Ultrafast X-Ray Scattering Reveals Composite Amplitude Collective Mode in the Weyl Charge Density Wave Material (TaSe4)2 i

Quynh L. Nguyen, Ryan A. Duncan, Gal Orenstein, Yijing Huang, Viktor Krapivin, Gilberto De La Peña, Chance Ornelas-Skarin, David A. Reis, Peter Abbamonte, Simon Bettler, Matthieu Chollet, Matthias C. Hoffmann, Matthew Hurley, Soyeun Kim, Patrick S. Kirchmann, Yuya Kubota, Fahad Mahmood, Alexander Miller, Taito Osaka, Kejian QuTakahiro Sato, Daniel P. Shoemaker, Nicholas Sirica, Sanghoon Song, Jade Stanton, Samuel W. Teitelbaum, Sean E. Tilton, Tadashi Togashi, Diling Zhu, Mariano Trigo

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Abstract

We report ultrafast x-ray scattering experiments of the quasi-1D charge density wave (CDW) material (TaSe4)2I following ultrafast infrared photoexcitation. From the time-dependent diffraction signal at the CDW sidebands we identify a 0.11 THz amplitude mode derived primarily from a transverse acoustic mode of the high-symmetry structure. From our measurements we determine that this mode interacts with the valence charge indirectly through another collective mode, and that the CDW system in (TaSe4)2I has a composite nature supporting multiple dynamically active structural degrees of freedom.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number076901
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume131
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 18 2023

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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