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@ARTICLE{Kafle:626185,
author = {Kafle, Tika R and Zhang, Yingchao and Wang, Yi-yan and Shi,
Xun and Li, Na and Sapkota, Richa and Thurston, Jeremy and
You, Wenjing and Gao, Shunye and Dong, Qingxin and
Rossnagel, Kai and Chen, Gen-Fu and Freericks, James and
Kapteyn, Henry C and Murnane, Margaret M},
title = {{N}on-equilibrium states and interactions in the
topological insulator and topological crystalline insulator
phases of {N}a{C}d$_4${A}s$_3$},
journal = {Structural dynamics},
volume = {12},
number = {1},
issn = {2329-7778},
address = {Melville, NY},
publisher = {AIP Publishing LLC},
reportid = {PUBDB-2025-01328},
pages = {014501},
year = {2025},
note = {M.M.M. and H.C.K. acknowledge support by the U.S.Department
of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences x-ray
Scattering Program Award DE-SC0002002 for this research.The
ARPES setup was supported by the NSF through JILA
PhysicsFrontiers Center PHY-2317149. J.K.F. was supported by
theDepartment of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences under Award
DE-FG02-08ER46542. J.K.F. was also supported by the
McDevittbequest at Georgetown University.},
abstract = {Topological materials are of great interest because they
can support metallic edge or surface states that are robust
against perturbations, with the potential for technological
applications. Here, we experimentally explore the
light-induced non-equilibrium properties of two distinct
topological phases in NaCd$_4$As$_3$: a topological
crystalline insulator (TCI) phase and a topological
insulator (TI) phase. This material has surface states that
are protected by mirror symmetry in the TCI phase at room
temperature, while it undergoes a structural phase
transition to a TI phase below 200 K. After exciting the
TI phase by an ultrafast laser pulse, we observe a leading
band edge shift of >150 meV that slowly builds up and
reaches a maximum after ∼0.6 ps and that persists for ∼8
ps. The slow rise time of the excited electron population
and electron temperature suggests that the electronic and
structural orders are strongly coupled in this TI phase. It
also suggests that the directly excited electronic states
and the probed electronic states are weakly coupled. Both
couplings are likely due to a partial relaxation of the
lattice distortion, which is known to be associated with the
TI phase. In contrast, no distinct excited state is observed
in the TCI phase immediately or after photoexcitation, which
we attribute to the low density of states and phase space
available near the Fermi level. Our results show how
ultrafast laser excitation can reveal the distinct excited
states and interactions in phase-rich topological
materials.},
cin = {FS-SXQM},
ddc = {500},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)FS-SXQM-20190201},
pnm = {632 - Materials – Quantum, Complex and Functional
Materials (POF4-632)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-632},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {39935451},
UT = {WOS:001416704800003},
doi = {10.1063/4.0000273},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/626185},
}