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 …

[HTML][HTML] Theoretical insights into ultrafast dynamics in quantum materials

M Guan, D Chen, S Hu, H Zhao, P You, S Meng - Ultrafast science, 2022 - spj.science.org
The last few decades have witnessed the extraordinary advances in theoretical and
experimental tools, which have enabled the manipulation and monitoring of ultrafast …

Circular dichroism in higher-order harmonic generation: Heralding topological phases and transitions in Chern insulators

A Chacón, D Kim, W Zhu, SP Kelly, A Dauphin… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Topological materials are of interest to both fundamental science and advanced
technologies because topological states are robust with respect to perturbations and …

High Harmonics and Isolated Attosecond Pulses from

Z Nourbakhsh, N Tancogne-Dejean, H Merdji… - Physical Review Applied, 2021 - APS
On the basis of real-time ab initio calculations, we study the nonperturbative interaction of
two-color laser pulses with Mg O crystal in the strong-field regime to generate isolated …

Manipulating Weyl quasiparticles by orbital-selective photoexcitation in WTe2

MX Guan, E Wang, PW You, JT Sun, S Meng - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Optical control of structural and electronic properties of Weyl semimetals allows
development of switchable and dissipationless topological devices at the ultrafast scale. An …

High-harmonic generation from strain-engineered graphene for polarization tailoring

N Rana, MS Mrudul, G Dixit - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Strain engineering is a versatile method to boost the carrier mobility of two-dimensional
materials-based electronics and optoelectronic devices. In addition, strain is ubiquitous …

Ab initio electronic structure calculations based on numerical atomic orbitals: Basic fomalisms and recent progresses

P Lin, X Ren, X Liu, L He - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The numerical atomic orbital (NAO) basis sets offer a computationally efficient option for
electronic structure calculations, as they require fewer basis functions compared with other …

Probing laser-induced plasma generation in liquid water

J Xu, D Chen, S Meng - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021 - ACS Publications
Understanding photoexcitation dynamics in liquid water is of crucial significance for both
fundamental scientific exploration and technological applications. Despite the observations …

First‐principles dynamics of photoexcited molecules and materials towards a quantum description

P You, D Chen, C Lian, C Zhang… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The past decades have witnessed the success of ground‐state density functional theory
capturing static electronic properties of various materials. However, for time dependent …

Strain effects on high-harmonic generation in monolayer hexagonal boron nitride

XS Kong, XY Wu, L Geng, WD Yu - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Based on the time-dependent density functional theory, we theoretically investigate the
influence of mechanical strains on the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in the …