Ultrafast optical nonlinearity in the quasi-one-dimensional Mott insulator Sr2CuO3

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2204-2207

  Ogasawara, T ^a   Ashida, M ^b   Motoyama, N ^a   Eisaki, H ^a   Uchida, S ^a   Tokura, Y ^a   Ghosh, H ^c   Shukla, A ^b,c   Mazumdar, S ^c   Kuwata Gonokami, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHARGE TRANSFER; EXCITONS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONS; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSPARENCY; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

HUBBARD MODEL; MOTT INSULATORS; PHOTON ABSORPTION;

ELECTRIC INSULATORS;

EID: 0034275834     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2204     Document Type: Article

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