Federico Mazzola, Justin W. Wells, Rositza Yakimova, Soren Ulstrup, Jill A. Miwa, Richard Balog, Marco Bianchi, Mats Leandersson, Philip Hofmann, T. Balasubramanian
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy reveals pronounced kinks in the dispersion of the sigma band of graphene. Such kinks are usually caused by the combination of a strong electron-boson interaction and the cut-off in the Fermi-Dirac distribution. They are therefore not expected for the $\sigma$ band of graphene that has a binding energy of more than 3.5 eV. We argue that the observed kinks are indeed caused by the electron-phonon interaction, but the role of the Fermi-Dirac distribution cutoff is assumed by a cut-off in the density of $\sigma$ states. The existence of the effect suggests a very weak coupling of holes in the $\sigma$ band not only to the $\pi$ electrons of graphene but also to the substrate electronic states. This is confirmed by the presence of such kinks for graphene on several different substrates that all show a strong coupling constant of lambda=1.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.6210
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