Electron-mediated relaxation following ultrafast pumping of strongly correlated materials: Model evidence of a correlation-tuned crossover between thermal and nonthermal states

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Moritz, B ^a,b,c   Kemper, A F ^a   Sentef, M ^a   Devereaux, T P ^a   Freericks, J K ^d  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATED ELECTRONS; EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE; ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION; FALICOV-KIMBALL MODEL; FERMI-DIRAC STATISTICS; METAL-TO-INSULATOR TRANSITIONS; STRONGLY CORRELATED MATERIALS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MECHANICS; METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 84882635231     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.077401     Document Type: Article

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