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

Temperature-dependent electron-phonon coupling in La_{2−x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4} probed by femtosecond x-ray diffraction

Majed Chergui, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Fabrizio Carbone, Paul Beaud, Krunoslav Prsa, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Mathieu Julien Gino Cottet, Kazimierz Conder

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

Direct observation of non-fully-symmetric coherent optical phonons by femtosecond x-ray diffraction

Paul Beaud

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

Identification of coherent lattice modulations coupled to charge and orbital order in a manganite

Paul Beaud

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

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

Femtosecond dynamics of the structural transition in mixed valence manganites

Paul Beaud

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

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

Nonthermal Melting of a Charge Density Wave in TiSe2

Paul Beaud

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

Picosecond dynamics of laser-induced strain in graphite

Paul Beaud

We report on the use of grazing-incidence time-resolved x-ray diffraction to investigate the evolution of strain in natural graphite excited by femtosecond-laser pulses in the fluence range of 6-35 mJ/cm(2). Strains corresponding to up to similar to 2.8% c ...

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

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2011

Temperature-dependent electron-phonon coupling in La_{2−x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4} probed by femtosecond x-ray diffraction

Majed Chergui, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Fabrizio Carbone, Paul Beaud, Krunoslav Prsa, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Mathieu Julien Gino Cottet, Kazimierz Conder

Amer Physical Soc2013