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Coherent amplitudon generation in K_0.3MoO_3 through ultrafast inter-band quasi particle decay
The charge density wave system K_0.3MoO_3 has been studied using variable
energy pump-probe spectroscopy, ellipsometry, and inelastic light scattering.
The observed transient reflectivity response exhibits quite a complex behavior,
containing contributions due to quasi particle excitations, coherent
amplitudons and phonons, and heating effects. The generation of coherent
amplitudons is discussed in terms of relaxation of photo-excited quasi
particles, and is found to be resonant with the interband plasmon frequency.
Two additional coherent excitations observed in the transients are assigned to
zone-folding modes of the charge density wave state