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2021 (English) In: Physical Review B, ISSN 2469-9950, E-ISSN 2469-9969, Vol. 103, no 24, article id L241108Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en] We apply an intense infrared laser pulse in order to perturb the electronic and vibrational states in the three-dimensional charge density wave material 1T-VSe 2. Ultrafast snapshots of the light-induced hot carrier dynamics and nonequilibrium quasiparticle spectral function are collected using time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. The hot carrier temperature and time-dependent electronic self-energy are extracted from the time-dependent spectral function, revealing that incoherent electron-phonon interactions heat the lattice above the charge density wave critical temperature on a timescale of (200 +/- 40) fs. Density functional perturbation theory calculations establish that the presence of hot carriers alters the overall phonon dispersion and quenches efficient low-energy acoustic phonon scattering channels, which results in a new quasiequilibrium state that is experimentally observed.
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Materials Engineering Physical Sciences
Identifiers urn:nbn:se:su:diva-195838 (URN) 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.L241108 (DOI) 000662305100005 ()
2021-08-312021-08-312022-02-25 Bibliographically approved