期刊
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 102, 期 18, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.184308
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- Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS [ZDBS-LY-JSC019]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [11925407]
- Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Science (BES), Materials Science and Engineering Division (MSED), of the US Department of Energy (DOE) under the Materials Theory program [DE-AC02-05CH11231, KC2301]
Photoinduced phase transitions can have complex and intriguing behaviors more than material ground-state dynamics. Understanding the underlying mechanism can help us to design new ways to manipulate the materials. A variety of mechanisms has been proposed to explain the photoinduced phase transitions of IrTe2, but a consensus has yet to be reached. Here, we study the photo-induced phase transitions of IrTe2 by performing the real-time time-dependent density functional theory (rt-TDDFT) simulations in combination with the occupation constrained DFT method. We reveal that the microscopic driving force for the photo-induced phase transitions arises from the tendency to lower the energy levels occupied by the excited carriers, through the increase or decrease of the associated atomic pair distances, depending on whether the newly occupied states are antibonding or bonding states, respectively. The geometric constraints between different bonds represented by the Poisson ratio can bring together different tendencies from different atomic pairs, thus forming a complex intriguing dynamic picture depending on the intensity of the excitation. We also find that phonons don't play a primary role, but can assist the phase transition. These findings imply that one can control the structural phase transitions by selectively exciting photocarriers into designated atomic states using appropriate photon sources.
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