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Ultrafast switching in an atomic wire system at surfaces

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Ultrafast electron diffraction has been employed for the study of structural dynamics at surfaces in the time domain. Experiments were performed in a pump-probe setup with femtosecond-laser excitation and subsequent probing through diffraction of a femtosecond electron pulse at a temporal resolution of 350 fs. The system of interest is one atomic layer of indium atoms on a Si(111) surface. Through self-assembly, indium atomic wires form and exhibit a Peierls-like, insulator-to-metal phase transition that can be driven nonthermally through a femtosecond laser pulse. The transient intensity of the diffraction spots indicates the lifting of the Peierls transition and melting of a charge-density wave in only 700 fs, heating of the surface in 6 ps, and formation of a metastable and supercooled phase, which exists for nanoseconds.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsge-meinschaft through SFB616 “Energy dissipation at surfaces,” FOR1700 “Metallic nanowires on the atomic scale: Electronic and vibrational coupling in real world systems,” SFB1242 “Non-equilibrium dynamics of condensed matter in the time domain,” FOR1405 “Dynamics of electron transfer processes within transition metal sites in biological and bioinorganic systems,” and the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart and the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing.

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von Hoegen, M.H. Ultrafast switching in an atomic wire system at surfaces. MRS Bulletin 43, 512–519 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2018.150

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