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Jarnac A, Jacques V, Cario L, Janod E, Johnson S, Ravy S, Laulhé C. Photoinduced charge-density wave phase in 1T-TaS 2: growth and coarsening mechanisms. Acta Cryst Sect A 2022. [DOI: 10.1107/s205327332209204x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2023]
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Mariette C, Lorenc M, Cailleau H, Collet E, Guérin L, Volte A, Trzop E, Bertoni R, Dong X, Lépine B, Hernandez O, Janod E, Cario L, Ta Phuoc V, Ohkoshi S, Tokoro H, Patthey L, Babic A, Usov I, Ozerov D, Sala L, Ebner S, Böhler P, Keller A, Oggenfuss A, Zmofing T, Redford S, Vetter S, Follath R, Juranic P, Schreiber A, Beaud P, Esposito V, Deng Y, Ingold G, Chergui M, Mancini GF, Mankowsky R, Svetina C, Zerdane S, Mozzanica A, Bosak A, Wulff M, Levantino M, Lemke H, Cammarata M. Strain wave pathway to semiconductor-to-metal transition revealed by time-resolved X-ray powder diffraction. Nat Commun 2021; 12:1239. [PMID: 33623010 PMCID: PMC7902810 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21316-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
One of the main challenges in ultrafast material science is to trigger phase transitions with short pulses of light. Here we show how strain waves, launched by electronic and structural precursor phenomena, determine a coherent macroscopic transformation pathway for the semiconducting-to-metal transition in bistable Ti3O5 nanocrystals. Employing femtosecond powder X-ray diffraction, we measure the lattice deformation in the phase transition as a function of time. We monitor the early intra-cell distortion around the light absorbing metal dimer and the long range deformations governed by acoustic waves propagating from the laser-exposed Ti3O5 surface. We developed a simplified elastic model demonstrating that picosecond switching in nanocrystals happens concomitantly with the propagating acoustic wavefront, several decades faster than thermal processes governed by heat diffusion.
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- C Mariette
- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes)-UMR 6251, Rennes, France.
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes)-UMR 6251, Rennes, France.
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes)-UMR 6251, Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes)-UMR 6251, Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes)-UMR 6251, Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes)-UMR 6251, Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes)-UMR 6251, Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes)-UMR 6251, Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes)-UMR 6251, Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes)-UMR 6251, Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes)-UMR 6226, Rennes, France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN), Université de Nantes, CNRS, Nantes, France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN), Université de Nantes, CNRS, Nantes, France
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- GREMAN-UMR 7347 CNRS, Université de Tours, Tours, France
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland.,Institute for Materials and Energy Science, Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Lausanne Center for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland.,Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Lausanne Center for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes)-UMR 6251, Rennes, France. .,European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France.
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Diener P, Janod E, Corraze B, Querré M, Adda C, Guilloux-Viry M, Cordier S, Camjayi A, Rozenberg M, Besland MP, Cario L. How a dc Electric Field Drives Mott Insulators Out of Equilibrium. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 121:016601. [PMID: 30028165 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.016601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
Out of equilibrium phenomena are a major issue of modern physics. In particular, correlated materials such as Mott insulators experience fascinating long-lived exotic states under a strong electric field. Yet, the origin of their destabilization by the electric field is not elucidated. Here we present a comprehensive study of the electrical response of canonical Mott insulators GaM_{4}Q_{8} (M=V, Nb, Ta, Mo; Q=S, Se) in the context of a microscopic theory of electrical breakdown where in-gap states allow for a description in terms of a two-temperature model. Our results show how the nonlinearities and the resistive transition originate from a massive creation of hot electrons under an electric field. These results give new insights for the control of the long-lived states reached under an electric field in these systems which has recently open the way to new functionalities used in neuromorphic applications.
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- P Diener
- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, Université de Nantes, CNRS, 2 rue de la Houssinière, BP32229, 44322 Nantes Cedex 3, France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, Université de Nantes, CNRS, 2 rue de la Houssinière, BP32229, 44322 Nantes Cedex 3, France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, Université de Nantes, CNRS, 2 rue de la Houssinière, BP32229, 44322 Nantes Cedex 3, France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, Université de Nantes, CNRS, 2 rue de la Houssinière, BP32229, 44322 Nantes Cedex 3, France
- Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR (Institut des Sciences chimiques de Rennes) UMR 6226, 35000 Rennes, France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, Université de Nantes, CNRS, 2 rue de la Houssinière, BP32229, 44322 Nantes Cedex 3, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR (Institut des Sciences chimiques de Rennes) UMR 6226, 35000 Rennes, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR (Institut des Sciences chimiques de Rennes) UMR 6226, 35000 Rennes, France
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- Departamento de Física, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires and IFIBA, Pabellón I, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 CABA, Argentina
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, Université de Nantes, CNRS, 2 rue de la Houssinière, BP32229, 44322 Nantes Cedex 3, France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, Université de Nantes, CNRS, 2 rue de la Houssinière, BP32229, 44322 Nantes Cedex 3, France
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Laulhé C, Huber T, Lantz G, Ferrer A, Mariager SO, Grübel S, Rittmann J, Johnson JA, Esposito V, Lübcke A, Huber L, Kubli M, Savoini M, Jacques VLR, Cario L, Corraze B, Janod E, Ingold G, Beaud P, Johnson SL, Ravy S. Ultrafast Formation of a Charge Density Wave State in 1T-TaS_{2}: Observation at Nanometer Scales Using Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction. Phys Rev Lett 2017; 118:247401. [PMID: 28665649 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.247401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2017] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
Abstract
Femtosecond time-resolved x-ray diffraction is used to study a photoinduced phase transition between two charge density wave (CDW) states in 1T-TaS_{2}, namely the nearly commensurate (NC) and the incommensurate (I) CDW states. Structural modulations associated with the NC-CDW order are found to disappear within 400 fs. The photoinduced I-CDW phase then develops through a nucleation and growth process which ends 100 ps after laser excitation. We demonstrate that the newly formed I-CDW phase is fragmented into several nanometric domains that are growing through a coarsening process. The coarsening dynamics is found to follow the universal Lifshitz-Allen-Cahn growth law, which describes the ordering kinetics in systems exhibiting a nonconservative order parameter.
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- C Laulhé
- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint Aubin-BP 48, F-91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Université Paris-Saclay (Université Paris-Sud), F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Institute for Quantum Electronics, Physics Department, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Quantum Electronics, Physics Department, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
- Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS, UMR 8502, F-91405 Orsay, France
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute for Quantum Electronics, Physics Department, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Quantum Electronics, Physics Department, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Quantum Electronics, Physics Department, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS, UMR 8502, F-91405 Orsay, France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel-UMR 6502, Université de Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssinière, F-44322 Nantes, France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel-UMR 6502, Université de Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssinière, F-44322 Nantes, France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel-UMR 6502, Université de Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssinière, F-44322 Nantes, France
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute for Quantum Electronics, Physics Department, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS, UMR 8502, F-91405 Orsay, France
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Driss D, Cadars S, Deniard P, Mevellec JY, Corraze B, Janod E, Cario L. Crystal structure and chemical bonding in the mixed anion compound BaSF. Dalton Trans 2017; 46:16244-16250. [DOI: 10.1039/c7dt03611f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
BaSF: a textbook example of a layered mixed anion compound containing sulfur pairs (S2)2−.
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- D. Driss
- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN)
- Université de Nantes
- CNRS
- 44322 Nantes
- France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN)
- Université de Nantes
- CNRS
- 44322 Nantes
- France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN)
- Université de Nantes
- CNRS
- 44322 Nantes
- France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN)
- Université de Nantes
- CNRS
- 44322 Nantes
- France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN)
- Université de Nantes
- CNRS
- 44322 Nantes
- France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN)
- Université de Nantes
- CNRS
- 44322 Nantes
- France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN)
- Université de Nantes
- CNRS
- 44322 Nantes
- France
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Camjayi A, Acha C, Weht R, Rodríguez MG, Corraze B, Janod E, Cario L, Rozenberg MJ. First-order insulator-to-metal Mott transition in the paramagnetic 3D system GaTa4Se8. Phys Rev Lett 2014; 113:086404. [PMID: 25192113 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.086404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
Abstract
The nature of the Mott transition in the absence of any symmetry breaking remains a matter of debate. We study the correlation-driven insulator-to-metal transition in the prototypical 3D Mott system GaTa(4)Se(8), as a function of temperature and applied pressure. We report novel experiments on single crystals, which demonstrate that the transition is of first order and follows from the coexistence of two states, one insulating and one metallic, that we toggle with a small bias current. We provide support for our findings by contrasting the experimental data with calculations that combine local density approximation with dynamical mean-field theory, which are in very good agreement.
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- A Camjayi
- Departamento de Física, FCEN, UBA, and IFIBA, CONICET, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Física, FCEN, UBA, and IFIBA, CONICET, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Gerencia de Investigación y Aplicaciones, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Avenida General Paz y Constituyentes, 1650 San Martín, Argentina and Instituto Sábato, Universidad Nacional de San Martín-CNEA, 1650 San Martín, Argentina
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- Departamento de Física, FCEN, UBA, and IFIBA, CONICET, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN), Université de Nantes, CNRS, 2 rue de la Houssinière, BP32229, 44322 Nantes, France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN), Université de Nantes, CNRS, 2 rue de la Houssinière, BP32229, 44322 Nantes, France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN), Université de Nantes, CNRS, 2 rue de la Houssinière, BP32229, 44322 Nantes, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, CNRS-UMR8502, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay 91405, France
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Ta Phuoc V, Vaju C, Corraze B, Sopracase R, Perucchi A, Marini C, Postorino P, Chligui M, Lupi S, Janod E, Cario L. Optical conductivity measurements of GaTa4Se8 under high pressure: evidence of a bandwidth-controlled insulator-to-metal Mott transition. Phys Rev Lett 2013; 110:037401. [PMID: 23373949 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.037401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
Abstract
The optical properties of a GaTa(4)Se(8) single crystal are investigated under high pressure. At ambient pressure, the optical conductivity exhibits a charge gap of ≈0.12 eV and a broad midinfrared band at ≈0.55 eV. As pressure is increased, the low energy spectral weight is strongly enhanced and the optical gap is rapidly filled, pointing to an insulator to metal transition around 6 GPa. The overall evolution of the optical conductivity demonstrates that GaTa(4)Se(8) is a Mott insulator which undergoes a bandwidth-controlled Mott metal-insulator transition under pressure, in remarkably good agreement with theory. With the use of our optical data and ab initio band structure calculations, our results were successfully compared to the (U/D, T/D) phase diagram predicted by dynamical mean field theory for strongly correlated systems.
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- V Ta Phuoc
- GREMAN, CNRS UMR 7347-CEA, Université F. Rabelais, UFR Sciences, Tours, France
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