Theory of photoinduced ultrafast switching to a spin-orbital ordered hidden phase

Jiajun Li; Hugo U. R. Strand; Philipp Werner; Martin Eckstein

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07051-x

Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Theory of photoinduced ultrafast switching to a spin-orbital ordered hidden phase

Jiajun Li,
Hugo U. R. Strand,
Philipp Werner,
Martin Eckstein

Affiliations

Jiajun Li: Department of Physics, University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Hugo U. R. Strand: Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute
Philipp Werner: Department of Physics, University of Fribourg
Martin Eckstein: Department of Physics, University Erlangen-Nürnberg

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07051-x
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Ultrafast excitation of materials can cause the formation of hidden phases that are not accessible in thermal equilibrium. Li et al. identify and investigate theoretically a hidden phase that can be accessed in systems with intertwined spin and orbital-ordering such as KCuF3.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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