Nonlinearity in the dynamics of photoinduced nucleation process
arXiv:0708.2869 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.116403
Abstract
Nonlinear dynamics of photoinduced cooperative phenomena is studied by numerical calculations on a model of molecular crystals. We found that the photoinduced nucleation process is triggered only when certain amount of excitation energy is supplied in a narrow part of the system, i.e., there exists a smallest cluster of excited molecules which makes the nucleation possible. As a result, the portion of the cooperatively converted molecules is nonlinearly dependent on the photoexcitation strength, which has been observed in various materials.
10pages, 4 figures