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Main Authors: Swain, Atal Bihari, Kale, Somnath, Soni, Rohit, Baum, Peter
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25521
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  • Ferroelectric materials with built-in electric fields are useful for ultrafast electronics and solar cells. Using ultrafast electron diffraction, we here report that ferroelectric BaTiO$_3$ reacts to light with a polarization-sensitive electron-phonon coupling. Excited electrons relax faster into phonons and temperature when the optical electric field aligns to the ferroelectric polarization. Also, ultrafast electron electrometry visualizes the motion of photo-excited electron-hole pairs in presence of the ferroelectric field.