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Beyond the molecular movie: Dynamics of bands and bonds during a photoinduced phase transition

  • Nicholson, Christopher W. Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany.
  • Lücke, A. Department of Physics, University of Paderborn, Germany.
  • Schmidt, W. G. Department of Physics, University of Paderborn, Germany.
  • Puppin, M. Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany.
  • Rettig, L. Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany.
  • Ernstorfer, R. Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany.
  • Wolf, M. Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany.
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    16.11.2018
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  • Science. - 2018, vol. 362, no. 6416, p. 821–825
English Ultrafast nonequilibrium dynamics offer a route to study the microscopic interactions that govern macroscopic behavior. In particular, photoinduced phase transitions (PIPTs) in solids provide a test case for how forces, and the resulting atomic motion along a reaction coordinate, originate from a nonequilibrium population of excited electronic states. Using femtosecond photoemission, we obtain access to the transient electronic structure during an ultrafast PIPT in a model system: indium nanowires on a silicon(111) surface. We uncover a detailed reaction pathway, allowing a direct comparison with the dynamics predicted by ab initio simulations. This further reveals the crucial role played by localized photoholes in shaping the potential energy landscape and enables a combined momentum- and real-space description of PIPTs, including the ultrafast formation of chemical bonds.
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Faculté des sciences et de médecine
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Département de Physique
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Physics
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