Triggered phase transition (IMAGE)

Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI)

Triggered phase transition

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Metal-Insulator phase transition triggered in strongly correlated system by a few-femtosecond pulse (orange curve) and resulting in a dramatic change of density of states, occurs within less than 1 femtosecond.

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MBI: Olga Smirnova / Universität Hamburg: Alexander Lichtenstein

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