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We report here an experimental study of ultrafast response of the dielectric polarization in (Ba0.8Sr0.2)TiO3 thin films to a strong electric field of a nearly single-cycle THz pulse. The phenomenon of Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) is used as a probe of the polarization in the terahertz pump-optical probe experiment. SHG loops for THz pulses of different amplitudes were obtained. The SHG response is modelled assuming that the ferroelectric material is split into 180-degree domains. It is shown that intuitive model based on forced harmonic oscillator does not fully describe to the observed ultrafast ferroelectric response
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Mishina, E., Grishunin, K., Bilyk, V. et al. Polarization switching in ferroelectric thin film induced by a single-period terahertz pulse. MRS Advances 3, 1901–1906 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2018.235
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