1. Early-Stage Dynamics of Light-Matter Interaction Leading to the Insulator-to-Metal Transition in a Charge Ordered Organic Crystal
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H. Unno, Y. Kawakami, Shinichiro Iwai, Kaoru Yamamoto, Takahiko Sasaki, T. Fukatsu, H. Itoh, Kenji Yonemitsu, Kyuya Yakushi, and Y. Sakurai
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Materials science ,Condensed matter physics ,Infrared ,Intramolecular force ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons ,Insulator (electricity) ,Time domain ,Electron ,Wave function ,Spectroscopy ,Molecular physics ,Ultrashort pulse - Abstract
Ultrafast dynamics of the light-matter interaction in a charge-ordered molecular insulator α-(BEDT-TTF) 2 I 3 were studied by pump-probe spectroscopy using few-optical-cycle infrared pulses (pulse width 12 fs). Coherent oscillation of the correlated electrons and subsequent Fano destructive interference with intramolecular vibration were observed in time domain; the results indicated a crucial role for electron-electron interplay in the light-matter interaction leading to the photoinduced insulator-to-metal transition. The qualitative features of this correlated electron motion were reproduced by calculations based on exact many-electron-phonon wave functions.
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- 2010
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