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Transient superconductivity without superconductivity

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Giuliano Chiriacò *
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Andrew J. Millis
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I. L. Aleǐner
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.98.220510delete
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Recent experiments on K3C60 and layered copper-oxide materials have reported substantial changes in the optical response following application of an intense THz pulse. These data have been interpreted as the stimulation of a transient superconducting state even at temperatures well above the equilibrium transition temperature. We propose an alternative phenomenology based on the assumption that the pulse creates a nonsuperconducting, though nonequilibrium, situation in which the linear response conductivity is negative. The negative conductivity implies that the spatially uniform prepulse state is unstable and evolves to a new state with a spontaneous electric polarization. This state exhibits coupled oscillations of entropy and electric charge whose coupling to incident probe radiation modifies the reflectivity, leading to an apparently super-conductinglike response that resembles the data. Dependencies of the reflectivity on polarization and angle of incidence of the probe are predicted and other experimental consequences are discussed.
Keywords:
LIGHT-INDUCED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
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Physical Review B cover
Physical Review B
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Columbia University
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