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author Stoica, Vladimir A.
Yang, Tiannan
Das, Sujit
Cao, Yue
Wang, Huaiyu
Kubota, Yuya
Dai, Cheng
Padmanabhan, Hari
Sato, Yusuke
Mangu, Anudeep
Nguyen, Quynh L.
Zhang, Zhan
Talreja, Disha
Zajac, Marc E.
Walko, Donald A.
DiChiara, Anthony D.
Owada, Shigeki
Miyanishi, Kohei
Tamasaku, Kenji
Sato, Takahiro
Glownia, James M.
Esposito, Vincent
Nelson, Silke
Hoffmann, Matthias C.
Schaller, Richard D.
Lindenberg, Aaron M.
Martin, Lane W.
Ramesh, Ramamoorthy
Matsuda, Iwao
Zhu, Diling
Chen, Long-Q.
Wen, Haidan
Gopalan, Venkatraman
Freeland, John W.
author_facet Stoica, Vladimir A.
Yang, Tiannan
Das, Sujit
Cao, Yue
Wang, Huaiyu
Kubota, Yuya
Dai, Cheng
Padmanabhan, Hari
Sato, Yusuke
Mangu, Anudeep
Nguyen, Quynh L.
Zhang, Zhan
Talreja, Disha
Zajac, Marc E.
Walko, Donald A.
DiChiara, Anthony D.
Owada, Shigeki
Miyanishi, Kohei
Tamasaku, Kenji
Sato, Takahiro
Glownia, James M.
Esposito, Vincent
Nelson, Silke
Hoffmann, Matthias C.
Schaller, Richard D.
Lindenberg, Aaron M.
Martin, Lane W.
Ramesh, Ramamoorthy
Matsuda, Iwao
Zhu, Diling
Chen, Long-Q.
Wen, Haidan
Gopalan, Venkatraman
Freeland, John W.
contents Ultrafast stimuli can stabilize metastable states of matter inaccessible by equilibrium means. Establishing the spatiotemporal link between ultrafast excitation and metastability is crucial to understanding these phenomena. Here, we use single-shot optical-pump, X-ray-probe measurements to provide snapshots of the emergence of a persistent polar vortex supercrystal in a heterostructure that hosts a fine balance between built-in electrostatic and elastic frustrations by design. By perturbing this balance with photoinduced charges, a starting heterogenous mixture of polar phases disorders within a few picoseconds, resulting in a soup state composed of disordered ferroelectric and suppressed vortex orders. On the pico-to-nanosecond timescales, transient labyrinthine fluctuations form in this soup along with a recovering vortex order. On longer timescales, these fluctuations are progressively quenched by dynamical strain modulations, which drive the collective emergence of a single supercrystal phase. Our results, corroborated by dynamical phase-field modeling, reveal how ultrafast excitation of designer systems generates pathways for persistent metastability.
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spellingShingle Non-equilibrium pathways to emergent polar supertextures
Stoica, Vladimir A.
Yang, Tiannan
Das, Sujit
Cao, Yue
Wang, Huaiyu
Kubota, Yuya
Dai, Cheng
Padmanabhan, Hari
Sato, Yusuke
Mangu, Anudeep
Nguyen, Quynh L.
Zhang, Zhan
Talreja, Disha
Zajac, Marc E.
Walko, Donald A.
DiChiara, Anthony D.
Owada, Shigeki
Miyanishi, Kohei
Tamasaku, Kenji
Sato, Takahiro
Glownia, James M.
Esposito, Vincent
Nelson, Silke
Hoffmann, Matthias C.
Schaller, Richard D.
Lindenberg, Aaron M.
Martin, Lane W.
Ramesh, Ramamoorthy
Matsuda, Iwao
Zhu, Diling
Chen, Long-Q.
Wen, Haidan
Gopalan, Venkatraman
Freeland, John W.
Materials Science
Ultrafast stimuli can stabilize metastable states of matter inaccessible by equilibrium means. Establishing the spatiotemporal link between ultrafast excitation and metastability is crucial to understanding these phenomena. Here, we use single-shot optical-pump, X-ray-probe measurements to provide snapshots of the emergence of a persistent polar vortex supercrystal in a heterostructure that hosts a fine balance between built-in electrostatic and elastic frustrations by design. By perturbing this balance with photoinduced charges, a starting heterogenous mixture of polar phases disorders within a few picoseconds, resulting in a soup state composed of disordered ferroelectric and suppressed vortex orders. On the pico-to-nanosecond timescales, transient labyrinthine fluctuations form in this soup along with a recovering vortex order. On longer timescales, these fluctuations are progressively quenched by dynamical strain modulations, which drive the collective emergence of a single supercrystal phase. Our results, corroborated by dynamical phase-field modeling, reveal how ultrafast excitation of designer systems generates pathways for persistent metastability.
title Non-equilibrium pathways to emergent polar supertextures
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11634