Dynamics of photo-doped charge transfer insulators

Abstract

We study the dynamics of charge-transfer insulators after photo-excitation using the three-band Emery model and a nonequilibrium extension of Hartree-Fock+EDMFT and GW+EDMFT. While the equilibrium properties are accurately reproduced by the Hartree-Fock treatment of the full $p$ bands, dynamical correlations are essential for a proper description of the photo-doped state. The insertion of doublons and holons leads to a renormalization of the charge transfer gap %and $p$ bands and to a substantial broadening of the bands. We calculate the time-resolved photoemission spectrum and optical conductivity and find qualitative agreement with experiments. Our formalism enables the realistic description of nonequilibrium phenomena in a large class of charge-transfer insulators, and provides a tool to explore the optical manipulation of interaction and correlation effects.