Ultrafast critical dynamics of a ferroelectric phase transition in Pb1-xGexTe

作者:Lu, Rong*; Hase, Muneaki; Kitajima, Masahiro; Nakashima, Shinichi; Sugai, Shunji
来源:Physical Review B, 2007, 75(1): 012107.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.75.012107

摘要

Transient responses of the electronic excitation and coherent soft phonon are investigated both above and below the ferroelectric phase transition temperature T-c in Pb1-xGexTe by using an optical pump-probe technique. The coherent soft mode shows large redshift and heavily overdamped decay as the temperature approaching T-c from the low temperature side, and the soft mode disappears above T-c. The transient electronic response exhibits an abrupt change across T-c. The critical behaviors of both the phononic and electronic dynamics are interpreted by the ferroelectric phase transition.