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Ultrafast Relaxation Dynamics of the Antiferrodistortive Phase in Ca Doped SrTiO3

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Fechner,  M.
Quantum Condensed Matter Dynamics, Condensed Matter Dynamics Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society;
Materials Theory, ETH Zürich;

Rettig,  L.
Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute;
Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society;

Paarmann,  A.
Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society;

Noack,  J.
Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society;

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https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00580
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https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.055701
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Porer, M., Fechner, M., Bothschafter, E., Rettig, L., Savoini, M., Esposito, V., et al. (2018). Ultrafast Relaxation Dynamics of the Antiferrodistortive Phase in Ca Doped SrTiO3. Physical Review Letters, 121(5): 055701. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.055701.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0001-EE2D-2
Abstract
The ultrafast dynamics of the octahedral rotation in Ca:SrTiO3 is studied by time-resolved x-ray diffraction after photoexcitation over the band gap. By monitoring the diffraction intensity of a superlattice reflection that is directly related to the structural order parameter of the soft-mode driven antiferrodistortive phase in Ca:SrTiO3, we observe an ultrafast relaxation on a 0.2 ps timescale of the rotation of the oxygen octahedron, which is found to be independent of the initial temperature despite large changes in the corresponding soft-mode frequency. A further, much smaller reduction on a slower picosecond timescale is attributed to thermal effects. Time-dependent density-functional-theory calculations show that the fast response can be ascribed to an ultrafast displacive modification of the soft-mode potential towards the normal state induced by holes created in the oxygen 2p states.