Ultrafast all-optical quantum control of magnetization dynamics

N Wu, S Zhang, Y Wang, S Meng - Progress in Surface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
With the development of laser and magneto-optical technology and the discovery of a broad
range of magnetic quantum materials exhibiting exotic properties and new physics, ultrafast …

Photoinduced Structural Dynamics of 2H-MoTe2 Under Extremely High-Density Excitation Conditions

T Fukuda, U Ozaki, S Jeong, Y Arashida… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Through interband photoexcitation, a representative transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD)
material, MoTe2, can undergo various phenomena such as photothermal conversion, phase …

Light-induced ultrafast glide-mirror symmetry breaking in black phosphorus

C Bao, F Wang, H Zhong, S Zhou, T Lin, H Zhang… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Symmetry breaking plays an important role in the fields of physics, ranging from particle
physics to condensed matter physics. In solid-state materials, phase transitions are deeply …

Photoinduced ultrafast transition of the local correlated structure in chalcogenide phase-change materials

Y Qi, N Chen, T Vasileiadis, D Zahn, H Seiler, X Li… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Revealing the bonding and time-evolving atomic dynamics in functional materials with
complex lattice structures can update the fundamental knowledge on rich physics therein …

[HTML][HTML] Electronic intraband scattering in a transition-metal dichalcogenide observed by double-excitation ultrafast electron diffraction

Y Iwasaki, T Fukuda, G Noyama, M Akei… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Electronic dynamics in the excited state of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) has
attracted great interest. To understand the ultrafast intraband scattering process of excited …

Femtosecond electron diffraction reveals local disorder and local anharmonicity in thermoelectric SnSe

J Li, Y Qi, Q Yang, L Yue, C Yao, Z Chen… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In addition to long‐range periodicity, local disorder, with local structures deviating from the
average lattice structure, dominates the physical properties of phonons, electrons, and spin …

[HTML][HTML] Simulation of ultrafast electron diffraction intensity under coherent acoustic phonons

Y Zhang, J Li, W Wang, H Tian, W Gao, J Li, S Sun… - Structural …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrafast electron diffraction has been proven to be a powerful tool for the study of coherent
acoustic phonons owing to its high sensitivity to crystal structures. However, this sensitivity …

Photoinduced shortening of metallic bond in 1T′-ReS2 revealed by femtosecond electron diffraction

J Li, L Yue, Z Chen, D **ang, J Cao - Applied Physics Letters, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Rhenium disulfide with a distorted crystal structure has recently attracted tremendous
attention for its excitonic and highly anisotropic properties. While ultrafast spectroscopies …

Terahertz control of surface topology probed with subatomic resolution

V Jelic, S Adams, D Maldonado-Lopez… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Light-induced phase transitions offer a method to dynamically modulate topological states in
bulk complex materials. Yet, next-generation devices demand nanoscale architectures with …

Origin of phonon decoherence

Y Pan, C Emeis, S Jauernik, M Bauer… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Phonon decoherence determines the characteristic timescales over which coherent lattice
vibrations decay, making it a crucial process for understanding the non-equilibrium …