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Title: Producing coherent excitations in pumped Mott antiferromagnetic insulators

Abstract

Nonequilibrium dynamics in correlated materials has attracted attention due to the possibility of characterizing, tuning, and creating complex ordered states. To understand the photoinduced microscopic dynamics, especially the linkage under realistic pump conditions between transient states and remnant elementary excitations, we performed nonperturbative simulations of various time-resolved spectroscopies. We used the Mott antiferromagnetic insulator as a model platform. The transient dynamics of multi-particle excitations can be attributed to the interplay between Floquet virtual states and a modification of the density of states, in which interactions induce a spectral weight transfer. Using an autocorrelation of the time-dependent spectral function, we show that resonance of the virtual states with the upper Hubbard band in the Mott insulator provides the route towards manipulating the electronic distribution and modifying charge and spin excitations. In conclusion, our results link transient dynamics to the nature of many-body excitations and provide an opportunity to design nonequilibrium states of matter via tuned laser pulses.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  2. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND (United States)
  3. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1418329
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1414864
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 96; Journal Issue: 23; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

Citation Formats

Wang, Yao, Claassen, Martin, Moritz, B., and Devereaux, T. P. Producing coherent excitations in pumped Mott antiferromagnetic insulators. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.235142.
Wang, Yao, Claassen, Martin, Moritz, B., & Devereaux, T. P. Producing coherent excitations in pumped Mott antiferromagnetic insulators. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.235142
Wang, Yao, Claassen, Martin, Moritz, B., and Devereaux, T. P. Fri . "Producing coherent excitations in pumped Mott antiferromagnetic insulators". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.235142. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1418329.
@article{osti_1418329,
title = {Producing coherent excitations in pumped Mott antiferromagnetic insulators},
author = {Wang, Yao and Claassen, Martin and Moritz, B. and Devereaux, T. P.},
abstractNote = {Nonequilibrium dynamics in correlated materials has attracted attention due to the possibility of characterizing, tuning, and creating complex ordered states. To understand the photoinduced microscopic dynamics, especially the linkage under realistic pump conditions between transient states and remnant elementary excitations, we performed nonperturbative simulations of various time-resolved spectroscopies. We used the Mott antiferromagnetic insulator as a model platform. The transient dynamics of multi-particle excitations can be attributed to the interplay between Floquet virtual states and a modification of the density of states, in which interactions induce a spectral weight transfer. Using an autocorrelation of the time-dependent spectral function, we show that resonance of the virtual states with the upper Hubbard band in the Mott insulator provides the route towards manipulating the electronic distribution and modifying charge and spin excitations. In conclusion, our results link transient dynamics to the nature of many-body excitations and provide an opportunity to design nonequilibrium states of matter via tuned laser pulses.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.96.235142},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 23,
volume = 96,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Fri Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}

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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: Schematic cartoon illustrating various time regions during a pump process.

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