Optically enhanced coherent transport in YBa2 Cu3 O 6.5 by ultrafast redistribution of interlayer coupling

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 705-711

  Hu, W ^a   Kaiser, S ^a   Nicoletti, D ^a   Hunt, C R ^a,b   Gierz, I ^a   Hoffmann, M C ^a   Le Tacon, M ^c   Loew, T ^c   Keimer, B ^c   Cavalleri, A ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF MATTER   (Germany)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

CHARGE STRIPES; COHERENT TRANSPORTS; COMPETING ORDERS; INTERLAYER COUPLING; INTRA-BILAYER COUPLING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECTRAL WEIGHT; STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84903203042     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3963     Document Type: Article

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