Extended Data Fig. 3: Scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) maps and STM topography showing the behavior of the CDW intensity upon illumination of linearly polarized light.
From: Optical manipulation of the charge-density-wave state in RbV3Sb5
a-b, The two directions of laser polarization with respect to the schematic reciprocal lattice. The red and blue double arrows denote the polarization direction of the laser beam. Upon laser illumination along \({Q}_{1}\) and \({Q}_{3}\) directions, the same switching behaviour of the CDW intensities appears both in the STS map (c-d, \({V}_{{bias}}\) = −200 mV, \({I}_{{set}}\) = 100 pA) and STM topography (e-f).
