Forcibly driven coherent soft phonons in GeTe with intense THz-rate pump fields

Details Forcibly driven coherent soft phonons in GeTe with intense THz-rate pump fields Forcibly driven coherent soft phonons in GeTe with intense THz-rate pump fields

2010-11-16

arxiv.org/abs/1011.3624v2

Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 4921 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1633016

We propose an experimental technique to generate large amplitude coherent phonons with irradiation of THz-rate pump pulses and to study the dynamics of phase transition in GeTe ferroelectrics. When a single pump pulse irradiates the sample at various pump power densities, the frequency of the soft phonon decreases sub-linearly and saturates at higher pump powers. By contrast, when THz-rate pump pulse sequence irradiates the sample at matched time intervals to forcibly drive the oscillation, a large red-shift of the phonon frequency is observed without saturation effects. After excitation with a four pump pulse sequence, the coherent soft phonon becomes strongly damped leading to a near critical damping condition. This condition indicates that the lattice is driven to a precursor state of the phase transition.

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