Observation of structural anisotropy and the onset of liquidlike motion during the nonthermal melting of InSb

Summary, in English

The melting dynamics of laser excited InSb have been studied with femtosecond x-ray diffraction. These measurements observe the delayed onset of diffusive atomic motion, signaling the appearance of liquidlike dynamics. They also demonstrate that the root-mean-squared displacement in the [111] direction increases faster than in the [110] direction after the first 500 fs. This structural anisotropy indicates that the initially generated fluid differs significantly from the equilibrium liquid.

• Author: KJ Gaffney; AM Lindenberg; Jörgen Larsson; K Sokolowski-Tinten; C Blome; Ola Synnergren; J Sheppard; C Caleman; AG MacPhee; D Weinstein; DP Lowney; T Allison; T Matthews; RW Falcone; AL Cavalieri; DM Fritz; SH Lee; PH Bucksbaum; DA Reis; J Rudati; AT Macrander; PH Fuoss; CC Kao; DP Siddons; R Pahl; K Moffat; J Als-Nielsen; S Duesterer; R Ischebeck; H Schlarb; H Schulte-Schrepping; J Schneider; D von der Linde; O Hignette; F Sette; HN Chapman; RW Lee; Tue Hansen; JS Wark; M Bergh; G Huldt; D van der Spoel; N Timneanu; J Hajdu; RA Akre; E Bong; P Krejcik; J Arthur; S Brennan; K Luening; JB Hastings
• Department/s: Atomic Physics; MAX IV Laboratory
• Publishing year: 2005
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: Physical Review Letters
• Volume: 95
• Issue: 12
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• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.125701
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Topic: Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1079-7114