Nonequilibrium Phase Precursors during a Photoexcited Insulator-to-Metal Transition in V2O3

Singer, Andrej; Ramirez, Juan Gabriel; Valmianski, Ilya; Cela, Devin; Hua, Nelson; Kukreja, Roopali; Wingert, James; Kovalchuk, Olesya; Glownia, James M.; Sikorski, Marcin; Chollet, Matthieu; Holt, Martin; Schuller, Ivan K.; Shpyrko, Oleg G.

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.120.207601

Title: Nonequilibrium Phase Precursors during a Photoexcited Insulator-to-Metal Transition in $V_{2} O_{3}$

Journal Article · Mon May 14 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.120.207601· OSTI ID:1458468

Singer, Andrej ^[1]; Ramirez, Juan Gabriel ^[2]; Valmianski, Ilya ^[1]; Cela, Devin ^[1]; Hua, Nelson ^[1]; Kukreja, Roopali ^[3]; Wingert, James ^[1]; Kovalchuk, Olesya ^[1]; Glownia, James M. ^[4]; Sikorski, Marcin ^[4]; Chollet, Matthieu ^[4]; Holt, Martin ^[5]; Schuller, Ivan K. ^[1]; Shpyrko, Oleg G. ^[1]

Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Center for Advanced Nanoscience
Univ. de los Andes, Bogota (Columbia). Dept. of Physics
Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Center for Advanced Nanoscience; Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Center for Memory and Recording Research
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials

Here, we photoinduce and directly observe with x-ray scattering an ultrafast enhancement of the structural long-range order in the archetypal Mott system V2O3. Despite the ultrafast increase in crystal symmetry, the change of unit cell volume occurs an order of magnitude slower and coincides with the insulator-to-metal transition. The decoupling between the two structural responses in the time domain highlights the existence of a transient photoinduced precursor phase, which is distinct from the two structural phases present in equilibrium. X-ray nanoscopy reveals that acoustic phonons trapped in nanoscale twin domains govern the dynamics of the ultrafast transition into the precursor phase, while nucleation and growth of metallic domains dictate the duration of the slower transition into the metallic phase. The enhancement of the long-range order before completion of the electronic transition demonstrates the critical role the nonequilibrium structural phases play during electronic phase transitions in correlated electrons systems.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

Grant/Contract Number:: FA9550-16-1-0026; MRPI MR-15-328-528; SC0001805; FG02-87ER45332; AC02-76SF00515; AC02-06CH11357; 120471250659; 120424054303

OSTI ID:: 1458468

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1437073; OSTI ID: 1461498

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 120, Issue 20; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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