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用相干声子探测晶格对称性的超快变化

Ultrafast changes in lattice symmetry probed by coherent phonons

Simon Wall, Daniel Wegkamp, Laura Foglia, Joyeeta Nag, Richard F. Haglund, Julia Staehler, Martin Wolf

摘要:

材料的电子和结构性质在很大程度上取决于其对称性。通过光致相变改变对称性提供了在超快时间尺度上操纵材料性质的新方法。然而,为了识别这些相变何时以及多快发生,需要能够探测时域中的对称性变化的方法。我们表明,相干声子谱随时间的变化可以探测晶格势对称性的变化,从而提供了一个全光探测的结构转变。我们研究了VO2的光致结构相变,并表明,在相变阈值以上,光激发完全改变了超快时间尺度上的晶格势。的平衡相声子模式的损失迅速发生,表明光诱导的相变,其中一个强扰动的晶格势改变其对称性之前,离子重排已经发生的非热路径。

英文摘要:

The electronic and structural properties of a material are strongly determined by its symmetry. Changing the symmetry via a photoinduced phase transition offers new ways to manipulate material properties on ultrafast timescales. However, in order to identify when and how fast these phase transitions occur, methods that can probe the symmetry change in the time domain are required. We show that a time-dependent change in the coherent phonon spectrum can probe a change in symmetry of the lattice potential, thus providing an all-optical probe of structural transitions. We examine the photoinduced structural phase transition in VO2 and show that, above the phase transition threshold, photoexcitation completely changes the lattice potential on an ultrafast timescale. The loss of the equilibrium-phase phonon modes occurs promptly, indicating a non-thermal pathway for the photoinduced phase transition, where a strong perturbation to the lattice potential changes its symmetry before ionic rearrangement has occurred.

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