Witnessing the formation and relaxation of dressed quasi-particles in a strongly correlated electron system

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Novelli, Fabio ^a,b   De Filippis, Giulio ^c   Cataudella, Vittorio ^c   Esposito, Martina ^a   Vergara, Ignacio ^d   Cilento, Federico ^b   Sindici, Enrico ^a   Amaricci, Adriano ^e   Giannetti, Claudio ^f   Prabhakaran, Dharmalingam ^g   Wall, Simon ^h   Perucchi, Andrea ^b,i   Dal Conte, Stefano ^j   Cerullo, Giulio ^j   Capone, Massimo ^e   Mishchenko, Andrey ^k,l   Grüninger, Markus ^d   Nagaosa, Naoto ^k,m   Parmigiani, Fulvio ^a,b,d   Fausti, Daniele ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e DEMOCRITOS NATIONAL SIMULATION CENTER   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

ⁱ INSTM UdR Trieste ST   (Italy)

^j POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^k RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

^l KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; LANTHANUM; OXYGEN;

CORRELATION; ELECTRON; PARTICLE MOTION; TIMESCALE;

ARTICLE; BOSON; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON; EXCITATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84921761168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6112     Document Type: Article

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