The influence of charge and magnetic order on polaron and acoustic phonon dynamics in LuFe2O4
Author(s) -
J. Lee,
S. A. Trugman,
C. L. Zhang,
Diyar Talbayev,
Xiaoshan Xu,
SangWook Cheong,
Dmitry Yarotski,
Antoinette J. Taylor,
Rohit P. Prasankumar
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
applied physics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 442
eISSN - 1077-3118
pISSN - 0003-6951
DOI - 10.1063/1.4927739
Subject(s) - polaron , phonon , condensed matter physics , femtosecond , electron , materials science , charge (physics) , ferrimagnetism , physics , magnetic field , laser , optics , magnetization , quantum mechanics
Femtosecond optical pump-probe spectroscopy is used to reveal the influence of charge and magnetic order on polaron dynamics and coherent acoustic phonon oscillations in single crystals of charge-ordered, ferrimagnetic LuFe2O4. We experimentally observed the influence of magnetic order on polaron dynamics. We also observed a correlation between charge order and the amplitude of the acoustic phonon oscillations, due to photoinduced changes in the lattice constant that originate from the photoexcited electrons. This provides insight into the general behavior of coherent acoustic phonon oscillations in charge-ordered materials.
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