Kohn Anomalies and Electron-Phonon Interaction in Graphite
Abstract
We demonstrate that graphite phonon dispersions have two Kohn anomalies at the Gamma-E2g and K-A'1 modes. The anomalies are revealed by two sharp kinks. By an exact analytic derivation, we show that the slope of these kinks is proportional to the square of the electron-phonon coupling (EPC). Thus, we can directly measure the EPC from the experimental dispersions. The Gamma-E2g and K-A'1 EPCs are particularly large, whilst they are negligible for all the other modes at Gamma and K.
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