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电子晶体中向稳定的拓扑保护的隐藏量子态的超快转换

Ultrafast switching to a stable hidden topologically protected quantum state in an electronic crystal

L. Stojchevska, I. Vaskivskyi, T. Mertelj, P. Kusar, D. Svetin, S. Brazovskii, D. Mihailovic

摘要:

如果一个失去平衡的系统可以被诱导沿着一条轨迹到达一个在正常平衡条件下无法到达或甚至不存在的状态,那么就可能产生具有新颖和不寻常性质的隐藏态。在这里,我们报告的发现,一个隐藏的(H)拓扑保护的电子状态在层状二硫属化物1 T-TaS 2晶体达到的结果,由一个单一的35 fs的激光脉冲引起的淬火。H态的性质明显不同于系统的任何其他状态:它表现出电阻的大幅度下降,强烈修改的单粒子和集体模式光谱以及光学反射率的显着变化。特别重要和不寻常的是,H状态在任意长的时间内是稳定的,直到施加激光脉冲、电流或热擦除过程,使其恢复到热力学基态。主要观察到的事件可以再现的动力学模型描述的光激发的电子和空穴转换成电子有序的晶体,从而将一个莫特绝缘体的导电H状态。它的长期稳定性来自于电子晶体中周期数的拓扑保护。

英文摘要:

Hidden states of matter with novel and unusual properties may be created if a system out of equilibrium can be induced to follow a trajectory to a state which is inaccessible or does not even exist under normal equilibrium conditions. Here we report on the discovery of a hidden (H) topologically protected electronic state in a layered dichalcogenide 1T-TaS2 crystal reached as a result of a quench caused by a single 35 fs laser pulse. The properties of the H state are markedly different from any other state of the system: it exhibits a large drop of electrical resistance, strongly modified single particle and collective mode spectra and a marked change of optical reflectivity. Particularly important and unusual, the H state is stable for an arbitrarily long time until a laser pulse, electrical current or thermal erase procedure is applied, causing it to revert to the thermodynamic ground state. Major observed events can be reproduced by a kinetic model describing the conversion of photo excited electrons and holes into an electronically ordered crystal, thus converting a Mott insulator to a conducting H state. Its long-time stability follows from the topological protection of the number of periods in the electronic crystal.

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