First-order kinetics bottleneck during photoinduced ultrafast insulator-metal transition in 3D orbitally-driven Peierls insulator CuIrS
arXiv:2104.03698 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/abf86d
Abstract
The spinel-structure CuIrS compound displays a rather unusual orbitally-driven three-dimensional Peierls-like insulator-metal transition. The low-T symmetry-broken insulating state is especially interesting due to the existence of a metastable irradiation-induced disordered weakly conducting state. Here we study intense femtosecond optical pulse irradiation effects by means of the all-optical ultrafast multi-pulse time-resolved spectroscopy. We show that the structural coherence of the low-T broken symmetry state is strongly suppressed on a sub-picosecond timescale above a threshold excitation fluence resulting in a structurally inhomogeneous transient state which persists for several-tens of picoseconds before reverting to the low-T disordered weakly conducting state. The electronic order shows a transient gap filling at a significantly lower fluence threshold. The data suggest that the photoinduced-transition dynamics to the high-T metallic phase is governed by first-order-transition nucleation kinetics that prevents the complete ultrafast structural transition even when the absorbed energy significantly exceeds the equilibrium enthalpy difference to the high-T metallic phase. In contrast, the dynamically-decoupled electronic order is transiently suppressed on a sub-picosecond timescale rather independently due to a photoinduced Mott transition.
arXiv commentarXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2005.02207
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