M. Šindler, C. Kadlec, P. Kužel, K. Ilin, M. Siegel, and H. Němec
We investigate time-resolved terahertz conductivity of thin superconducting NbN films with various thicknesses upon their excitation by intense femtosecond laser pulses. The recovery dynamics following a complete destruction of the superconducting state occurs via a growth of superconducting islands in the normal-state environment. This is in contrast with previous observations of the recovery upon strong-field terahertz excitation [R. Matsunaga and R. Shimano, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 187002 (2012)]. We observe that the density of electronic states in the superconducting islands deviates from the BCS theory predictions on a subnanosecond time scale, while equilibrium terahertz conductivity spectra confirm the standard BCS behavior in the ground state.
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