Ultrafast electron calorimetry uncovers a new long-lived metastable state in 1 T -TaSe 2 mediated by mode-selective electron-phonon coupling

• DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav4449
• Publication Date: 2019-03-02T00:25:43Z
• Authors: Xun Shi; Wenjing You; Yingchao Zhang; Zhensheng Tao; Peter M. Oppeneer; Xianxin Wu; Ronny Thomale; Kai Rossnagel; Michael Bauer; Henry Kapteyn; Margaret Murnane
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; Condensed Matter - Materials Science; Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons; 03 medical and health sciences; Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); FOS: Physical sciences; Condensed Matter Physics; Den kondenserade materiens fysik; 7. Clean energy; Research Articles

Ultrafast laser pulses uncover a new metastable state in 1 T -TaSe 2 by exciting electrons and then tracking their temperature.