Pair-breaking and superconducting state recovery dynamics in MgB2

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2003-10-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310379v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

to be published in Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.267002

We present studies of the photoexcited quasiparticle dynamics in MgB2 where, using femtosecond optical techniques, Cooper pair breaking dynamics (PBD) have been temporally resolved for the first time. The PBD are strongly temperature and photoexcitation intensity dependent. Analysis of the PBD using the Rothwarf-Taylor equations suggests that the anomalous PBD arises from the fact that in MgB2 photoexcitation is initially followed by energy relaxation to high frequency phonons instead of, as commonly assumed, e-e thermalization. Furthermore, the bare quasiparticle recombination rate and the probability for pair-breaking by phonons have been determined.

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