Аннотация: It is now well established that many of the technologically important properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as the extremely high carrier mobility in graphene(1) and the large direct band gaps in MoS2 monolayers(2), arise from quantum confinement. However, the influence of reduced dimensions on electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling and its attendant dephasing effects in such systems has remained unclear. Although phonon confinement(3-7) is expected to produce a suppression of e-ph interactions in 2D systems with rigid boundary conditions(6,7), experimental verification of this has remained elusive(8). Here, we show that the e-ph interaction is, indeed, modified by a phonon dimensionality crossover in layered Nb3SiTe6 atomic crystals. When the thickness of the Nb3SiTe6 crystals is reduced below a few unit cells, we observe an unexpected enhancement of the weak-antilocalization signature in magnetotransport. This finding strongly supports the theoretically predicted suppression of e-ph interactions caused by quantum confinement of phonons.
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Tulane Univ, Dept Phys & Engn Phys, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
Tulane Univ, Coordinated Instrument Facil, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
Technol Inst Superhard & Novel Carbon Mat, Moscow 142190, Russia
Moscow Inst Phys & Technol, Moscow 141700, Russia
Emanuel Inst Biochem Phys, Moscow 119334, Russia
LV Kirenskii Inst Phys, Krasnoyarsk 660036, Russia
Natl Univ Sci & Technol MISiS, Moscow 119049, Russia
Louisiana State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
Univ New Orleans, Adv Mat Res Inst, New Orleans, LA 70148 USA
Univ New Orleans, Dept Phys, New Orleans, LA 70148 USA
Rice Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Houston, TX 77005 USA
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Hu, J.; Liu, X.; Yue, C. L.; Liu, J. Y.; Zhu, H. W.; He, J. B.; Wei, J.; Mao, Z. Q.; Antipina, L. Yu.; Popov, Z. I.; Попов, Захар Иванович; Sorokin, P.B.; Liu, T.J.; Adams, P.W.; Radmanesh, S. M. A.; Spinu, L.; Ji, H.; Natelson, D.; US National Science Foundation [DMR-1205469]; NSF EPSCoR Cooperative Agreement [EPS-1003897]; Louisiana Board of Regents; US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences [DE-FG02-07ER46420]; Russian Science Foundation [14-12-01217]; Russian Federation [MK-6218.2015.2, 14.Z56.15.6218-MK]; Leading Science School program [NSh-2886.2014.2]; US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences award [DE-FG02-06ER46337]; US National Science Foundation under the NSF EPSCoR Cooperative Agreement [EPS-1003897]