OPTICALLY INDUCED METASTABILITY IN UNTWINNED SINGLE-DOMAIN YBA2CU3O7

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WAKE, DR [1 ]
SLAKEY, F [1 ]
KLEIN, MV [1 ]
RICE, JP [1 ]
GINSBERG, DM [1 ]
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[1] UNIV ILLINOIS,SCI & TECHNOL CTR SUPERCONDUCT,URBANA,IL 61801
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.3728
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O4 [物理学];
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Raman spectra of untwinned YBa2Cu3O7 with T(c) = 91 K indicate a 2.2-eV resonance for incident light polarized in the CuO chain direction. The resonance is characterized by the appearance of nominally forbidden phonon modes at 232 and 597 cm-1. Below 100 K the forbidden modes can be optically bleached if the photon energy exceeds 2.2 eV. The resulting optically induced low-temperature state is metastable; upon warming the crystal to T > 200 K the forbidden modes reappear as before.
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