Momentum-resolved electron-phonon interaction in lead determined by neutron resonance spin-echo spectroscopy
Abstract
Neutron resonance spin-echo spectroscopy was used to monitor the temperature evolution of the linewidths of transverse acoustic phonons in lead across the superconducting transition temperature, Tc, over an extended range of the Brillouin zone. For phonons with energies below the superconducting energy gap, a linewidth reduction of maximum amplitude 6 μeV was observed below Tc. The electron-phonon contribution to the phonon lifetime extracted from these data is in satisfactory overall agreement with ab-initio lattice-dynamical calculations, but significant deviations are found.
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