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| Main Authors: | , , , , , |
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| Format: | Preprint |
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2003
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312464 |
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- We have observed reversible structural transformations, induced by optical excitation at 1.55 micrometer, between the beta, gamma and liquid phases of gallium in self-assembled gallium nanoparticles, with a narrow size distribution around 50 nm, on the tip of an optical fiber. Only a few tens of nanowatts of optical excitation per particle are required to control the transformations, which take the form of a dynamic phase coexistence and are accompanied by substantial changes in the optical properties of the nanoparticle film. The time needed to achieve phase equilibrium is in the microsecond range, and increases critically at the transition temperature.