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1. Ultrafast Magneto-Pressure Spectroscopy and Control of Correlated Phases in a Trilayer Nickelate
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5.0119 - Authors: Zhi Xiang Chong, Joong-Mok Park, Shuyuan Huyan, Avinash Khatri, Martin Mootz, Xinglong Chen, Daniel P. Phelan, Liang Luo, Ilias E. Perakis, J. F. Mitchell, Sergey L. Bud’ko, Paul C. Canfield, Jigang Wang
- Affiliations: Ames National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Iowa State University
- Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16611v1
- Paper page: Ultrafast Magneto-Pressure Spectroscopy and Control of Correlated Phases in a Trilayer Nickelate
Summary: This study developed an ultrafast magneto-pressure optical spectroscopy platform capable of operating simultaneously at pressures up to 40 GPa, magnetic fields up to 7 T, and temperatures as low as 5 K, and applied it to investigate the evolution of quasiparticle dynamics under magnetic pressure in the trilayer nickelate Pr₄Ni₃O₁₀. The experiments revealed a pronounced critical slowing down of quasiparticle relaxation near the charge density wave (CDW) transition, which disappears upon the application of pressure. At higher pressures, the low-temperature relaxation time instead becomes longer, consistent with initial superconducting correlation signatures. However, a magnetic field as high as 7 T hardly alters the relaxation behavior, and no vortex-induced pre-bottleneck dynamics—robustly observed in bulk superconducting control samples—was detected, suggesting that any superconducting state under the present pressure conditions is not bulk-like but rather filamentary or strongly inhomogeneous. This magneto-pressure ultrafast capability opens a new pathway for addressing unresolved issues of pressure-induced superconductivity and intertwined orders in correlated quantum materials.