Communications Physics (Jun 2022)

Dynamical limits for the molecular switching in a photoexcited material revealed by X-ray diffraction

  • Alix Volte,
  • Celine Mariette,
  • Roman Bertoni,
  • Marco Cammarata,
  • Xu Dong,
  • Elzbieta Trzop,
  • Herve Cailleau,
  • Eric Collet,
  • Matteo Levantino,
  • Michael Wulff,
  • Jacek Kubicki,
  • Feng-Lei Yang,
  • Marie-Laure Boillot,
  • Benoit Corraze,
  • Laurentiu Stoleriu,
  • Cristian Enachescu,
  • Maciej Lorenc

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-00940-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Ultrafast methods have the ability to transiently decouple transitions between subsystems that evolve simultaneously at thermal equilibrium. Here, time-resolved X-ray diffraction reveals a time delay between volumetric and spin-state switching in a spin-crossover compound.