Emerging ultrafast techniques for studying quantum materials

A Zong, BR Nebgen, SC Lin, JA Spies… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In quantum materials, emergent functional properties resulting from strong correlations or
electronic topology offer opportunities for new applications. Over the past decade, ultrafast …

Lightwave electronics in condensed matter

M Borsch, M Meierhofer, R Huber, M Kira - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Key properties of quantum materials stem from dynamic interaction chains that connect
stable electronic quasiparticles through short-lived coherences, which are difficult to control …

Polarized phonons carry angular momentum in ultrafast demagnetization

SR Tauchert, M Volkov, D Ehberger, D Kazenwadel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetic phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and indispensable for modern science and
technology, but it is notoriously difficult to change the magnetic order of a material in a rapid …

Attosecond spectroscopy for the investigation of ultrafast dynamics in atomic, molecular and solid-state physics

R Borrego-Varillas, M Lucchini… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the first demonstration of the generation of attosecond pulses (1 as= 10− 18 s) in the
extreme-ultraviolet spectral region, several measurement techniques have been introduced …

Attosecond clocking of correlations between Bloch electrons

J Freudenstein, M Borsch, M Meierhofer, D Afanasiev… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Delocalized Bloch electrons and the low-energy correlations between them determine key
optical, electronic and entanglement functionalities of solids, all the way through to phase …

Advances in ultrafast plasmonics

AN Koya, M Romanelli, J Kuttruff… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In the past 20 years, we have reached a broad understanding of many light-driven
phenomena in nanoscale systems. The temporal dynamics of the excited states are instead …

The 2021 ultrafast spectroscopic probes of condensed matter roadmap

J Lloyd-Hughes, PM Oppeneer… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In the 60 years since the invention of the laser, the scientific community has developed
numerous fields of research based on these bright, coherent light sources, including the …

Direct observation of ultrafast exciton localization in an organic semiconductor with soft X-ray transient absorption spectroscopy

D Garratt, L Misiekis, D Wood, EW Larsen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The localization dynamics of excitons in organic semiconductors influence the efficiency of
charge transfer and separation in these materials. Here we apply time-resolved X-ray …

Unravelling the intertwined atomic and bulk nature of localised excitons by attosecond spectroscopy

M Lucchini, SA Sato, GD Lucarelli, B Moio… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The electro-optical properties of most semiconductors and insulators of technological
interest are dominated by the presence of electron-hole quasi-particles, called excitons. The …

High-order harmonic generation in graphene: Nonlinear coupling of intraband and interband transitions

SA Sato, H Hirori, Y Sanari, Y Kanemitsu, A Rubio - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We investigate high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in graphene with a quantum master
equation approach. The simulations reproduce the observed enhancement in HHG in …