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Photoinduced melting of magnetic order in the correlated electron insulator NdNiO3

A. D. Caviglia1,2, M. Först1, R. Scherwitzl3, V. Khanna1,4,5, H. Bromberger1, R. Mankowsky1, R. Singla1, Y.-D. Chuang6, W. S. Lee7 et al.

O. Krupin8, W. F. Schlotter9, J. J. Turner9, G. L. Dakovski9, M. P. Minitti9, J. Robinson9, V. Scagnoli10, S. B. Wilkins11, S. A. Cavill5,*, M. Gibert3, S. Gariglio3, P. Zubko3, J.-M. Triscone3, J. P. Hill11, S. S. Dhesi5, and A. Cavalleri1,4

  • 1Max-Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany
  • 2Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
  • 3Département de Physique de la Matière Condensée, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 4Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
  • 5Diamond Light Source, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
  • 6Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 7The Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES), Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) National Accelerator Laboratory, and Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94305, USA
  • 8European XFEL GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
  • 9Linac Coherent Light Source, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94305, USA
  • 10Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
  • 11Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA

  • *Present address: Department of Physics, University of York, United Kingdom.
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Phys. Rev. B 88, 220401(R) – Published 2 December, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.220401

Abstract

Using ultrafast resonant soft x-ray diffraction, we demonstrate photoinduced melting of antiferromagnetic order in the correlated electron insulator NdNiO3. Time-dependent analysis of the resonant diffraction spectra allows us to follow the temporal evolution of the charge imbalance between adjacent Ni sites. A direct correlation between the melting of magnetic order and charge rebalancing is found. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the magnetic ordering on the Ni and Nd sites, which are locked together in equilibrium, become decoupled during this nonthermal process.

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Phys. Rev. B 88, 220401(R)– Published 2 December, 2013
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