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Journal Article
X-ray scattering from light-driven spin fluctuations in a doped Mott insulator
2021
Overview
Manipulating spin fluctuations with ultrafast laser pulses is a promising route to dynamically control collective phenomena in strongly correlated materials. However, understanding how photoexcited spin degrees of freedom evolve at a microscopic level requires a momentum- and energy-resolved characterization of their nonequilibrium dynamics. Here, we study the photoinduced dynamics of finite-momentum spin excitations in two-dimensional Mott insulators on a square lattice. By calculating the time-resolved resonant inelastic x-ray scattering cross-section, we show that an ultrafast pump above the Mott gap induces a prompt softening of the spin excitation energy, compatible with a transient renormalization of the exchange interaction. While spin fluctuations in a hole-doped system (paramagnons) are well described by Floquet theory, magnons at half filling are found to deviate from this picture. Furthermore, we show that the paramagnon softening is accompanied by an ultrafast suppression of
d
-wave pairing correlations, indicating a link between the transient spin excitation dynamics and superconducting pairing far from equilibrium.
The manipulation of spins with ultrafast lasers is a promising route to control the properties of a wide variety of quantum materials. Here, the authors present a simulation of Floquet-engineered spin fluctuations in a correlated system and of their fingerprints in ultrafast inelastic X-ray scattering experiments.
