Nanoscale-femtosecond dielectric response of Mott insulators captured by two-color near-field ultrafast electron microscopy

Fu, Xuewen; Barantani, Francesco; Gargiulo, Simone; Madan, Ivan; Berruto, Gabriele; LaGrange, Thomas; Jin, Lei; Wu, Junqiao; Vanacore, Giovanni Maria; Carbone, Fabrizio; Zhu, Yimei

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19636-6

Title: Nanoscale-femtosecond dielectric response of Mott insulators captured by two-color near-field ultrafast electron microscopy

Journal Article · Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 EST 2020 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19636-6· OSTI ID:1763998

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Nankai Univ., Tianjin (China); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (Switzlerland); Univ. of Geneva (Switzerland)
Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (Switzlerland)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of Milano-Bicocca, Milano (Italy)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Characterizing and controlling the out-of-equilibrium state of nanostructured Mott insulators hold great promises for emerging quantum technologies while providing an exciting playground for investigating fundamental physics of strongly-correlated systems. Here, we use two-color near-field ultrafast electron microscopy to photo-induce the insulator-to-metal transition in a single VO₂ nanowire and probe the ensuing electronic dynamics with combined nanometer-femtosecond resolution (10^–21m • s). We take advantage of a femtosecond temporal gating of the electron pulse mediated by an infrared laser pulse, and exploit the sensitivity of inelastic electron-light scattering to changes in the material dielectric function. By spatially mapping the near-field dynamics of an individual nanowire of VO₂, we observe that ultrafast photo-doping drives the system into a metallic state on a timescale of ~150 fs without yet perturbing the crystalline lattice. Due to the high versatility and sensitivity of the electron probe, our method would allow capturing the electronic dynamics of a wide range of nanoscale materials with ultimate spatiotemporal resolution.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704; 665667; 200020-179157; DMR-1608899

OSTI ID:: 1763998

Report Number(s):: BNL-220951-2021-JAAM; TRN: US2206126

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 11, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1723

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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