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NATURE PHYSICS
卷 17, 期 5, 页码 611-+出版社
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-01148-1
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- European Research Council under the European Union [319286]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft via the Cluster of Excellence 'The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging' (EXC 1074) [194651731]
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Max Planck Society
Evidence for light-induced superconductivity in K3C60 was previously limited to optical methods due to the short lifetime of the phase, but extending the lifetime has allowed for measurement of negligible electrical resistance. Excitation of high-Tc cuprates and certain organic superconductors with far-infrared optical pulses has been shown to create non-equilibrium states consistent with high-temperature superconductivity, with these phases becoming metastable under sustained optical driving.
Evidence for light-induced superconductivity in K3C60 was limited to optical methods due to the short lifetime of the phase. Extending the lifetime from picoseconds to nanoseconds now allows measurement of its negligible electrical resistance. Excitation of high-T-c cuprates and certain organic superconductors with intense far-infrared optical pulses has been shown to create non-equilibrium states with optical properties that are consistent with transient high-temperature superconductivity. These non-equilibrium phases have been generated using femtosecond drives, and have been observed to disappear immediately after excitation, which is evidence of states that lack intrinsic rigidity. Here we make use of a new optical device to drive metallic K3C60 with mid-infrared pulses of tunable duration, ranging between one picosecond and one nanosecond. The same superconducting-like optical properties observed over short time windows for femtosecond excitation are shown here to become metastable under sustained optical driving, with lifetimes in excess of ten nanoseconds. Direct electrical probing, which becomes possible at these timescales, yields a vanishingly small resistance with the same relaxation time as that estimated by terahertz conductivity. We provide a theoretical description of the dynamics after excitation, and justify the observed slow relaxation by considering randomization of the order-parameter phase as the rate-limiting process that determines the decay of the light-induced superconductor.
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