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 …

Emerging tailored light sources for studying chirality and symmetry

D Habibović, KR Hamilton, O Neufeld… - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Ultrashort laser pulses are unique tools to trigger and probe the fastest charge dynamics in
matter, allowing the investigation of fundamental physical phenomena with unprecedented …

High harmonic generation in solids: particle and wave perspectives

L Li, P Lan, X Zhu, P Lu - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
High harmonic generation (HHG) from gas-phase atoms (or molecules) has opened up a
new frontier in ultrafast optics, where attosecond time resolution and angstrom spatial …

Following the nonthermal phase transition in niobium dioxide by time-resolved harmonic spectroscopy

Z Nie, L Guery, EB Molinero, P Juergens… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
Photoinduced phase transitions in correlated materials promise diverse applications from
ultrafast switches to optoelectronics. Resolving those transitions and possible metastable …

Light-wave-controlled Haldane model in monolayer hexagonal boron nitride

S Mitra, Á Jiménez-Galán, M Aulich, M Neuhaus… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
In recent years, the stacking and twisting of atom-thin structures with matching crystal
symmetry has provided a unique way to create new superlattice structures in which new …

Analytical and numerical study of light-induced optical microcavity generation by half-cycle<? TeX\break?> light pulses in the resonant medium

R Arkhipov, A Pakhomov, O Diachkova… - Journal of the Optical …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
An optical Bragg-like microcavity can be formed when extremely short light pulses
interacting coherently with the medium collide in the resonant medium. Here we present an …

All-optical subcycle microscopy on atomic length scales

T Siday, J Hayes, F Schiegl, F Sandner, P Menden… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Bringing optical microscopy to the shortest possible length and time scales has been a long-
sought goal, connecting nanoscopic elementary dynamics with the macroscopic …

Quasiparticle picture for high-harmonic generation in correlated electron systems

K Huang, TY Du - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The key optical and electronic functionalities in condensed materials are determined by the
band filling of electrons and their Coulomb correlations. To directly capture how many-body …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives and recent advances of two-dimensional III-nitrides: Material synthesis and emerging device applications

Y Wu, P Wang, W Lee, A Aiello, P Deotare… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Both two-dimensional (2D) transitional metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and III–V
semiconductors have been considered as potential platforms for quantum technology. While …

Excitation and control of level populations in rectangular quantum wells by unipolar half-cycle attosecond pulses

R Arkhipov, P Belov, A Pakhomov… - Journal of the Optical …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Unipolar and quasi-unipolar half-cycle pulses represent the limit of the pulse shortening in a
given spectral range. So far such pulses have become a subject of active research due to …