Ultrafast optical spectroscopy of strongly correlated materials and high-temperature superconductors: a non-equilibrium approach

C Giannetti, M Capone, D Fausti, M Fabrizio… - Advances in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In the last two decades non-equilibrium spectroscopies have evolved from avant-garde
studies to crucial tools for expanding our understanding of the physics of strongly correlated …

Higgs mode in superconductors

R Shimano, N Tsuji - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
When the continuous symmetry of a physical system is spontaneously broken, two types of
collective modes typically emerge: the amplitude and the phase modes of the order …

Light-induced collective pseudospin precession resonating with Higgs mode in a superconductor

R Matsunaga, N Tsuji, H Fujita, A Sugioka, K Makise… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Superconductors host collective modes that can be manipulated with light. We show that a
strong terahertz light field can induce oscillations of the superconducting order parameter in …

Nonlinear light–matter interaction at terahertz frequencies

D Nicoletti, A Cavalleri - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Strong optical pulses at mid-infrared and terahertz frequencies have recently emerged as
powerful tools to manipulate and control the solid state and especially complex condensed …

Lightwave-driven gapless superconductivity and forbidden quantum beats by terahertz symmetry breaking

X Yang, C Vaswani, C Sundahl, M Mootz, L Luo… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Light-induced supercurrents chart a path forward for the electromagnetic design of emergent
materials phases and collective modes for quantum engineering applications. However …

Phase-resolved Higgs response in superconducting cuprates

H Chu, MJ Kim, K Katsumi, S Kovalev… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In high-energy physics, the Higgs field couples to gauge bosons and fermions and gives
mass to their elementary excitations. Experimentally, such couplings can be inferred from …

Higgs Mode in the -Wave Superconductor Driven by an Intense Terahertz Pulse

K Katsumi, N Tsuji, YI Hamada, R Matsunaga… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We investigate the terahertz (THz)-pulse-driven nonlinear response in the d-wave cuprate
superconductor Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+ x (Bi2212) using a THz pump near-infrared probe …

Observing dynamical phases of BCS superconductors in a cavity QED simulator

DJ Young, A Chu, EY Song, D Barberena, D Wellnitz… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract In conventional Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer superconductors, electrons with
opposite momenta bind into Cooper pairs due to an attractive interaction mediated by …

Theory of Anderson pseudospin resonance with Higgs mode in superconductors

N Tsuji, H Aoki - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
A superconductor illuminated by an ac electric field with frequency Ω is theoretically found to
generate a collective precession of Anderson's pseudospins, and hence a coherent …

Theory of light-enhanced phonon-mediated superconductivity

MA Sentef, AF Kemper, A Georges, C Kollath - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We investigate the dynamics of a phonon-mediated superconductor driven out of
equilibrium. The electronic hop** amplitude is ramped down in time, resulting in an …