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Title: Persistent order due to transiently enhanced nesting in an electronically excited charge density wave

Abstract

Non-equilibrium conditions may lead to novel properties of materials with broken symmetry ground states not accessible in equilibrium as vividly demonstrated by non-linearly driven mid-infrared active phonon excitation. Potential energy surfaces of electronically excited states also allow to direct nuclear motion, but relaxation of the excess energy typically excites fluctuations leading to a reduced or even vanishing order parameter as characterized by an electronic energy gap. Here, using femtosecond time-and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we demonstrate a tendency towards transient stabilization of a charge density wave after near-infrared excitation, counteracting the suppression of order in the non-equilibrium state. Analysis of the dynamic electronic structure reveals a remaining energy gap in a highly excited transient state. In conclusion, our observation can be explained by a competition between fluctuations in the electronically excited state, which tend to reduce order, and transiently enhanced Fermi surface nesting stabilizing the order.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [3];  [5];  [2];  [1]
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  1. Univ. Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg (Germany); Freie Univ. Berlin, Berlin (Germany)
  2. Freie Univ. Berlin, Berlin (Germany); Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Berlin (Germany)
  3. Geballe Lab. for Advanced Materials, Stanford, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  4. Geballe Lab. for Advanced Materials, Stanford, CA (United States)
  5. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
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Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1238254
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC03-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; physical sciences; condensed matter

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Rettig, L., Cortés, R., Chu, J. -H., Fisher, I. R., Schmitt, F., Moore, R. G., Shen, Z. -X., Kirchmann, P. S., Wolf, M., and Bovensiepen, U. Persistent order due to transiently enhanced nesting in an electronically excited charge density wave. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms10459.
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Rettig, L., Cortés, R., Chu, J. -H., Fisher, I. R., Schmitt, F., Moore, R. G., Shen, Z. -X., Kirchmann, P. S., Wolf, M., & Bovensiepen, U. Persistent order due to transiently enhanced nesting in an electronically excited charge density wave. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10459
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Rettig, L., Cortés, R., Chu, J. -H., Fisher, I. R., Schmitt, F., Moore, R. G., Shen, Z. -X., Kirchmann, P. S., Wolf, M., and Bovensiepen, U. Mon . "Persistent order due to transiently enhanced nesting in an electronically excited charge density wave". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10459. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1238254.
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@article{osti_1238254,
title = {Persistent order due to transiently enhanced nesting in an electronically excited charge density wave},
author = {Rettig, L. and Cortés, R. and Chu, J. -H. and Fisher, I. R. and Schmitt, F. and Moore, R. G. and Shen, Z. -X. and Kirchmann, P. S. and Wolf, M. and Bovensiepen, U.},
abstractNote = {Non-equilibrium conditions may lead to novel properties of materials with broken symmetry ground states not accessible in equilibrium as vividly demonstrated by non-linearly driven mid-infrared active phonon excitation. Potential energy surfaces of electronically excited states also allow to direct nuclear motion, but relaxation of the excess energy typically excites fluctuations leading to a reduced or even vanishing order parameter as characterized by an electronic energy gap. Here, using femtosecond time-and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we demonstrate a tendency towards transient stabilization of a charge density wave after near-infrared excitation, counteracting the suppression of order in the non-equilibrium state. Analysis of the dynamic electronic structure reveals a remaining energy gap in a highly excited transient state. In conclusion, our observation can be explained by a competition between fluctuations in the electronically excited state, which tend to reduce order, and transiently enhanced Fermi surface nesting stabilizing the order.},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms10459},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = ,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Mon Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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