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Picosecond volume expansion drives a later-time insulator–metal transition in a nano-textured Mott insulator

Anita Verma, Denis Golež, Oleg Gorobtsov, Kelson Kaj, Ryan Russell, Jeffrey Z. Kaaret, Erik Lamb, Guru Khalsa, Hari P. Nair, Yifei Sun, Ryan Bouck, Nathaniel J. Schreiber, Jacob Ruf, Varun Ramaprasad, Yuya Kubota, Tadashi Togashi, Vladimir A. Stoica, Hari Padmanabhan, J. W. Freeland, Nicole A. Benedek, Oleg Shpyrko, John Harter, Richard D. Averitt, Darrell G. Schlom, Kyle Shen, Andrew J. Millis, Andrej Singer

2024Nature Physics17 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

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Mott insulatorCondensed matter physicsMott transitionMetal–insulator transitionPhysicsPhotoexcitationMetastabilityPhase transitionPicosecondNucleationAtomic electron transitionMaterials scienceExcitationLaserOpticsHubbard modelQuantum mechanicsSuperconductivitySpectral lineThermodynamicsElectrical resistivity and conductivityPhysics of Superconductivity and MagnetismMagnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materialsAdvanced Condensed Matter Physics