Probing the emerging self-organizing behavior and meta-stability in ultrafast photoinduced phase transitions in correlated electron crystals (Conference Presentation)

Chong-Yu Ruan; Faran Zhou; Joseph Williams

doi:10.1117/12.2309833

14 May 2018 Probing the emerging self-organizing behavior and meta-stability in ultrafast photoinduced phase transitions in correlated electron crystals (Conference Presentation)

Chong-Yu Ruan, Faran Zhou, Joseph Williams

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Proceedings Volume 10638, Ultrafast Bandgap Photonics III; 106380L (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309833
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2018, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The advances of ultrafast imaging and spectroscopy technologies in the last decades have enabled a new perspective in understanding the fundamental processes at far from equilibrium. Ranging from molecular systems to long-range-ordered electronic crystals, the photo-driven transient decoupling between constituents, e.g. electronic, spin and vibrational degrees of freedom, allows the interaction hierarchy to be observed. These photoinduced nonequilibrium dynamics are not only central for understanding the complex interactions, but also may yield new ways for controlling the processes with many technical implications. We will discuss a surprising generality of self-organizing behavior emerging at nonequilibrium in driven systems involving many-body metastable phases in electronic crystals visualized by the ultrafast electron imaging techniques. We will focus on photoinduced phase transitions in charge-ordering systems [1,2] while drawing their analog observed in vanadium dioxide nanocrystals [3,4] to highlight this generality and the potential control. We will also discuss methods to combine diffraction, imaging, and spectroscopy in a single setup to follow many key degrees of freedom at once as a next step to resolve complex dynamics in the development of high-intensity ultrafast electron microscopy systems [5,6]. References: [1] T.R. T. Han et al., Phys. Rev. B 86, 075145 (2012). [2] T.R. T. Han et al., Sci. Adv. 1, e1400173 (2015). [3] Z. Tao et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166406 (2012). [4] Z. Tao et al., Sci. Rep. 6, 38514 (2016). [5] F. Zhou, J. Williams, C.-Y. Ruan, Chem. Phys. Lett. 683, 488 (2017). [6] J. Williams et al., Struc. Dyn. 4, 044035 (2017).

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Chong-Yu Ruan, Faran Zhou, and Joseph Williams "Probing the emerging self-organizing behavior and meta-stability in ultrafast photoinduced phase transitions in correlated electron crystals (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10638, Ultrafast Bandgap Photonics III, 106380L (14 May 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309833

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Crystals

Ultrafast imaging

Imaging spectroscopy

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