Propagating insulator-to-metal transition in the wake of photoinduced strain waves in a Mott material
Tatsuya Amano,
Danylo Babich,
Ritwika Mandal
et al.
Abstract:Ultrafast physics opens new avenues for directing materials to different functional macroscopic states on non-thermal dynamical pathways. In any phase transition involving volume and/or ferroelastic deformation, an often overlooked mechanism emerges whereby photoinduced elastic waves drive the transition. However, a comprehensive physical picture of transformation dynamics which includes acoustic scale propagation remained elusive. Here we show that such a strain wave mechanism drives the ultrafast insulator-t… Show more
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