Tracing the dynamics of superconducting order via transient terahertz third-harmonic generation
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Abstract
Ultrafast optical control of quantum systems is an emerging field of physics. In particular, the possibility of light-driven superconductivity has attracted much of attention. To identify nonequilibrium superconductivity, it is necessary to measure fingerprints of superconductivity on ultrafast timescales. Recently, nonlinear THz third-harmonic generation (THG) was shown to directly probe the collective degrees of freedoms of the superconducting condensate, including the Higgs mode. Here, we extend this idea to light-driven nonequilibrium states in superconducting La2-xSrxCuO4, establishing an optical pump–THz–THG drive protocol to access the transient superconducting order-parameter quench and recovering on few-picosecond timescales. We show in particular the ability of two-dimensional TH spectroscopy to disentangle the effects of optically excited quasiparticles from the pure order-parameter dynamics, which are unavoidably mixed in the pump-driven linear THz response. Benchmarking the gap dynamics to existing experiments shows the ability of driven THG spectroscopy to overcome these limitations in ordinary pump-probe protocols.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | eadi7598 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Science advances |
| Volume | 10(2024) |
| Issue number | 11 |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Mar 2024 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| PubMed | 38489363 |
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| ORCID | /0000-0001-9862-2788/work/157319409 |