A time-dependent order parameter for ultrafast photoinduced phase transitions

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 923-927

  Beaud, P ^a   Caviezel, A ^a   Mariager, S O ^a   Rettig, L ^a   Ingold, G ^a   Dornes, C ^b   Huang, S W ^a   Johnson, J A ^a   Radovic, M ^a   Huber, T ^b   Kubacka, T ^b   Ferrer, A ^a,b   Lemke, H T ^c   Chollet, M ^c   Zhu, D ^c   Glownia, J M ^c   Sikorski, M ^c   Robert, A ^c   Wadati, H ^c   Nakamura, M ^d   Kawasaki, M ^d,e   Tokura, Y ^d,e   Johnson, S L ^b   Staub, U ^a   more..

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; MELTING; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; LONG RANGE ORDERS; PHOTO-INDUCED PHASE TRANSITIONS; STRONG INTERACTION; STRONGLY CORRELATED ELECTRON SYSTEM; TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; TIME RESOLVED X-RAY DIFFRACTIONS; ULTRAFAST MELTING;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

EID: 84922787590     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4046     Document Type: Article

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