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Evolution of the magnetic and polaronic order of Pr1/2Ca1/2MnO3 following an ultrashort light pulse

Sangeeta Rajpurohit1, Christian Jooss2, and Peter E. Blöchl1,3,*

  • 1Institute for Theoretical Physics, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
  • 2Institute for Material Physics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
  • 3Institute for Theoretical Physics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

  • *peter.bloechl@tu-clausthal.de.
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Phys. Rev. B 102, 014302 – Published 2 July, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.014302

Abstract

The dynamics of electrons, spins, and phonons induced by optical femtosecond pulses has been simulated for the polaronic crystal Pr1/2Ca1/2MnO3. The model used for the simulation has been derived from first-principles calculations. The simulations reproduce the experimentally observed melting of charge and orbital order with increasing fluence. The loss of charge order in the high-fluence regime induces a transition to a ferromagnetic metal. At low fluence, the dynamics is deterministic and coherent phonons are created by the repopulation of electronic orbitals, which are strongly coupled to the phonon degrees of freedom. In contrast to the low-fluence regime, the magnetic transitions occurring at higher fluence can be attributed to a quasithermal transition of a cold-plasma-like state with hot electrons and cold phonons and spins. The findings can be rationalized in a more complete picture of the electronic structure that goes beyond the simple ionic picture of charge order.

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Phys. Rev. B 102, 014302– Published 2 July, 2020
  • Received 22 October 2019
  • Revised 9 March 2020
  • Accepted 28 April 2020
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