- Physical Review Journals
All JournalsPhysics Magazine

Physical Review Research

Reuse & Permissions

It is not necessary to obtain permission to reuse this article or its components as it is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI are maintained. Please note that some figures may have been included with permission from other third parties. It is your responsibility to obtain the proper permission from the rights holder directly for these figures.

Export citation

Export citation

Choose format for download:

Download Citation
  • Open Access

Ultrafast all-optical manipulation of the charge-density wave in VTe2

Manuel Tuniz1, Davide Soranzio2, Davide Bidoggia1, Denny Puntel1, Wibke Bronsch3, Steven L. Johnson2, Maria Peressi1,4, Fulvio Parmigiani1,5,3, and Federico Cilento3,*

  • 1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Trieste, 34127 Trieste, Italy
  • 2Institute for Quantum Electronics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
  • 3Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Strada Statale 14, km 163.5, 34149 Trieste, Italy
  • 4ICSC - Italian Research Center on High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, 40121 Bologna, Italy
  • 5International Faculty, University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Cologne, Germany

  • *federico.cilento@elettra.eu
PDF

Phys. Rev. Research 5, 043276 – Published 21 December, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043276

Abstract

The charge-density-wave (CDW) phase in the layered transition-metal dichalcogenide VTe2 is strongly coupled to the band inversion involving vanadium and tellurium orbitals. In particular, this coupling leads to a selective disappearance of the Dirac-type states that characterize the normal phase, when the CDW phase sets in. Here, we investigate the broadband time-resolved reflectivity variations caused by collective and single-particle excitations in the CDW ground state of VTe2. With the aid of density functional perturbation theory simulations we unveil the presence of two collective amplitude modes of the CDW ground state. By applying a double-pulse excitation scheme, we show the possibility to manipulate these modes, gaining insights into the coupling between these two collective excitations and demonstrating a more efficient way to perturb the CDW phase in VTe2.

View figure in article

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Article Text

Supplemental Material

References (46)

  1. Y. Tokura, M. Kawasaki, and N. Nagaosa, Emergent functions of quantum materials, Nat. Phys. 13, 1056 (2017).
  2. D. N. Basov, R. D. Averitt, and D. Hsieh, Towards properties on demand in quantum materials, Nat. Mater. 16, 1077 (2017).
  3. M. Eichberger, H. Schäfer, M. Krumova, M. Beyer, J. Demsar, H. Berger, G. Moriena, G. Sciaini, and R. J. D. Miller, Snapshots of cooperative atomic motions in the optical suppression of charge density waves, Nature (London) 468, 799 (2010).
  4. G. Grüner, Density Waves in Solids (Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1994).
  5. S. Duan, Y. Cheng, W. Xia, Y. Yang, C. Xu, F. Qi, C. Huang, T. Tang, Y. Guo, W. Luo, D. Qian, D. Xiang, J. Zhang, and W. Zhang, Optical manipulation of electronic dimensionality in a quantum material, Nature (London) 595, 239 (2021).
  6. L. Stojchevska, I. Vaskivskyi, T. Mertelj, P. Kusar, D. Svetin, S. Brazovskii, and D. Mihailovic, Ultrafast switching to a stable hidden quantum state in an electronic crystal, Science 344, 177 (2014).
  7. A. Zong, X. Shen, A. Kogar, L. Ye, C. Marks, D. Chowdhury, T. Rohwer, B. Freelon, S. Weathersby, R. Li, J. Yang, J. Checkelsky, X. Wang, and N. Gedik, Ultrafast manipulation of mirror domain walls in a charge density wave, Sci. Adv. 4, eaau5501 (2018).
  8. J. Maklar, Y. W. Windsor, C. W. Nicholson, M. Puppin, P. Walmsley, V. Esposito, M. Porer, J. Rittmann, D. Leuenberger, M. Kubli, M. Savoini, E. Abreu, S. L. Johnson, P. Beaud, G. Ingold, U. Staub, I. R. Fisher, R. Ernstorfer, M. Wolf, and L. Rettig, Nonequilibrium charge-density-wave order beyond the thermal limit, Nat. Commun. 12, 2499 (2021).
  9. G. Storeck, J. G. Horstmann, T. Diekmann, S. Vogelgesang, G. von Witte, S. V. Yalunin, K. Rossnagel, and C. Ropers, Structural dynamics of incommensurate charge-density waves tracked by ultrafast low-energy electron diffraction, Struct. Dyn. 7, 034304 (2020).
  10. T. Huber, S. O. Mariager, A. Ferrer, H. Schäfer, J. A. Johnson, S. Grübel, A. Lübcke, L. Huber, T. Kubacka, C. Dornes, C. Laulhe, S. Ravy, G. Ingold, P. Beaud, J. Demsar, and S. L. Johnson, Coherent structural dynamics of a prototypical charge-density-wave-to-metal transition, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 026401 (2014).
  11. M. Porer, U. Leierseder, J.-M. Ménard, H. Dachraoui, L. Mouchliadis, I. E. Perakis, U. Heinzmann, J. Demsar, K. Rossnagel, and R. Huber, Non-thermal separation of electronic and structural orders in a persisting charge density wave, Nat. Mater. 13, 857 (2014).
  12. N. Mitsuishi, Y. Sugita, M. S. Bahramy, M. Kamitani, T. Sonobe, M. Sakano, T. Shimojima, H. Takahashi, H. Sakai, K. Horiba, H. Kumigashira, K. Taguchi, K. Miyamoto, T. Okuda, S. Ishiwata, Y. Motome, and K. Ishizaka, Switching of band inversion and topological surface states by charge density wave, Nat. Commun. 11, 2466 (2020).
  13. K. Bronsema, G. Bus, and G. Wiegers, The crystal structure of vanadium ditelluride, V1+xTe2, J. Solid State Chem. 53, 415 (1984).
  14. T. Ohtani, K. Hayashi, M. Nakahira, and H. Nozaki, Phase transition in V1+xTe2 (0.04⩽x⩽0.11), Solid State Commun. 40, 629 (1981).
  15. H. Tanimura, N. L. Okamoto, T. Homma, Y. Sato, A. Ishii, H. Takamura, and T. Ichitsubo, Nonthermal melting of charge density wave order via nucleation in VTe2, Phys. Rev. B 105, 245402 (2022).
  16. A. Nakamura, T. Shimojima, M. Matsuura, Y. Chiashi, M. Kamitani, H. Sakai, S. Ishiwata, H. Li, A. Oshiyama, and K. Ishizaka, Evaluation of photo-induced shear strain in monoclinic VTe2 by ultrafast electron diffraction, Appl. Phys. Express 11, 092601 (2018).
  17. A. Nakamura, T. Shimojima, Y. Chiashi, M. Kamitani, H. Sakai, S. Ishiwata, H. Li, and K. Ishizaka, Nanoscale imaging of unusual photoacoustic waves in thin flake VTe2, Nano Lett. 20, 4932 (2020).
  18. T. Suzuki, Y. Kubota, N. Mitsuishi, S. Akatsuka, J. Koga, M. Sakano, S. Masubuchi, Y. Tanaka, T. Togashi, H. Ohsumi, K. Tamasaku, M. Yabashi, H. Takahashi, S. Ishiwata, T. Machida, I. Matsuda, K. Ishizaka, and K. Okazaki, Ultrafast control of the crystal structure in a topological charge-density-wave material, Phys. Rev. B 108, 184305 (2023).
  19. P. Giannozzi, S. Baroni, N. Bonini, M. Calandra, R. Car, C. Cavazzoni, D. Ceresoli, G. L. Chiarotti, M. Cococcioni, I. Dabo, A. Dal Corso, S. de Gironcoli, S. Fabris, G. Fratesi, R. Gebauer, U. Gerstmann, C. Gougoussis, A. Kokalj, M. Lazzeri, L. Martin-Samos et al., QUANTUM ESPRESSO: A modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21, 395502 (2009).
  20. P. Giannozzi, O. Andreussi, T. Brumme, O. Bunau, M. B. Nardelli, M. Calandra, R. Car, C. Cavazzoni, D. Ceresoli, M. Cococcioni, N. Colonna, I. Carnimeo, A. D. Corso, S. de Gironcoli, P. Delugas, R. A. DiStasio Jr, A. Ferretti, A. Floris, G. Fratesi, G. Fugallo et al., Advanced capabilities for materials modelling with QUANTUM ESPRESSO, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 29, 465901 (2017).
  21. P. Giannozzi, O. Baseggio, P. Bonfà, D. Brunato, R. Car, I. Carnimeo, C. Cavazzoni, S. de Gironcoli, P. Delugas, F. F. Ruffino, A. Ferretti, N. Marzari, I. Timrov, A. Urru, and S. Baroni, QUANTUM ESPRESSO toward the exascale, J. Chem. Phys. 152, 154105 (2020).
  22. D. R. Hamann, Optimized norm-conserving Vanderbilt pseudopotentials, Phys. Rev. B 88, 085117 (2013).
  23. J. P. Perdew, J. A. Chevary, S. H. Vosko, K. A. Jackson, M. R. Pederson, D. J. Singh, and C. Fiolhais, Atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces: Applications of the generalized gradient approximation for exchange and correlation, Phys. Rev. B 46, 6671 (1992).
  24. See Supplemental Material at http://link.aps.org/supplemental/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043276 for complementary data and detailed information on the fitting procedure.
  25. S. Grimme, Density functional theory with London dispersion corrections, WIREs Comput. Mol. Sci. 1, 211 (2011).
  26. S. Baroni, S. de Gironcoli, A. Dal Corso, and P. Giannozzi, Phonons and related crystal properties from density-functional perturbation theory, Rev. Mod. Phys. 73, 515 (2001).
  27. T. Takeda, The scalar relativistic approximation, Z. Phys. B 32, 43 (1978).
  28. H. Schaefer, M. Koerber, A. Tomeljak, K. Biljaković, H. Berger, and J. Demsar, Dynamics of charge density wave order in the quasi one dimensional conductor (TaSe4)2I probed by femtosecond optical spectroscopy, Eur. Phys. J.: Spec. Top. 222, 1005 (2013).
  29. H. Schäfer, V. V. Kabanov, M. Beyer, K. Biljakovic, and J. Demsar, Disentanglement of the electronic and lattice parts of the order parameter in a 1D charge density wave system probed by femtosecond spectroscopy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 066402 (2010).
  30. J. Demsar, K. Biljaković, and D. Mihailovic, Single particle and collective excitations in the one-dimensional charge density wave solid K0.3MoO3 probed in real time by femtosecond spectroscopy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 800 (1999).
  31. N. Yoshikawa, H. Suganuma, H. Matsuoka, Y. Tanaka, P. Hemme, M. Cazayous, Y. Gallais, M. Nakano, Y. Iwasa, and R. Shimano, Ultrafast switching to an insulating-like metastable state by amplitudon excitation of a charge density wave, Nat. Phys. 17, 909 (2021).
  32. R. Y. Chen, S. J. Zhang, M. Y. Zhang, T. Dong, and N. L. Wang, Revealing extremely low energy amplitude modes in the charge-density-wave compound LaAgSb2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107402 (2017).
  33. R. V. Yusupov, T. Mertelj, J.-H. Chu, I. R. Fisher, and D. Mihailovic, Single-particle and collective mode couplings associated with 1- and 2-directional electronic ordering in metallic RTe3 (R=Ho,Dy,Tb), Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 246402 (2008).
  34. C. N. Kuo, D. Shen, B. S. Li, N. N. Quyen, W. Y. Tzeng, C. W. Luo, L. M. Wang, Y. K. Kuo, and C. S. Lue, Characterization of the charge density wave transition and observation of the amplitude mode in LaAuSb2, Phys. Rev. B 99, 235121 (2019).
  35. A. Tomeljak, H. Schäfer, D. Städter, M. Beyer, K. Biljakovic, and J. Demsar, Dynamics of photoinduced charge-density-wave to metal phase transition in K0.3MoO3, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066404 (2009).
  36. S. Hellmann, T. Rohwer, M. Kalläne, K. Hanff, C. Sohrt, A. Stange, A. Carr, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, L. Kipp, M. Bauer, and K. Rossnagel, Time-domain classification of charge-density-wave insulators, Nat. Commun. 3, 1069 (2012).
  37. C. Sohrt, A. Stange, M. Bauer, and K. Rossnagel, How fast can a Peierls-Mott insulator be melted?, Faraday Discuss. 171, 243 (2014).
  38. H. Schaefer, V. V. Kabanov, and J. Demsar, Collective modes in quasi-one-dimensional charge-density wave systems probed by femtosecond time-resolved optical studies, Phys. Rev. B 89, 045106 (2014).
  39. D. Mihailovic, D. Dvorsek, V. V. Kabanov, J. Demsar, L. Forró, and H. Berger, Femtosecond data storage, processing, and search using collective excitations of a macroscopic quantum state, Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 871 (2002).
  40. O. Y. Gorobtsov, L. Ponet, S. K. K. Patel, N. Hua, A. G. Shabalin, S. Hrkac, J. Wingert, D. Cela, J. M. Glownia, D. Zhu, R. Medapalli, M. Chollet, E. E. Fullerton, S. Artyukhin, O. G. Shpyrko, and A. Singer, Femtosecond control of phonon dynamics near a magnetic order critical point, Nat. Commun. 12, 2865 (2021).
  41. M. J. Neugebauer, T. Huber, M. Savoini, E. Abreu, V. Esposito, M. Kubli, L. Rettig, E. Bothschafter, S. Grübel, T. Kubacka, J. Rittmann, G. Ingold, P. Beaud, D. Dominko, J. Demsar, and S. L. Johnson, Optical control of vibrational coherence triggered by an ultrafast phase transition, Phys. Rev. B 99, 220302(R) (2019).
  42. S. Michael and H. C. Schneider, Optical amplification in a charge density wave phase of a quasi-two-dimensional material, Phys. Rev. B 105, 235108 (2022).
  43. K. G. Nakamura, K. Yokota, Y. Okuda, R. Kase, T. Kitashima, Y. Mishima, Y. Shikano, and Y. Kayanuma, Ultrafast quantum-path interferometry revealing the generation process of coherent phonons, Phys. Rev. B 99, 180301(R) (2019).
  44. A. Bartels, T. Dekorsy, H. Kurz, and K. Köhler, Coherent control of acoustic phonons in semiconductor superlattices, Appl. Phys. Lett. 72, 2844 (1998).
  45. L. Rettig, J.-H. Chu, I. R. Fisher, U. Bovensiepen, and M. Wolf, Coherent dynamics of the charge density wave gap in tritellurides, Faraday Discuss. 171, 299 (2014).
  46. H. Sasaki, R. Tanaka, Y. Okano, F. Minami, Y. Kayanuma, Y. Shikano, and K. G. Nakamura, Coherent control theory and experiment of optical phonons in diamond, Sci. Rep. 8, 9609 (2018).

Outline

Information

Phys. Rev. Research 5, 043276– Published 21 December, 2023
  • Received 18 May 2023
  • Revised 17 October 2023
  • Accepted 1 December 2023
Crossmark - Check for updates button
Creative Commons Logo

Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.

Published by the American Physical Society

Sign In to Your Journals Account

Filter

Filter

Article Lookup

Enter a citation