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Phase Transition in a One-Dimensional Extended Peierls-Hubbard Model with a Pulse of Oscillating Electric Field: I. Threshold Behavior in Ionic-to-Neutral Transition
Photoinduced dynamics of charge density and lattice displacements is
calculated by solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for a
one-dimensional extended Peierls-Hubbard model with alternating potentials for
the mixed-stack organic charge-transfer complex, TTF-CA. A pulse of oscillating
electric field is incorporated into the Peierls phase of the transfer integral.
The frequency, the amplitude, and the duration of the pulse are varied to study
the nonlinear and cooperative character of the photoinduced transition. When
the dimerized ionic phase is photoexcited, the threshold behavior is clearly
observed by plotting the final ionicity as a function of the increment of the
total energy. Above the threshold photoexcitation, the electronic state reaches
the neutral one with equidistant molecules after the electric field is turned
off. The transition is initiated by nucleation of a metastable neutral domain,
for which an electric field with frequency below the linear absorption peak is
more effective than that at the peak. When the pulse is strong and short, the
charge transfer takes place on the same time scale with the disappearance of
dimerization. As the pulse becomes weak and long, the dimerization-induced
polarization is disordered to restore the inversion symmetry on average before
the charge transfer takes place to bring the system neutral. Thus, a
paraelectric ionic phase is transiently realized by a weak electric field. It
is shown that infrared light also induces the ionic-to-neutral transition,
which is characterized by the threshold behavior.Comment: 24 pages, 11 figure
Electronic and Lattice Dynamics in The Photoinduced Ionic-to-Neutral Phase Transition in a One-Dimensional Extended Peierls-Hubbard Model
Real-time dynamics of charge density and lattice displacements is studied
during photoinduced ionic-to-neutral phase transitions by using a
one-dimensional extended Peierls-Hubbard model with alternating potentials for
the one-dimensional mixed-stack charge-transfer complex, TTF-CA. The
time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation and the classical equation of motion are
solved for the electronic and lattice parts, respectively. We show how neutral
domains grow in the ionic background. As the photoexcitation becomes intense,
more neutral domains are created. Above threshold intensity, the neutral phase
is finally achieved. After the photoexcitation, ionic domains with wrong
polarization also appear. They quickly reduce the averaged staggered lattice
displacement, compared with the averaged ionicity. As the degree of initial
lattice disorder increases, more solitons appear between these ionic domains
with different polarizations, which obstruct the growth of neutral domains and
slow down the transition.Comment: 9 pages, 10 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Photoinduced metallic properties of one-dimensional strongly correlated electron systems
We study photoinduced optical responses of one-dimensional strongly
correlated electron systems. The optical conductivity spectra are calculated
for the ground state and a photoexcited state in the one-dimensional Hubbard
model at half filling by using the exact diagonalization method. It is found
that, in the Mott insulator phase, the photoexcited state has large spectral
weights including the Drude weight below the optical gap. As a consequence, the
spectral weight above the optical gap is largely reduced. These results imply
that a metallic state is induced by photoexcitation. Comparison between the
photoexcited and hole-doped states shows that the photoexcitation is similar to
chemical doping.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Direct evidence of electronic ferroelectricity in YbFe2O4 using neutron diffraction and nonlinear spectroscopy
We report the first observation of room temperature spontaneous electric polarization in an electronic ferroelectric material, a YbFe2O4 single crystal. The observation was based on second harmonic generation (SHG), a nonlinear optical process. Tensor analysis of the SHG signal revealed that this material has a polar charge superstructure with Cm symmetry. This result settles the long-term discussion on the uncertainty about electronic ferroelectric properties, including the charge order structure. We present a complete picture of the polar charge ordering of this material via consistent results from two different characterization methods. The SHG signal shows the same temperature dependence as the superlattice signal observed in neutron diffraction experiments. These results prove ferroelectric coupling to electron ordering in YbFe2O4, which results in electronic ferroelectricity which is enabled by the real space ordering of iron cations with different valences. The existence of electronic ferroelectricity holds promise for future electronics technologies where devices run a thousand times faster than frequency of the present CPU (a few gigahertz) embedded in smartphones, etc
100 ps time-resolved solution scattering utilizing a wide-bandwidth X-ray beam from multilayer optics
A new method of time-resolved solution scattering utilizing X-ray multilayer optics is presented
Effect of sodium n-butyrate on induction of prostaglandin synthase activity in cloned mastocytoma P-815 2-E-6 cells
Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in GaMnAs
We have measured the magnetoresistance in a series of GaMnAs
samples with 0.033 0.053 for three mutually orthogonal orientations
of the applied magnetic field. The spontaneous resistivity anisotropy (SRA) in
these materials is negative (i.e. the sample resistance is higher when its
magnetization is perpendicular to the measuring current than when the two are
parallel) and has a magnitude on the order of 5% at temperatures near 10K and
below. This stands in contrast to the results for most conventional magnetic
materials where the SRA is considerably smaller in magnitude for those few
cases in which a negative sign is observed. The magnitude of the SRA drops from
its maximum at low temperatures to zero at T in a manner that is consistent
with mean field theory. These results should provide a significant test for
emerging theories of transport in this new class of materials.Comment: 4 pages with 4 figures. Submitted to Physical Review
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