Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2006-04-04
Phys. Rev. B 74, 035102 (2006)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
8 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.74.035102
We have studied the relaxation dynamics of optically excited electrons in molybdenum and rhodium by means of time resolved two-photon photoemission spectroscopy (TR-2PPE) and ab initio electron self-energy calculations performed within the GW and GW+T approximations. Both theoretical approaches reproduce qualitatively the experimentally observed trends and differences in the lifetimes of excited electrons in molybdenum and rhodium. For excitation energies exceeding the Fermi energy by more than 1 eV, the GW+T theory yields lifetimes in quantitative agreement with the experimental results. As one of the relevant mechanisms causing different excited state lifetime in Mo and Rh we identify the occupation of the 4d bands. An increasing occupation of the 4d bands results in an efficient decrease of the lifetime even for rather small excitation energies of a few 100 meV.
Aeschlimann Martin
Bauer Marianne
Chulkov Evgueni V.
Echenique Pedro M.
Lange Janina
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