Engineering crystal structures with light

AS Disa, TF Nova, A Cavalleri - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
The crystal structure of a solid largely dictates its electronic, optical and mechanical
properties. Indeed, much of the exploration of quantum materials in recent years including …

Cuprate superconductors as viewed through a striped lens

JM Tranquada - Advances in Physics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Understanding the electron pairing in hole-doped cuprate superconductors has been a
challenge, in particular because the “normal” state from which it evolves is unprecedented …

Extreme tensile strain states in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 membranes

SS Hong, M Gu, M Verma, V Harbola, BY Wang, D Lu… - Science, 2020 - science.org
A defining feature of emergent phenomena in complex oxides is the competition and
cooperation between ground states. In manganites, the balance between metallic and …

Discovery of conjoined charge density waves in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5

H Li, G Fabbris, AH Said, JP Sun, YX Jiang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The electronic instabilities in CsV3Sb5 are believed to originate from the V 3 d-electrons on
the kagome plane, however the role of Sb 5 p-electrons for 3-dimensional orders is largely …

Charge correlations in cuprate superconductors

SM Hayden, JM Tranquada - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
High-temperature superconductivity, with transition temperatures up to≈ 134 K at ambient
pressure, occurs in layered cuprate compounds. The conducting CuO2 planes, which are …

Probing quantum materials with uniaxial stress

CW Hicks, F Jerzembeck, HML Noad… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Over the past approximately 10 years, it has become routine to use piezoelectric actuators to
apply large anisotropic stresses to correlated electron materials. Elastic strains exceeding …

van der Waals driven anharmonic melting of the 3D charge density wave in VSe2

J Diego, AH Said, SK Mahatha, R Bianco… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding of charge-density wave (CDW) phases is a main challenge in condensed
matter due to their presence in high-T c superconductors or transition metal dichalcogenides …

Modulation of the octahedral structure and potential superconductivity of La3Ni2O7 through strain engineering

Z Huo, Z Luo, P Zhang, A Yang, Z Liu, X Tao… - Science China Physics …, 2025 - Springer
The recent transport measurements of La3Ni2O7 uncovered a “right-triangle” shape of the
superconducting dome in the pressure-temperature (PT) phase diagram. Motivated by this …

Exploring Quantum Materials with Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

M Mitrano, S Johnston, YJ Kim, MPM Dean - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Understanding quantum materials—solids in which interactions among constituent electrons
yield a great variety of novel emergent quantum phenomena—is a forefront challenge in …

Unveiling unequivocal charge stripe order in a prototypical cuprate superconductor

J Choi, Q Wang, S Jöhr, NB Christensen, J Küspert… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
In the cuprates, high-temperature superconductivity, spin-density-wave order, and charge-
density-wave (CDW) order are intertwined, and symmetry determination is challenging due …