Photoinduced ultrafast charge-order melting: Charge-order inversion and nonthermal effects

Ultrafast structural phase transition driven by photoinduced melting of charge and orbital order.

We use femtosecond x-ray diffraction to probe directly the structural dynamics of a charge ordered and orbitally ordered thin film of La0.42Ca0.58MnO3 initiated by an ultrafast optical pulse. At low excitation fluences we observe the displacive excitation of a coherent optical A(g) phonon. Under high excitation conditions we observe a complete phase transition within 1 ps via the disappearance ...

Photoinduced melting and charge order in quarter-filled organic conductors: Itinerant electron systems with competing interactions

Photoinduced charge dynamics in oneand two-dimensional organic conductors are studied theoretically in extended Peierls-Hubbard models. For quasi-one-dimensional (EDO-TTF)2PF6, photoinduced change in the charge order pattern from (0110) to (1010) is accompanied by probe-energy-dependent oscillations of conductivity. This is caused by coexistence of charge order and delocalized electrons. For qu...

Anharmonic effects on charge and orbital order.

Complete 'melting' of charge order in hydrothermally grown Pr0.57Ca0.41Ba0.02MnO3 nanowires.

Nanowires of Pr0.57Ca0.41Ba0.02MnO3 (PCBM) (diameter approximately 80-90 nm and length approximately 3.5 microm) were synthesized by a low reaction temperature hydrothermal method. Single-phase nature of the sample was confirmed by XRD experiments. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) were used to characterize the morphology and microstructures of the na...

Nonthermal melting of a charge density wave in TiSe2.

We use time-resolved optical reflectivity and x-ray diffraction with femtosecond resolution to study the dynamics of the structural order parameter of the charge density wave phase in TiSe2. We find that the energy density required to melt the charge density wave nonthermally is substantially lower than that required for thermal suppression and is comparable to the charge density wave condensat...