Ultrafast dynamics of vibrational symmetry breaking in a charge-ordered nickelate

Giacomo Coslovich; Alexander F. Kemper; Sascha Behl; Bernhard Huber; Hans A. Bechtel; Takao Sasagawa; Michael C. Martin; Alessandra Lanzara; Robert A. Kaindl

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Ultrafast dynamics of vibrational symmetry breaking in a charge-ordered nickelate

Giacomo Coslovich¹,²,*,
Alexander F. Kemper³,⁴,
Sascha Behl¹,
Bernhard Huber¹,
Hans A. Bechtel⁵,
Takao Sasagawa⁶,
Michael C. Martin⁵,
Alessandra Lanzara¹,⁷ and
Robert A. Kaindl¹,*

¹Materials Sciences Division, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
²SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.
³Computational Research Division, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
⁴Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.
⁵Advanced Light Source, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
⁶Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan.
⁷Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

↵*Corresponding author. Email: gcoslovich{at}lbl.gov (G.C.); rakaindl{at}lbl.gov (R.A.K.)

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Science Advances 24 Nov 2017:
Vol. 3, no. 11, e1600735
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1600735

Giacomo Coslovich

Materials Sciences Division, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.

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Alexander F. Kemper

Computational Research Division, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.

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Sascha Behl

Materials Sciences Division, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

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Bernhard Huber

Materials Sciences Division, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

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Hans A. Bechtel

Advanced Light Source, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

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Takao Sasagawa

Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan.

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Michael C. Martin

Advanced Light Source, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

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Alessandra Lanzara

Materials Sciences Division, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

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Robert A. Kaindl

Materials Sciences Division, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

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