Orbital dynamics during an ultrafast insulator to metal transition
Sergii Parchenko, E. Paris, Daniel McNally, Elsa Abreu, M. Dantz, E. M. Bothschafter, Alexander H. Reid, W. F. Schlotter, Ming‐Fu Lin, Scott Wandel, Giacomo Coslovich, S. Zohar, Georgi L. Dakovski, James J. Turner, Stefan Moeller, Yi Tseng, M. Radović, Conny Saathe, Marcus Agaaker, J. Nordgren, Steven L. Johnson, Thorsten Schmitt, U. Staub
Abstract
This paper investigates how the orbitals reconstruct on ultrafast timescales, through a photo-induced insulator to metal transition, in the Mott-Hubbard material V2O3. The authors show how time-resolved RIXS can be used at an X-ray free-electron laser to study ultrafast orbital dynamics in a correlated material.
Topics & Concepts
Ultrashort pulseAtomic orbitalHubbard modelCondensed matter physicsElectronMetal–insulator transitionLaserPhysicsTransition metalMott transitionInsulator (electricity)Mott insulatorMaterials scienceMetalAtomic physicsOpticsChemistryOptoelectronicsQuantum mechanicsSuperconductivityBiochemistryMetallurgyCatalysisTransition Metal Oxide NanomaterialsCatalysis and Oxidation ReactionsAdvanced Condensed Matter Physics