%0 Journal Article %A Mitrano, M. %A Cotugno, G. %A Clark, S. R. %A Singla, R. %A Kaiser, S. %A Stähler, J. %A Beyer, R. %A Dressel, M. %A Baldassarre, L. %A Nicoletti, D. %A Perucchi, A. %A Hasegawa, T. %A Okamoto, H. %A Jaksch, D. %A Cavalleri, A. %T Pressure-Dependent Relaxation in the Photoexcited Mott Insulator ET–F<sub>2</sub>TCNQ: Influence of Hopping and Correlations on Quasiparticle Recombination Rates %J Physical review letters %V 112 %N 11 %@ 1079-7114 %C College Park, Md. %I APS %M PUBDB-2016-03175 %P 117801 %D 2014 %X We measure the ultrafast recombination of photoexcited quasiparticles (holon-doublon pairs) in the one dimensional Mott insulator ET–F<sub>2</sub>TCNQ as a function of external pressure, which is used to tune the electronic structure. At each pressure value, we first fit the static optical properties and extract the electronic bandwidth t and the intersite correlation energy V. We then measure the recombination times as a function of pressure, and we correlate them with the corresponding microscopic parameters. We find that the recombination times scale differently than for metals and semiconductors. A fit to our data based on the time-dependent extended Hubbard Hamiltonian suggests that the competition between local recombination and delocalization of the Mott-Hubbard exciton dictates the efficiency of the recombination. %F PUB:(DE-HGF)16 %9 Journal Article %U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000332925900038 %$ pmid:24702420 %R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.117801 %U https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/307321