Spatiotemporal determination of photoinduced strain in a Weyl semimetal.

IF 2.3 2区物理与天体物理 Q3 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL

Structural Dynamics-Us Pub Date : 2024-09-30 eCollection Date: 2024-09-01 DOI:10.1063/4.0000263

Jianyu Wu, Amit Kumar Prasad, Alexander Balatsky, Jonas Weissenrieder

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Abstract

The application of dynamic strain holds the potential to manipulate topological invariants in topological quantum materials. This study investigates dynamic structural deformation and strain modulation in the Weyl semimetal WTe₂, focusing on the microscopic regions with static strain defects. The interplay of static strain fields, at local line defects, with dynamic strain induced from photo-excited coherent acoustic phonons results in the formation of local standing waves at the defect sites. The dynamic structural distortion is precisely determined utilizing ultrafast electron microscopy with nanometer spatial and gigahertz temporal resolutions. Numerical simulations are employed to interpret the experimental results and explain the mechanism for how the local strain fields are transiently modulated through light-matter interaction. This research provides the experimental foundation for investigating predicted phenomena such as the mixed axial-torsional anomaly, acoustogalvanic effect, and axial magnetoelectric effects in Weyl semimetals, and paves the road to manipulate quantum invariants through transient strain fields in quantum materials.

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韦尔半金属中光诱导应变的时空测定。

应用动态应变有可能操纵拓扑量子材料中的拓扑不变性。本研究以存在静态应变缺陷的微观区域为重点，研究了韦尔半金属 WTe2 的动态结构变形和应变调制。局部线缺陷处的静态应变场与光激发相干声子诱导的动态应变相互作用，导致在缺陷处形成局部驻波。利用具有纳米空间分辨率和千兆赫兹时间分辨率的超快电子显微镜精确测定了动态结构变形。数值模拟用于解释实验结果，并解释局部应变场如何通过光-物质相互作用进行瞬时调制的机制。这项研究为研究韦尔半金属中的轴扭混合异常、声电效应和轴向磁电效应等预言现象提供了实验基础，并为通过量子材料中的瞬态应变场操纵量子不变式铺平了道路。

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Structural Dynamics-Us CHEMISTRY, PHYSICALPHYSICS, ATOMIC, MOLECU-PHYSICS, ATOMIC, MOLECULAR & CHEMICAL

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5.50

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16 weeks

期刊介绍： Structural Dynamics focuses on the recent developments in experimental and theoretical methods and techniques that allow a visualization of the electronic and geometric structural changes in real time of chemical, biological, and condensed-matter systems. The community of scientists and engineers working on structural dynamics in such diverse systems often use similar instrumentation and methods. The journal welcomes articles dealing with fundamental problems of electronic and structural dynamics that are tackled by new methods, such as: Time-resolved X-ray and electron diffraction and scattering, Coherent diffractive imaging, Time-resolved X-ray spectroscopies (absorption, emission, resonant inelastic scattering, etc.), Time-resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and electron microscopy, Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopies (UPS, XPS, ARPES, etc.), Multidimensional spectroscopies in the infrared, the visible and the ultraviolet, Nonlinear spectroscopies in the VUV, the soft and the hard X-ray domains, Theory and computational methods and algorithms for the analysis and description of structuraldynamics and their associated experimental signals. These new methods are enabled by new instrumentation, such as: X-ray free electron lasers, which provide flux, coherence, and time resolution, New sources of ultrashort electron pulses, New sources of ultrashort vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) to hard X-ray pulses, such as high-harmonic generation (HHG) sources or plasma-based sources, New sources of ultrashort infrared and terahertz (THz) radiation, New detectors for X-rays and electrons, New sample handling and delivery schemes, New computational capabilities.