Advances in ultrafast control and probing of correlated-electron materials

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 81-91

  Wall, Simon ^a,b,e   Rini, Matteo ^c   Dhesi, Sarnjeet S ^d   Schoenlein, Robert W ^c   Cavalleri, Andrea ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Manganites; photoinduced phase transitions; ultrafast spectroscopy; vibrational excitation

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH CONTROL; ELECTRONIC BAND GAPS; MAGNETORESISTIVE; NONEQUILIBRIUM PHYSICS; ORBITAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM; PHOTO-INDUCED PHASE TRANSITIONS; SOFT X-RAY; TIME DOMAIN; ULTRAFAST CONTROL; ULTRAFAST SPECTROSCOPY; VIBRATIONAL EXCITATION; VIBRATIONAL RESONANCE;

MANGANESE OXIDE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

MANGANITES;

EID: 84856948483     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2105465     Document Type: Article

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