Real-time observation of the coherent transition to a metastable emergent state in 1T-TaS${}_2$

Jan Ravnik, Igor Vaskivskyi, Tomaz Mertelj +1

The transition to a hidden metastable state in 1T-TaS2 is investigated in real time using coherent time-resolved femtosecond spectroscopy. Relying on spectral differences between p…