Ultrafast Structural Dynamics of Nanoparticles in Intense Laser Fields
Author(s) -
Toshiyuki Nishiyama,
Yoshiaki Kumagai,
Akinobu Niozu,
H. Fukuzawa,
Koji Motomura,
Maximilian Bucher,
Y. Ito,
Tsukasa Takanashi,
Kazuki Asa,
Yuhiro Sato,
Daehyun You,
Yiwen Li,
Taishi Ono,
E. Kukk,
Catalin Miron,
Liviu Neagu,
Carlo Callegari,
Michele Di Fraia,
G. Rossi,
D. E. Galli,
Tommaso Pincelli,
Alessandro Colombo,
Takashi Kameshima,
Yasumasa Joti,
Takaki Hatsui,
Shigeki Owada,
Tetsuo Katayama,
Tadashi Togashi,
Kensuke Tono,
Makina Yabashi,
Kazuhiro Matsuda,
Christoph Bostedt,
Kiyonobu Nagaya,
Kiyoshi Ueda
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
physical review letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.688
H-Index - 673
eISSN - 1079-7114
pISSN - 0031-9007
DOI - 10.1103/physrevlett.123.123201
Subject(s) - femtosecond , ultrashort pulse , laser , materials science , excited state , atomic physics , phase (matter) , scattering , xenon , molecular physics , chemical physics , optics , physics , quantum mechanics
Femtosecond laser pulses have opened new frontiers for the study of ultrafast phase transitions and nonequilibrium states of matter. In this Letter, we report on structural dynamics in atomic clusters pumped with intense near-infrared (NIR) pulses into a nanoplasma state. Employing wide-angle scattering with intense femtosecond x-ray pulses from a free-electron laser source, we find that highly excited xenon nanoparticles retain their crystalline bulk structure and density in the inner core long after the driving NIR pulse. The observed emergence of structural disorder in the nanoplasma is consistent with a propagation from the surface to the inner core of the clusters.
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