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Femtosecond data storage, processing and search using collective excitations of a macroscopic quantum state
An ultrafast paralell data processor is described in which amplitude mode
excitations of a charge density wave (CDW) are used to encode data on the
surface of a 1-T TaS_2 crystal. The data are written, manipulated and read
using parallel femtosecond laser pulse beams, and the operation of a database
search algorithm is demonstrated on a 2-element array.Comment: To be published in App. Phys. Let
Relaxation Dynamics of Photoinduced Changes in the Superfluid Weight of High-Tc Superconductors
In the transient state of d-wave superconductors, we investigate the temporal
variation of photoinduced changes in the superfluid weight. We derive the
formula that relates the nonlinear response function to the nonequilibrium
distribution function. The latter qunatity is obtained by solving the kinetic
equation with the electron-electron and the electron-phonon interaction
included. By numerical calculations, a nonexponential decay is found at low
temperatures in contrast to the usual exponential decay at high temperatures.
The nonexponential decay originates from the nonmonotonous temporal variation
of the nonequilibrium distribution function at low energies. The main physical
process that causes this behavior is not the recombination of quasiparticles as
previous phenomenological studies suggested, but the absorption of phonons.Comment: 18 pages, 12 figures; to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Vol. 80,
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Observation of van der Waals driven self-assembly of MoSI nanowires into a low-symmetry structure using aberration-corrected electron microscopy
The packing structure of bundled MoSI nanowires is investigated. Scanning and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy are used to determine both the nanowire structure and bundle superstructure. Shown is a high-resolution microscopy image of a small bundle. The image width is 8 nm. It is found that the nanowires pack in crystalline bundles defined by the P1 (#2) spacegroup
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Keywords: We present a femtosecond time-resolved optical spectroscopy (TRS) as an experimental tool to probe the changes in the low energy electronic density of states as a result of short and long range charge density wave order. In these experiments, a femtosecond laser pump pulse excites electron-hole pairs via an interband transition in the material. These hot carriers rapidly release their energy via electron-electron and electron-phonon collisions reaching states near the Fermi energy within 10-100 fs. The presence of an energy gap in the quasiparticle excitation spectrum inhibits the final relaxation step and photoexcited carriers accumulate above the gap. The relaxation and recombination processes of photoexcited quasiparticles are monitored by measuring the time evolution of the resulting photoinduced absorption. This way, the studies of carrier relaxation dynamics give direct information of the temperature-dependent changes in the low energy density of states. Here we present the application of the femtosecond time-resolved optical spectroscopy for studying changes in the low energy electronic density of states in low dimensional charge density wave systems associated with various charge density wave (CDW) transitions and review some recent experiments on quasi 1D and 2D CDW compounds. 1