@article{BojahrGohlkeLeitenbergeretal.2015,
  author    = {Bojahr, Andre and Gohlke, Matthias and Leitenberger, Wolfram and Pudell, Jan-Etienne and Reinhardt, Matthias and von Reppert, Alexander and R{\"o}ssle, Matthias and Sander, Mathias and Gaal, Peter and Bargheer, Matias},
  title     = {Second Harmonic Generation of Nanoscale Phonon Wave Packets},
  series = {Physical review letters},
  volume    = {115},
  journal   = {Physical review letters},
  number    = {19},
  publisher = {American Physical Society},
  address   = {College Park},
  issn      = {0031-9007},
  doi       = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.195502},
  pages     = {5},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Phonons are often regarded as delocalized quasiparticles with certain energy and momentum. The anharmonic interaction of phonons determines macroscopic properties of the solid, such as thermal expansion or thermal conductivity, and a detailed understanding becomes increasingly important for functional nanostructures. Although phonon-phonon scattering processes depicted in simple wave-vector diagrams are the basis of theories describing these macroscopic phenomena, experiments directly accessing these coupling channels are scarce. We synthesize monochromatic acoustic phonon wave packets with only a few cycles to introduce nonlinear phononics as the acoustic counterpart to nonlinear optics. Control of the wave vector, bandwidth, and consequently spatial extent of the phonon wave packets allows us to observe nonlinear phonon interaction, in particular, second harmonic generation, in real time by wave-vector-sensitive Brillouin scattering with x-rays and optical photons.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MaertenBojahrGohlkeetal.2015,
  author    = {Maerten, Lena and Bojahr, Andre and Gohlke, Mathias and R{\"o}ssle, Matthias and Bargheer, Matias},
  title     = {Coupling of GHz Phonons to Ferroelastic Domain Walls in SrTiO3},
  series = {Physical review letters},
  volume    = {114},
  journal   = {Physical review letters},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {American Physical Society},
  address   = {College Park},
  issn      = {0031-9007},
  doi       = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.047401},
  pages     = {5},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {We study the linear and nonlinear acoustic response of SrTiO3 across its ferroelastic transition at T-a = 105 K by time domain Brillouin scattering. Above T-a we observe that for a strain amplitude of similar to 0.18\% the sound velocity for compressive strain exceeds the tensile strain velocity by 3\%. Below T-a we find a giant slowing down of the sound velocity by 12\% and attribute this to the coupling of GHz phonons to ferroelastic twin domain walls. We propose a new mechanism for this coupling on the ultrafast time scale, providing an important new test ground for theories used to simulate atomic motion in domain forming crystals.},
  language  = {en}
}