D. Lea

Anisotropy of Ultrafast Strain in $V_2O_3$ Thin Films: Out-of-Equilibrium Phase Transitions under Interfacial Clamping

Ultrafast photoinduced insulator-to-metal transitions in correlated materials are often mediated by lattice distortions, yet the role of interfacial lattice constraints in shaping nonequilibrium pathways remains largely unexplored. We use azimuth-resolved time-resolved X-ray diffraction to track orientation-dependent s...