Kavli Affiliate: Nicole A. Benedek | Summary:Technology moves towards ever faster switching between different electronic and magnetic states of matter. Manipulating properties at terahertz rates requires accessing the intrinsic timescales of electrons (femtoseconds) and associated phonons (10s of femtoseconds to few picoseconds), which is possible with short-pulse photoexcitation. Yet, in many Mott insulators, the electronic […]
Continue.. Picosecond volume expansion drives a later-time insulator-metal transition in a nano-textured Mott Insulator