Ultrafast dynamics of vibrational symmetry breaking in a charge-ordered nickelate

Coslovich, Giacomo; Kemper, Alexander F.; Behl, Sascha; Huber, Bernhard; Bechtel, Hans A.; Sasagawa, Takao; Martin, Michael C.; Lanzara, Alessandra; Kaindl, Robert A.

doi:10.1126/sciadv.1600735

Title: Ultrafast dynamics of vibrational symmetry breaking in a charge-ordered nickelate

Journal Article · Fri Nov 24 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Science Advances

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600735· OSTI ID:1432217

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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa (Japan)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)

The ability to probe symmetry-breaking transitions on their natural time scales is one of the key challenges in nonequilibrium physics. Stripe ordering represents an intriguing type of broken symmetry, where complex interactions result in atomic-scale lines of charge and spin density. Although phonon anomalies and periodic distortions attest the importance of electron-phonon coupling in the formation of stripe phases, a direct time-domain view of vibrational symmetry breaking is lacking. We report experiments that track the transient multi-terahertz response of the model stripe compound La_1.75Sr_0.25NiO₄, yielding novel insight into its electronic and structural dynamics following an ultrafast optical quench. We find that although electronic carriers are immediately delocalized, the crystal symmetry remains initially frozen—as witnessed by time-delayed suppression of zone-folded Ni–O bending modes acting as a fingerprint of lattice symmetry. Longitudinal and transverse vibrations react with different speeds, indicating a strong directionality and an important role of polar interactions. As a result, the hidden complexity of electronic and structural coupling during stripe melting and formation, captured here within a single terahertz spectrum, opens new paths to understanding symmetry-breaking dynamics in solids.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1432217

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1419320

Journal Information:: Science Advances, Vol. 3, Issue 11; ISSN 2375-2548

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