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Paul Beaud

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Coherent Structural Dynamics of a Prototypical Charge-Density-Wave-to-Metal Transition

Paul Beaud

Using femtosecond time-resolved x-ray diffraction, we directly monitor the coherent lattice dynamics through an ultrafast charge-density-wave-to-metal transition in the prototypical Peierls system K0.3MoO3 over a wide range of relevant excitation fluences. ...

American Physical Society2014

Multiferroics have attracted strong interest for potential applications where electric fields control magnetic order. The ultimate speed of control via magnetoelectric coupling, however, remains largely unexplored. Here, we report an experiment in which we ...

2014

We directly measure by femtosecond time-resolved x-ray diffraction the E-g symmetry coherent phonon excited in bismuth by a strong optical pulse. The magnitude of the E-g mode observed is 0.2 pm peak-to-peak, compared against the 2.7-pm initial displacemen ...

American Physical Society2013

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The strength of the electron-phonon coupling parameter and its evolution throughout a solid's phase diagram often determines phenomena such as superconductivity, charge- and spin-density waves. Its experimental determination relies on the ability to distin ...

Amer Physical Soc2013

We apply grazing-incidence femtosecond x-ray diffraction to investigate the details of the atomic motion connected with a displacively excited coherent optical phonon. We concentrate on the low frequency phonon associated with the charge and orbital order ...

American Physical Society2013

We investigate the structural response of charge and orbitally ordered (CO/OO) manganites to ultrafast optical excitation using optical reflectivity and x-ray diffraction as a probe. We study a La0.42Ca0.58MnO3 (LCMO) thin film and a La0.25Pr0.375Ca0.375Mn ...

American Physical Society2012

Structural and Magnetic Dynamics of a Laser Induced Phase Transition in FeRh

Paul Beaud

We use time-resolved x-ray diffraction and magneto-optical Kerr effect to study the laser-induced antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic phase transition in FeRh. The structural response is given by the nucleation of independent ferromagnetic domains (tau(1) s ...

American Physical Society2012

Probing the Transition from Hydrophilic to Hydrophobic Solvation with Atomic Scale Resolution

Majed Chergui, Ivano Tavernelli, Paul Beaud, Thomas James Penfold, Van Thai Pham, Amal El Nahhas, Renske Marjan van der Veen, Frederico Alves Lima

Picosecond and femtosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy is used to probe the changes of the solvent shell structure upon electron abstraction of aqueous iodide using an ultrashort laser pulse. The transient L-1,L-3 edge EXAFS at 50 ps time delay points to ...

2011

Ultrafast Structural Dynamics in Condensed Matter

Paul Beaud

We review our recent activity in the field of photo-induced structural dynamics in crystalline solids studied using femtosecond X-ray diffraction techniques. ...

2011

We use time-resolved optical reflectivity and x-ray diffraction with femtosecond resolution to study the dynamics of the structural order parameter of the charge density wave phase in TiSe2. We find that the energy density required to melt the charge densi ...

American Physical Society2011