Excitons–two-particle correlated electron-hole pairs–are the dominant low-energy optical
excitation in the broad class of semiconductor materials, which range from classical silicon …

With significant advances in classifying and cataloguing topological matter, the focus of
topological physics has shifted towards quantum control, particularly the creation and …

Floquet engineering with periodic driving as a powerful tool for designing desirable
topological states has been the subject of intense recent studies. Here, we present the …

The control of low frequency collective modes in solids by light presents important
challenges and opportunities for condensed matter physics. We propose a method to …

Floquet–Bloch manipulation, achieved by driving a material periodically with a laser pulse,
is a method that enables the engineering of electronic and magnetic phases in solids by …

Ultrashort laser pulses can be used to manipulate quantum materials and probe the ultrafast
dynamics, where the pump photon energy can strongly affect the light-matter coupling …

Driven quantum materials often feature emergent topology, otherwise absent in static
crystals. Dynamic bulk-boundary correspondence, encoded by nondissipative gapless …

Light is a preeminent spectroscopic tool for investigating the electronic structure of surfaces.
Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy has mainly been developed in the last 30 years …

The interplay of chiralities in light and quantum matter provides an opportunity to design and
manipulate chirality-dependent properties in quantum materials. Herein we report the …

While intense laser irradiation and moiré engineering have independently proven powerful
for tuning material properties on demand in condensed matter physics, their combination …