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超快激光辐照固体中的电子非平衡效应

Electronic nonequilibrium effect in ultrafast-laser-irradiated solids

Nikita Medvedev

AI总结:

本文通过紧束缚分子动力学模拟,研究超快激光辐照固体中的电子非平衡效应,发现其减慢电子-声子耦合并改变半导体和绝缘体的非热相变损伤阈值,强调可靠模型需同时包含电子非平衡、非绝热耦合和非热势演化。

摘要:

本文描述了材料超快激光辐照模拟中电子非平衡效应的影响。基于紧束缚分子动力学的模拟方案,结合蒙特卡洛和玻尔兹曼方程追踪电子布居,能够同时模拟非平衡、非热和非绝热(电子-声子耦合)效应。电子-电子热化在弛豫时间近似下描述,该近似自动恢复各种已知极限,如瞬时热化(热化时间$τ_{e-e} \rightarrow 0$)和玻恩-奥本海默近似($τ_{e-e} \rightarrow \infty$)。模拟结果表明,在所有研究的材料(金属、半导体和绝缘体)中,电子系统的非平衡态相对于电子平衡情况减慢了电子-声子耦合。在半导体和绝缘体中,它还改变了由电子激发引起的原子间势修正所导致的超快非热相变的损伤阈值。研究表明,排除电子-电子热化的模型(使用$τ_{e-e} \rightarrow \infty$的假设,如BO或Ehrenfest近似)可能产生定性不同的结果,而可靠的模型应包含所有三种效应:电子非平衡、非绝热电子-离子耦合和原子间势的非热演化。

英文摘要:

This paper describes the effects of electronic nonequilibrium in a simulation of ultrafast laser irradiation of materials. The simulation scheme based on tight-binding molecular dynamics, in which the electronic populations are traced with a combined Monte Carlo and Boltzmann equation, enables the modeling of nonequilibrium, nonthermal, and nonadiabatic (electron-phonon coupling) effects simultaneously. The electron-electron thermalization is described within the relaxation-time approximation, which automatically restores various known limits such as instantaneous thermalization (the thermalization time $τ_{e-e} \rightarrow 0$) and Born-Oppenheimer approximation ($τ_{e-e} \rightarrow \infty$). The results of the simulation suggest that the non-equilibrium state of the electronic system slows down electron-phonon coupling with respect to the electronic equilibrium case in all studied materials: metals, semiconductors, and insulators. In semiconductors and insulators, it also alters the damage threshold of ultrafast nonthermal phase transitions induced by modification of the interatomic potential due to electronic excitation. It is demonstrated that the models that exclude electron-electron thermalization (using the assumption of $τ_{e-e} \rightarrow \infty$, such as BO or Ehrenfest approximations) may produce qualitatively different results, and a reliable model should include all three effects: electronic nonequilibrium, nonadiabatic electron-ion coupling, and nonthermal evolution of interatomic potential.

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