Ultrafast metal-to-insulator switching in a strongly correlated system

Abstract

Light-manipulation of correlated electronic phases in solids offers the tantalizing prospect of realizing electronic devices operating at the ultrafast time-scale. In this context, the experimental realization of non-equilibrium transitions from a metal to a band or Mott insulator has shown to be particularly elusive. Using dynamical mean-field theory, we study a simple model representing the main physical properties of the oxygen-enriched compound LaTiO${}_{3+x}$. By properly optimizing the photo-doping of electrons from a low-energy band into the valence states of the system, we show it is possible to induce a valence transition from a correlated metallic state to a Mott insulator at ultrashort time scales and to contain the heating during this process, with the final non-thermal valence insulator having almost the same effective temperature of the starting metal.

arXiv comment9 pages, 7 figures

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