The interrelation of Invar and martensitic behaviour in transition metal alloys like Fe65Ni35 is discussed on the basis of ab initio calculations for stoichiometric systems like Fe3Ni. We also examined face centered cubic iron as a model system for Antiinvar which like Invar shows a pronounced phonon softening. Neutron scattering experiments on Invar systems have shown that the TA1 phonon mode ...

Band calculations on HgBa2CuO4 and La(2−x)SrxCuO4 with phonon and spin-waves within the CuO planes show that partial gaps are created at various energies depending on wavelengths. Spin and phonon gaps appear at different energies when the modulations are along [1,1,0], while they are at the same energy for modulations along [1,0,0]. It is shown that the ability to form gaps and antiferromagneti...

In this study, Bio-based carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have received considerable research attention due to their comparative advantages of high level stability, simplistic use, low toxicity and overall environmental friendliness. New potentials for improvement in heat transfer applications are presented due to their high aspect ratio, high thermal conductivity and special surface area. Phonons have ...

We investigate electron-phonon coupling in a silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor by measuring heat flow. Earlier studies of the electron-phonon interaction through similar measurements were complicated by electron diffusion, a competing cooling mechanism. We reduce the diffusion by using an unusually long sample, and account for the remainder by comparing results from two ...

We demonstrate a new time-domain surface phonon spectroscopy. We excite coherent surface optical phonons with an ultrashort laser pulse and probe the free-induction decay with time-resolved surface second-harmonic generation. For both clean GaAs (110) and (100) surfaces, the signals are remarkably large due to the highly localized electron-phonon interaction at the surface and the intrinsic sur...

We calculate the spin relaxation rates in parabolic quantum dots due to the phonon modulation of the spin-orbit interaction in presence of an external magnetic field. Both, deformation potential (DP) and piezoelectric (PE) electron-phonon couplings are included in the Pavlov-Firsov spin-phonon Hamiltonian. We demonstrate that the spin relaxation rates are particularly sensitive with the Landé g...

We propose a scheme to implement quantum gates on any pair of trapped ions immersed in a large linear crystal, using interaction mediated by the transverse phonon modes. Compared with the conventional approaches based on the longitudinal phonon modes, this scheme is much less sensitive to ion heating and thermal motion outside of the Lamb-Dicke limit thanks to the stronger confinement in the tr...