J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 88, 044704 (2019) [6 Pages]
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Possible Light-Induced Superconductivity in a Strongly Correlated Electron System

Nikolaj Bittner1,2,, Takami Tohyama3, Stefan Kaiser1,4, and Dirk Manske1
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1Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany2Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland3Department of Applied Physics, Tokyo University of Science, Katsushika, Tokyo 125-8585, Japan44th Physics Institute, University of Stuttgart, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Received August 21, 2018; Accepted January 26, 2019; Published March 13, 2019

Using a nonequilibrium implementation of the Lanczos-based exact diagonalisation technique we study the possibility of the light-induced superconducting phase coherence in a solid state system after an ultrafast optical excitation. In particular, we investigate the buildup of superconducting correlations by calculating an exact time-dependent wave function reflecting the properties of the system in non-equilibrium and the corresponding transient response functions. Within our picture we identify a possible transient Meissner effect after dynamical quenching of the non-superconducting wavefunction and extract a characteristic superfluid density that we compare to experimental data. Finally, we find that the stability of the induced superconducting state depends crucially on the nature of the excitation quench: namely, a pure interaction quench induces a long-lived superconducting state, whereas a phase quench leads to a short-lived transient superconductor.

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