A terahertz-driven non-equilibrium phase transition in a room temperature atomic vapour

There are few demonstrated examples of phase transitions that may be driven directly by terahertz-frequency electric fields, and those that are known require field strengths exceeding 1 MVcm−1. Here we report a non-equilibrium phase transition driven by a weak ( 1 Vcm−1), continuous-wave terahertz e...

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Main Authors: Wade, C.G., Marcuzzi, Matteo, Levi, Emanuele, Kondo, J.M., Lesanovsky, Igor, Adams, C.S., Weatherill, K.J.
Format: Article
Language:English
English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/53234/