Coherent amplitudon generation in K_0.3MoO_3 through ultrafast   inter-band quasi particle decay
  The charge density wave system K_0.3MoO_3 has been studied using variable energy pump-probe spectroscopy, ellipsometry, and inelastic light scattering. The observed transient reflectivity response exhibits quite a complex behavior, containing contributions due to quasi particle excitations, coherent amplitudons and phonons, and heating effects. The generation of coherent amplitudons is discussed in terms of relaxation of photo-excited quasi particles, and is found to be resonant with the interband plasmon frequency. Two additional coherent excitations observed in the transients are assigned to zone-folding modes of the charge density wave state. 
D. M. Sagar, A. A. Tsvetkov, D. Fausti, S. van Smaalen, P. H. M. van   Loosdrecht