Unifying the order and disorder dynamics in photoexcited VO2

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Abstract

Photoinduced phase transition (PIPT) is always treated as a coherent process, but ultrafast disordering in PIPT is observed in recent experiments. Utilizing the real-time time-dependent density functional theory method, here we track the motion of individual vanadium (V) ions during PIPT in VO2 and uncover that their coherent or disordered dynamics can be manipulated by tuning the laser fluence. We find that the photoexcited holes generate a force on each V-V dimer to drive their collective coherent motion, in competing with the thermal-induced vibrations. If the laser fluence is so weak that the photoexcited hole density is too low to drive the phase transition alone, the PIPT is a disordered process due to the interference of thermal phonons. We also reveal that the photoexcited holes populated by the V-V dimerized bonding states will become saturated if the laser fluence is too strong, limiting the timescale of photoinduced phase transition.

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Liu, H. W., Liu, W. H., Suo, Z. J., Wang, Z., Luo, J. W., Li, S. S., & Wang, L. W. (2022). Unifying the order and disorder dynamics in photoexcited VO2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(28). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2122534119

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