  Electric-field-dependent pulse measurements are reported in the
charge-ordered state of alpha-(BEDT-TTF)2I3. At low electric fields up to about
50 V/cm only negligible deviations from Ohmic behavior can be identified with
no threshold field. At larger electric fields and up to about 100 V/cm a
reproducible negative differential resistance is observed with a significant
change in shape of the measured resistivity in time. These changes critically
depend whether constant voltage or constant current is applied to the single
crystal. At high enough electric fields the resistance displays a dramatic drop
down to metallic values and relaxes subsequently in a single-exponential manner
to its low-field steady-state value. We argue that such an electric-field
induced negative differential resistance and switching to transient states are
fingerprints of cooperative domain-wall dynamics inherent to two-dimensional
bond-charge density wave with ferroelectric-like nature.

Strongly Correlated Electrons