Abstract-Nonequilibrium BCS state dynamics induced by intense terahertz pulses in a superconducting NbN film

http://prl.aps.org/accepted/8f079Y71H44123332447539218d4b1f14cf95ad83
Ryusuke Matsunaga and Ryo Shimano

Using the terahertz (THz) pump-THz probe spectroscopy, we have investigated the dynamics of the nonequilibrium BCS state in a superconducting NbN film after the impulsive photoinjection of high-density Bogoliubov quasiparticles (QPs). Superconducting state is rapidly changed within the duration of the monocycle THz pump pulse (1.6 ps). The complex optical conductivity spectra in the nonequilibrium BCS state significantly deviates from that in the equilibrium state. The observed spectral features are qualitatively well described by the effective medium theory that assumes the formation of normal state patches embedded in a superconducting matrix.