Ultrafast formation of domain walls of a charge density wave in SmTe3

Trigo, M.; Giraldo-Gallo, P.; Clark, J. N.; Kozina, M. E.; Henighan, T.; Jiang, M. P.; Chollet, M.; Fisher, I. R.; Glownia, J. M.; Katayama, T.; Kirchmann, P. S.; Leuenberger, D.; Liu, H.; Reis, D. A.; Shen, Z. X.; Zhu, D.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.103.054109

Ultrafast formation of domain walls of a charge density wave in SmTe₃

Journal Article · Mon Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2021 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.103.054109· OSTI ID:1765887

Trigo, M. ^[1]; Giraldo-Gallo, P. ^[2]; Clark, J. N. ^[3]; Kozina, M. E. ^[4]; Henighan, T. ^[4]; Jiang, M. P. ^[4]; Chollet, M. ^[3]; Fisher, I. R. ^[4]; Glownia, J. M. ^[3]; Katayama, T. ^[5]; ^[3]; Leuenberger, D. ^[4]; Liu, H. ^[4]; ^[4]; Shen, Z. X. ^[4]; Zhu, D. ^[3]

SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Stanford Univ., CA (United States); Univ. de Los Andes, Bogota (Colombia)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Inst., Hyogo (Japan)

We study ultrafast x-ray diffraction on the charge density wave (CDW) of SmTe₃ using an x-ray free-electron laser. The high momentum and time resolution afforded by the x-ray laser enabled capturing fine wave-vector and time-dependent features of the CDW that originate from fast (in time) and sharp (in real space) variations of the CDW lattice distortion, which we attribute to an inversion of the order parameter. These domain inversions occur near the surface and are caused by the short penetration depth of the near-infrared pump with the wavelength centered at 800 nm, resulting in CDW domain walls perpendicular to the sample surface. These domain walls break the CDW long-range order on the scale of the x-ray probe depth, controlled experimentally by the x-ray incidence angle and suppress the diffraction intensity of the CDW for times much longer than the ~1–ps recovery of the electronic gap observed in time and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We model the spatial and temporal dependences of the order parameter using a simple Ginzburg-Landau model with all the parameters obtained from the published literature. We find reasonable agreement between the calculated and the measured diffraction across the momentum, time, fluence, and incidence angle dependence without adjusting any parameters. In conclusion, we reconstruct the spatial and temporal dependences of the lattice order parameter and find that at long times, depending on the pump fluence, multiple domain walls remain at distances of a few nanometers from the surface.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Contributing Organization:: Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1765887

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 103; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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