Ultrafast optical spectroscopy of the lowest energy excitations in the Mott insulator compound YVO 3: Evidence for Hubbard-type excitons

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Novelli, Fabio ^a   Fausti, Daniele ^a,b   Reul, Julia ^c   Cilento, Federico ^b   Van Loosdrecht, Paul H M ^d   Nugroho, Agung A ^e   Palstra, Thomas T M ^d   Grüninger, Markus ^c   Parmigiani, Fulvio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Indonesia)

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EID: 84869038208     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.165135     Document Type: Article

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