Electron-phonon coupling in metals at high electronic temperatures

Abstract

Electron-phonon coupling, being one of the most important parameters governing the material evolution after ultrafast energy deposition, yet remains the most unexplored one. In this work, we applied the dynamical coupling approach to calculate the nonadiabatic electron-ion energy exchange in nonequilibrium solids with the electronic temperature high above the atomic one. It was implemented into the tight-binding molecular dynamics code, and used to study electron-phonon coupling in various elemental metals. The developed approach is a universal scheme applicable to electronic temperatures up to a few electron-Volts, and to arbitrary atomic configuration and dynamics. We demonstrate that the calculated electron-ion (electron-phonon) coupling parameter agrees well with the available experimental data in high-electronic-temperature regime, validating the model. The following materials are studied here - fcc metals: Al, Ca, Ni, Cu, Sr, Y, Zr, Rh, Pd, Ag, Ir, Pt, Au, Pb; hcp metals: Mg, Sc, Ti, Co, Zn, Tc, Ru, Cd, Hf, Re, Os; bcc metals: V, Cr, Fe, Nb, Mo, Ba, Ta, W; diamond cubic lattice metals: Sn; specific cases of Ga, In, Mn, Te and Se; and additionally semimetal graphite and semiconductors Si and Ge. For many materials, we provide the first and so far the only estimation of the electron-phonon coupling at elevated electron temperatures, which can be used in various models simulating ultrafast energy deposition in matter. We also discuss the dependence of the coupling parameter on the atomic mass, temperature and density.

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