2021
DOI: 10.1126/science.abd9088
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Spatiotemporal characterization of the field-induced insulator-to-metal transition

Abstract: Many correlated systems feature an insulator-to-metal transition that can be triggered by an electric field. Although it is known that metallization takes place through filament formation, the details of how this process initiates and evolves remain elusive. We use in-operando optical reflectivity to capture the growth dynamics of the metallic phase with space and time resolution. We demonstrate that filament formation is triggered by nucleation at hotspots, with a subsequent expansion over several decades in … Show more

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“…However, unlike most mammalian mRNAs, the coronavirus genome has several ORFs between the 5’ end and the 3’ end, both of which contain cis-acting signals involved in RNA replication ( 11 , 12 ). The transcribed sgRNA contain a common 5’ leader sequence with 72-nt long, which is derived from the 5’ end of viral genome ( 33 , 62 , 66 ) ( Figure 1B ).…”
Section: Proteins Encoded By Coronavirus Genomementioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, unlike most mammalian mRNAs, the coronavirus genome has several ORFs between the 5’ end and the 3’ end, both of which contain cis-acting signals involved in RNA replication ( 11 , 12 ). The transcribed sgRNA contain a common 5’ leader sequence with 72-nt long, which is derived from the 5’ end of viral genome ( 33 , 62 , 66 ) ( Figure 1B ).…”
Section: Proteins Encoded By Coronavirus Genomementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Interestingly, recent work by Del Valle et al provides new experimental insight on the process of filamentary incubation. 43 Modifying the local defect concentration presents an appealing and effective new way of modifying the Mott metalinsulator transition. Examples include: controlling oxygen vacancies in vanadates, 44 doping rare-earth nickelates (e.g., SmNiO 3 ) with light ions such as hydrogen, 45 and controlling vacancies and doping in LaCoO 3 .…”
Section: A Metal-insulator Transitions In Quantum Materialsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In particular, optical control of VO 2 ’s phase transition at room temperature has great potential for investigating the intrinsic physical mechanism and realizing optical modulation devices. Currently, optical pumping is used to induce the photoexcitation insulator-metal phase transition, which promises to allow vital insights into the nature of each state and may lead to metastable new phases under non-equilibrium conditions 29 32 . However, being an ultrafast excitation, such optical means cannot introduce stable phase transition; instead, a transient process on the picosecond scale is induced.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%