I am trying to understand diagrams that involve showing phonon scattering processes that contribute to raman spectroscopy peaks.
For example, I drew the one at the bottom of this post. This is supposed to the scattering process responsible for the D peak in graphene. I'm trying to understand exactly what the arrows represent.
At initial glance it looks almost as if the phonon scatters and increases energy of magnitude $E_L$ and transitions to another branch, then scatters again, losing energy of magnitude $D$, which is somehow indicative of the D peak?
Thanks!