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Ultrafast measurements of mode-specific deformation potentials of BiTe and BiSe
Yijing Huang, José D. Querales-Flores, Samuel W. Teitelbaum +24
Quantifying electron-phonon interactions for the surface states of topological materials can provide key insights into surface-state transport, topological superconductivity, and p…
Dynamical Scaling Reveals Topological Defects and Anomalous Evolution of a Photoinduced Phase Transition
Gal Orenstein, Ryan A. Duncan, Gilberto A. de la Pena Munoz +13
Nonequilibrium states of quantum materials can exhibit exotic properties and enable unprecedented functionality and applications. These transient states are inherently inhomogeneou…
Determination of nonthermal bonding origin of a novel photoexcited lattice instability in SnSe
Yijing Huang, Samuel Teitelbaum, Shan Yang +10
Interatomic forces that bind materials are largely determined by an often complex interplay between the electronic band-structure and the atomic arrangements to form its equilibriu…
Influence of local symmetry on lattice dynamics coupled to topological surface states
Jonathan A. Sobota, Samuel W. Teitelbaum, Yijing Huang +18
We investigate coupled electron-lattice dynamics in the topological insulator Bi2Te3 with time-resolved photoemission and time-resolved x-ray diffraction. It is well established th…
Floquet engineering of strongly-driven excitons in monolayer tungsten disulfide
Yuki Kobayashi, Christian Heide, Amalya C. Johnson +4
Interactions of quantum materials with strong-laser fields can induce exotic nonequilibrium electronic states. Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides, a new class of direct-gap…
Ultrafast x-ray scattering reveals composite amplitude collective mode in the Weyl charge density wave material (TaSe)I
Quynh L. Nguyen, Ryan A. Duncan, Gal Orenstein +27
We report ultrafast x-ray scattering experiments of the quasi-1D charge density wave (CDW) material (TaSe)I following photoexcitation with femtosecond infrared laser pulses…
Photo-induced plasmon-phonon coupling in PbTe
M. P. Jiang, M. Trigo, S. Fahy +19
We report the observation of photo-induced plasmon-phonon coupled modes in the group IV-VI semiconductor PbTe using Fourier-transform inelastic X-ray scattering at the Linac Cohere…
Ultrafast x-ray probes of dynamics in solids
Mariano Trigo, Mark P. M. Dean, David A. Reis
Advances in our ability to understand and utilize the world around us have always relied on the development of advanced tools for probing and manipulating materials properties. X-r…
Observation of a Novel Lattice Instability in Ultrafast Photoexcited SnSe
Yijing Huang, Shan Yang, Samuel Teitelbaum +11
There is growing interest in using ultrafast light pulses to drive functional materials into nonequilibrium states with novel properties. The conventional wisdom is that above gap…
Ultrafast modification of the electronic structure of a correlated insulator
O. Grånäs I. Vaskivskyi, X. Wang, P. Thunström +25
A non-trivial balance between Coulomb repulsion and kinematic effects determines the electronic structure of correlated electron materials. The use electromagnetic fields strong en…
Measurements of Nonequilibrium Interatomic Forces in Photoexcited Bismuth
Samuel W. Teitelbaum, Thomas C. Henighan, Hanzhe Liu +11
We determine experimentally the excited-state interatomic forces in photoexcited bismuth. The forces are obtained by a constrained least-squares fit of the excited-state dispersion…
Coherent order parameter dynamics in SmTe
M. Trigo, P. Giraldo-Gallo, M. E. Kozina +13
We present a combined ultrafast optical pump-probe and ultrafast x-ray diffraction measurement of the CDW dynamics in SmTe at 300 K. The ultrafast x-ray diffraction measurement…
Direct Measurement of Anharmonic Decay Channels of a Coherent Phonon
Samuel W. Teitelbaum, Tom Henighan, Yijing Huang +12
We observe anharmonic decay of the photoexcited coherent A1g phonon in bismuth to points in the Brillouin zone where conservation of momentum and energy are satisfied for three-pho…
Direct measurement of non-equilibrium phonon occupations in femtosecond laser heated Au films
T. Chase, M. Trigo, A. H. Reid +9
We use ultrafast electron diffraction to detect the temporal evolution of phonon populations in femtosecond laser-excited ultrathin single-crystalline gold films. From the time-dep…
How to distinguish squeezed and coherent phonons in femtosecond x-ray diffuse scattering
T. Henighan, M. Trigo, M. Chollet +9
Impulsive optical excitation can generate both coherent and squeezed phonons. The expectation value of the phonon displacement oscillates at the mode frequency for the cohe…
Generation of high-frequency strain waves during femtosecond demagnetization of Fe/MgO films
T. Henighan, M. Trigo, S. Bonetti +22
We use femtosecond time-resolved hard x-ray scattering to detect coherent acoustic phonons excited during ultrafast laser demagnetization of bcc Fe films. We determine the lattice…
Phonon Spectroscopy with Sub-meV Resolution by Femtosecond X-ray Diffuse Scattering
Diling Zhu, Aymeric Robert, Tom Henighan +5
We present a reconstruction of the transverse acoustic phonon dispersion of germanium from femtosecond time-resolved x-ray diffuse scattering measurements at the Linac Coherent Lig…
Direct measurement of time-dependent density-density correlations in a solid through the acoustic analog of the dynamical Casimir effect
M. Trigo, M. Fuchs, J. Chen +20
The macroscopic characteristics of a solid, such as its thermal, optical or transport properties are determined by the available microscopic states above its lowest energy level. T…
Imaging nonequilibrium atomic vibrations with x-ray diffuse scattering
M. Trigo, Y. M Sheu, J. Chen +4
For over a century, x-ray scattering has been the most powerful tool for determining the equilibrium structure of crystalline materials. Deviations from perfect periodicity, for ex…
Simulations of Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction in Laue Geometry
B. Lings, M. F. DeCamp, D. A. Reis +2
A method of computer simulation of Time-Resolved X-ray Diffraction (TRXD) in asymmetric Laue (transmission) geometry with an arbitrary propagating strain perpendicular to the cryst…