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The multi-THz conductivity of VO2 recorded during a photoinduced insulator-metal transition directly reveals the femtosecond dynamics of V-V stretching modes and electronic correlations. We suggest a novel qualitative model for the nonthermal phase transition.
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Huber, R. et al. (2009). THz Slow Motion of an Ultrafast Insulator-Metal Transition in VO2: Coherent Structural Dynamics and Electronic Correlations. In: Corkum, P., Silvestri, S., Nelson, K., Riedle, E., Schoenlein, R. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena XVI. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 92. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-95946-5_58
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