Imaging coherent phonons and precursor dynamics in LaFeAsO with 4D ultrafast electron microscopy

Gnabasik, Ryan A.; Suri, Pranav K.; Chen, Jialiang; Flannigan, David J.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.024802

Title: Imaging coherent phonons and precursor dynamics in LaFeAsO with 4D ultrafast electron microscopy

Journal Article · Tue Feb 22 00:00:00 EST 2022 · Physical Review Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.024802· OSTI ID:1846206

Gnabasik, Ryan A. ^[1]; Suri, Pranav K. ^[2]; Chen, Jialiang ^[3];

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Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States); Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States); Micron Technology, Boise, ID (United States)
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)

In this work, we used 4D ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM) to directly image femtosecond photoinduced structural dynamics in single-crystal LaFeAsO at initial temperatures of 300 and 100 K, above and below the known structural and magnetic phase-transition temperatures, respectively. With nanometer-picosecond resolution, we resolved an initial (precursor) sigmoidlike response arising from photothermal expansion and lattice reorientation that precedes the onset of propagating coherent acoustic phonons (CAPs). In the specific regions probed, the precursor response at 100 K is shorter than at 300 K ($$t$$_{0.5;100 K} = 11.3ps vs $$t$$_{0.5;300 K} = 17.8ps), and the CAP oscillation frequency is lowered with cooling (ƒ_{CAP;100 K} = 12 GHz vs ƒ_{CAP;300 K} = 21 GHz), correlated to known lattice softening due to the structural phase change. The transient CAP behaviors at 300 K are dispersive, displaying an exponentially decaying phase velocity over the first nanosecond. Further, the CAP symmetry at 300 K matches a first-order antisymmetric shear mode (A₁), while at 100 K it is best matched by a mostly nondispersive zero-order symmetric mode (S₀). These findings illustrate the sensitivity of UEM imaging to spatially heterogeneous dynamics in the Fe-pnictide materials and more broadly in other quantum materials.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)

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

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0018204; SC0016371; DMR-2011401

OSTI ID:: 1846206

Journal Information:: Physical Review Materials, Vol. 6, Issue 2; ISSN 2475-9953

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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