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Overcoming the thermal regime for the electric-field driven Mott transition in vanadium sesquioxide

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  • Flavio Giorgianni

    (Paul Scherrer Institute)

  • Joe Sakai

    (UMR 7347 CNRS and Université François Rabelais de Tours)

  • Stefano Lupi

    (University of Rome La Sapienza)

Abstract

The complex interplay among electronic, magnetic and lattice degrees of freedom in Mott-Hubbard materials leads to different types of insulator-to-metal transitions (IMT) which can be triggered by temperature, pressure, light irradiation and electric field. However, several questions remain open concerning the quantum or thermal nature of electric field-driven transition process. Here, using intense terahertz pulses, we reveal the emergence of an instantaneous purely-electronic IMT in the Mott-Hubbard vanadium sequioxide (V2O3) prototype material. While fast electronics allow thermal-driven transition involving Joule heating, which takes place after tens of picoseconds, terahertz electric field is able to induce a sub-picosecond electronic switching. We provide a comprehensive study of the THz induced Mott transition, showing a crossover from a fast quantum dynamics to a slower thermal dissipative evolution for increasing temperature. Strong-field terahertz-driven electronic transition paves the way to ultrafast electronic switches and high-harmonic generation in correlated systems.

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  • Flavio Giorgianni & Joe Sakai & Stefano Lupi, 2019. "Overcoming the thermal regime for the electric-field driven Mott transition in vanadium sesquioxide," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 10(1), pages 1-6, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:10:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-019-09137-6
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09137-6
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