Relaxation of photoinduced quasi-particles in correlated electron metals

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 340-350

  Talbayev, Diyar ^a   Chia, Elbert E M ^b   Trugman, Stuart A ^c   Zhu, Jian Xin ^c   Taylor, Antoinette J ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated electrons; heavy fermions; high temperature superconductors; spin density wave (SDW); ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

CORRELATED ELECTRONS; DENSITY WAVES; ELECTRONIC CORRELATION; HEAVY FERMION; LOW ENERGIES; METALLIC BEHAVIORS; PHOTO-INDUCED; PNICTIDES; PUMP-PROBE; QUASI PARTICLES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPIN DENSITY WAVE (SDW); ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

BARIUM; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; IRON COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SPIN DENSITY WAVES; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 84856949792     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2136373     Document Type: Article

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