Dynamics of non-thermal states in optimally-doped revealed by mid-infrared three-pulse spectroscopy
arXiv:2310.10279 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.110.125102
Abstract
In the cuprates, the opening of a d-wave superconducting (SC) gap is accompanied by a redistribution of spectral weight at energies two orders of magnitude larger than this gap. This indicates the importance to the pairing mechanism of on-site electronic excitations, such as orbital transitions or charge transfer excitations. Here, we resort to a three-pulse pump-probe scheme to study the broadband non-equilibrium dielectric function in optimally-doped and we identify two distinct dynamical responses: i) a blueshift of the central energy of an interband excitation peaked at 2 eV and ii) a change in spectral weight in the same energy range. Photoexcitation with near-IR and mid-IR pulses, with photon energies respectively above and below the SC gap, reveals that the transient changes in the central energy are not modified by the onset of superconductivity and do not depend on the pump photon energy. Conversely, the spectral weight dynamics strongly depends on the pump photon energy and has a discontinuity at the critical temperature. The picture that emerges is that, while high-energy pulses excite quasiparticles in both nodal and thermally inaccessible antinodal states, photoexcitation by low-energy pulses mostly accelerates the condensate and creates excitations predominantly at the nodes of the SC gap. These results, rationalized by kinetic equations for d-wave superconducting gaps, indicate that dynamical control of the momentum-dependent distribution of non-thermal quasiparticles may be achieved by the selective tuning of the photoexcitation.
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