te is quenched, exhibiting an intrinsic cooling rate that exceeds 10^14 Kelvin/s within the first picosecond after photoexcitation. Quenching is further enhanced by applying in-plane voltages within the stack-engineered heterostructure. Extreme sensitivity of Te to sample temperature and applied voltages reveals anomalously efficient hot-carrier quenching, which we identify as an essential feature of the strongly interacting hot Dirac excited state.
title Dirac excited state quenching in graphene
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03058