THz-Frequency Modulation of the Hubbard U in an Organic Mott Insulator

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Beitragende

  • R. Singla - , Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (Autor:in)
  • G. Cotugno - , Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, University of Oxford (Autor:in)
  • S. Kaiser - , Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Universität Stuttgart (Autor:in)
  • M. Först - , Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (Autor:in)
  • M. Mitrano - , Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (Autor:in)
  • H. Y. Liu - , Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (Autor:in)
  • A. Cartella - , Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (Autor:in)
  • C. Manzoni - , Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Polytechnic University of Milan (Autor:in)
  • H. Okamoto - , The University of Tokyo (Autor:in)
  • T. Hasegawa - , National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Autor:in)
  • S. R. Clark - , University of Oxford, University of Bath (Autor:in)
  • D. Jaksch - , University of Oxford, National University of Singapore (Autor:in)
  • A. Cavalleri - , Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, University of Oxford (Autor:in)

Abstract

We use midinfrared pulses with stable carrier-envelope phase offset to drive molecular vibrations in the charge transfer salt ET-F2TCNQ, a prototypical one-dimensional Mott insulator. We find that the Mott gap, which is probed resonantly with 10 fs laser pulses, oscillates with the pump field. This observation reveals that molecular excitations can coherently perturb the electronic on-site interactions (Hubbard U) by changing the local orbital wave function. The gap oscillates at twice the frequency of the vibrational mode, indicating that the molecular distortions couple quadratically to the local charge density.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer187401
FachzeitschriftPhysical review letters
Jahrgang115
Ausgabenummer18
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 29 Okt. 2015
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-9862-2788/work/142255360

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