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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 4, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2987
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- MIUR [RBFR10M5BT]
- ERC [291198]
- EU
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- EPSRC [EP/K017144/1, EP/K01711X/1, EP/GO30480/1, EP/G042357/1]
- Cambridge Nokia Research Centre
- EPSRC [EP/K01711X/1, EP/K017144/1, EP/G042357/1, EP/G030480/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- European Research Council (ERC) [291198] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G030480/1, EP/G042357/1, EP/K017144/1, EP/K01711X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Graphene is emerging as a viable alternative to conventional optoelectronic, plasmonic and nanophotonic materials. The interaction of light with charge carriers creates an out-of-equilibrium distribution, which relaxes on an ultrafast timescale to a hot Fermi-Dirac distribution, that subsequently cools emitting phonons. Although the slower relaxation mechanisms have been extensively investigated, the initial stages still pose a challenge. Experimentally, they defy the resolution of most pump-probe setups, due to the extremely fast sub-100 fs carrier dynamics. Theoretically, massless Dirac fermions represent a novel many-body problem, fundamentally different from Schrodinger fermions. Here we combine pump-probe spectroscopy with a microscopic theory to investigate electron-electron interactions during the early stages of relaxation. We identify the mechanisms controlling the ultrafast dynamics, in particular the role of collinear scattering. This gives rise to Auger processes, including charge multiplication, which is key in photovoltage generation and photodetectors.
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