Nonequilibrium dynamics of collective excitations in quantum materials /

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Author / Creator:	Baldini, Edoardo, author.
Imprint:	Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2018.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Springer theses Springer theses.
Subject:	Condensed matter. Quantum theory. Many-body problem. Condensed matter. Many-body problem. Quantum theory.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11544202

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ISBN:	9783319774985 3319774980 9783319774978 3319774972
Digital file characteristics:	PDF text file
Notes:	"Doctoral thesis accepted by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland." Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 3, 2018).
Summary:	This book studies the dynamics of fundamental collective excitations in quantum materials, focusing on the use of state-of-the-art ultrafast broadband optical spectroscopy. Collective behaviour in solids lies at the origin of several cooperative phenomena that can lead to profound transformations, instabilities and phase transitions. Revealing the dynamics of collective excitations is a topic of pivotal importance in contemporary condensed matter physics, as it provides information on the strength and spatial distribution of interactions and correlation. The experimental framework explored in this book relies on setting a material out-of-equilibrium by an ultrashort laser pulse and monitoring the photo-induced changes in its optical properties over a broad spectral region in the visible or deep-ultraviolet. Collective excitations (e.g. plasmons, excitons, phonons ...) emerge either in the frequency domain as spectral features across the probed range, or in the time domain as coherent modes triggered by the pump pulse. Mapping the temporal evolution of these collective excitations provides access to the hierarchy of low-energy phenomena occurring in the solid during its path towards thermodynamic equilibrium. This methodology is used to investigate a number of strongly interacting and correlated materials with an increasing degree of internal complexity beyond conventional band theory.
Other form:	Print version: Baldini, Edoardo. Nonequilibrium dynamics of collective excitations in quantum materials. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2018 3319774972 9783319774978
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-319-77498-5

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Strong Interactions and Correlations
Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Spectroscopy of Condensed Matter
Clocking the Interband Scattering in Strongly Interacting Multiband Metals
Revealing Bound Exciton Physics in Strongly Interacting Band Insulators
Probing the Electron-Phonon Interaction in Correlated Electron Systems
Disentangling the Signatures of Precursor Superconductivity in Cuprates
Phonon-Mediated Magnetic Order Melting in Multiferroic Mott Insulators
Conclusions and Future Directions.

Nonequilibrium dynamics of collective excitations in quantum materials /

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