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NPJ COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS
卷 7, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41524-021-00582-w
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- Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS [ZDBS-LY-JSC019]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB43020000]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [11925407, 61927901]
- Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Science (BES), Materials Science and Engineering Division (MSED), of the US Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-AC02-05CH11231, KC2301]
Hot carrier cooling plays an important role in photoexcitation-induced phase transitions, enhancing atomic driving forces and atomic kinetic energy. The subsequent cooling induces nonradiative recombination of photoexcited electrons and holes, leading to ultrafast recovery of atomic structures observed experimentally. These findings provide a comprehensive understanding of atomic dynamics in optically excited structural phase transitions.
The hot carrier cooling occurs in most photoexcitation-induced phase transitions (PIPTs), but its role has often been neglected in many theoretical simulations as well as in proposed mechanisms. Here, by including the previously ignored hot carrier cooling in real-time time-dependent density functional theory (rt-TDDFT) simulations, we investigated the role of hot carrier cooling in PIPTs. Taking IrTe2 as an example, we reveal that the cooling of hot electrons from the higher energy levels of spatially extended states to the lower energy levels of the localized Ir-Ir dimer antibonding states strengthens remarkably the atomic driving forces and enhances atomic kinetic energy. These two factors combine to dissolute the Ir-Ir dimers on a timescale near the limit of atomic motions, thus initiating a deterministic kinetic phase transition. We further demonstrate that the subsequent cooling induces nonradiative recombination of photoexcited electrons and holes, leading to the ultrafast recovery of the Ir-Ir dimers observed experimentally. These findings provide a complete picture of the atomic dynamics in optically excited structural phase transitions.
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