Conference proceedings article
Laser-Induced Undoing of a Peierls Distortion



Publication Details
Authors:
Zijlstra, E.; Huntemann, N.; Garcia, M.
Editor:
Corkum P., Silvestri S., Nelson K., Riedle E., Schoenlein R.
Publisher:
Springer
Place:
Berlin, Heidelberg
Publication year:
2009
Journal:
ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA XVI
Pages range:
232-234
Book title:
Ultrafast Phenomena XVI
Title of series:
Springer Series in Chemical Physics
Number in series:
92
Volume number:
92
Start page:
232
End page:
234
Number of pages:
3
ISBN:
978-3-540-95945-8
eISBN:
978-3-540-95946-5
ISSN:
0172-6218

Abstract
On the basis of ab initio calculations we predict that in Arsenic under pressure a solid-solid phase transition from the A7 structure, which is stabilized by the Peierls mechanism, into the simple cubic structure, which has no Peierls distortion, can be induced by an ultrashort laser pulse. A comparison between the local density approximation and the generalized gradient approximation shows that our prediction does not depend on the approximation used.


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