Evidence for a Peierls phase-transition in a three-dimensional multiple charge-density waves solid

Details Evidence for a Peierls phase-transition in a three-dimensional multiple charge-density waves solid Evidence for a Peierls phase-transition in a three-dimensional multiple charge-density waves solid

2012-04-04

arxiv.org/abs/1204.0883v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Accepted for publication in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA

Scientific paper

10.1073/pnas.1117028109

The effect of dimensionality on materials properties has become strikingly evident with the recent discovery of graphene. Charge ordering phenomena can be induced in one dimension by periodic distortions of a material's crystal structure, termed Peierls ordering transition. Charge-density waves can also be induced in solids by strong Coulomb repulsion between carriers, and at the extreme limit, Wigner predicted that crystallization itself can be induced in an electrons gas in free space close to the absolute zero of temperature. Similar phenomena are observed also in higher dimensions, but the microscopic description of the corresponding phase transition is often controversial, and remains an open field of research for fundamental physics. Here, we photoinduce the melting of the charge ordering in a complex three-dimensional solid and monitor the consequent charge redistribution by probing the optical response over a broad spectral range with ultrashort laser pulses. Although the photoinduced electronic temperature far exceeds the critical value, the charge-density wave is preserved until the lattice is sufficiently distorted to induce the phase transition. Combining this result with it ab initio} electronic structure calculations, we identified the Peierls origin of multiple charge-density waves in a three-dimensional system for the first time.

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