Jonathan Smyth

Energy relaxation in disordered insulators irradiated by ultrafast protons: a multiscale approach

In this thesis, we probe energy relaxation of the electron-hole plasma in disordered insulators irradiated with a burst of ultrafast protons using a multiscale approach. We begin with a phenomenological extension of the two-temperature model, which characterises the relaxation using two time-scales; a rapid electron-ph...