2020/06/24 by Max Burian, Michael Porer, M. Porer +21 · 24 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Charge density #Charge density wave #Condensed matter physics #Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides #Electronic structure #Lattice (music) #Materials science #Organic and Molecular Conductors Research #Perovskite Materials and Applications #Phase transition #Phonon #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Valence (chemistry) #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevresearch.3.013128
published in Physical Review Research 3(1) (American Physical Society) · 19 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2020/06/24 · openalex publication_date 2021/02/10 · arxiv updated 2021/02/17 · openalex created_date 2021/03/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
In this work, we use ultrafast pump-probe nonresonant and resonant x-ray diffraction to track the periodic lattice distortion and the electronic charge density wave in 1T-TiSe 2 upon optical excitation. We observe a fluence regime in which the periodic lattice deformation is strongly suppressed but the charge density wave related Se 4p orbital order remains mostly intact. Complete melting of both structural and electronic order occurs four to five times faster than expected from a purely electronic charge-screening process, strongly suggesting a structurally assisted weakening of excitonic correlations. Our experimental data provide insight on the intricate coupling between structural and electronic order in stabilizing the periodic-lattice-distortion/charge-density-wave state in 1T-TiSe 2 . The results further show that electron-phonon coupling can lead to different, energy dependent phase-transition pathways in condensed matter systems, opening different possibilities in the conception of nonequilibrium phenomena at the ultrafast scale.