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Spatiotemporal determination of photoinduced strain in a Weyl semimetal
Stockholm University, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita). KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; University of Connecticut, USA.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6510-8870
Number of Authors: 42024 (English)In: Structural Dynamics, E-ISSN 2329-7778, Vol. 11, no 5, article id 054301Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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The application of dynamic strain holds the potential to manipulate topological invariants in topological quantum materials. This study investigates dynamic structural deformation and strain modulation in the Weyl semimetal WTe2, focusing on the microscopic regions with static strain defects. The interplay of static strain fields, at local line defects, with dynamic strain induced from photo-excited coherent acoustic phonons results in the formation of local standing waves at the defect sites. The dynamic structural distortion is precisely determined utilizing ultrafast electron microscopy with nanometer spatial and gigahertz temporal resolutions. Numerical simulations are employed to interpret the experimental results and explain the mechanism for how the local strain fields are transiently modulated through light–matter interaction. This research provides the experimental foundation for investigating predicted phenomena such as the mixed axial-torsional anomaly, acoustogalvanic effect, and axial magnetoelectric effects in Weyl semimetals, and paves the road to manipulate quantum invariants through transient strain fields in quantum materials.

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2024. Vol. 11, no 5, article id 054301
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-248800DOI: 10.1063/4.0000263ISI: 001330322600001PubMedID: 39386199Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85205870413OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-248800DiVA, id: diva2:2010518
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