Progress on cutting-edge infrared-terahertz biophysics

P Wang, J Lou, G Fang, C Chang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Infrared-terahertz (IRT) resonant absorption complies with unique biomolecule fingerprints,
including neurotransmitters, proteins, ribonucleic acid, and deoxyribonucleic acid, rendering …

Recent development of ultrafast optical characterizations for quantum materials

T Dong, SJ Zhang, NL Wang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of intense ultrashort optical pulses spanning a frequency range from terahertz to
the visible has opened a new era in the experimental investigation and manipulation of …

Extreme terahertz magnon multiplication induced by resonant magnetic pulse pairs

C Huang, L Luo, M Mootz, J Shang, P Man, L Su… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Nonlinear interactions of spin-waves and their quanta, magnons, have emerged as
prominent candidates for interference-based technology, ranging from quantum transduction …

Quantum coherence tomography of light-controlled superconductivity

L Luo, M Mootz, JH Kang, C Huang, K Eom, JW Lee… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The coupling between superconductors and oscillation cycles of light pulses, ie, lightwave
engineering, is an emerging control concept for superconducting quantum electronics …

A light-induced phononic symmetry switch and giant dissipationless topological photocurrent in ZrTe5

L Luo, D Cheng, B Song, LL Wang, C Vaswani… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Dissipationless currents from topologically protected states are promising for disorder-
tolerant electronics and quantum computation. Here, we photogenerate giant anisotropic …

Superconducting diode effect and nonreciprocal transition lines

A Daido, Y Yanase - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Nonreciprocity in superconductors is attracting much interest owing to its fundamental
importance as well as the potential applicability to engineering. In this paper, we generalize …

Light quantum control of persisting Higgs modes in iron-based superconductors

C Vaswani, JH Kang, M Mootz, L Luo, X Yang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The Higgs mechanism, ie, spontaneous symmetry breaking of the quantum vacuum, is a
cross-disciplinary principle, universal for understanding dark energy, antimatter and …

Nonreciprocal terahertz second-harmonic generation in superconducting NbN under supercurrent injection

S Nakamura, K Katsumi, H Terai, R Shimano - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
Giant second-harmonic generation in the terahertz (THz) frequency range is observed in a
thin film of an s-wave superconductor NbN, where the time-reversal (T) and space-inversion …

Nonlinear optical physics at terahertz frequency

Y Lu, Y Huang, J Cheng, R Ma, X Xu, Y Zang, Q Wu… - …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Terahertz (THz) waves have exhibited promising prospects in 6G/7G communications,
sensing, nondestructive detection, material modulation, and biomedical applications. With …

Terahertz nanoimaging of perovskite solar cell materials

RHJ Kim, Z Liu, C Huang, JM Park, SJ Haeuser… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Direct visualization and quantitative evaluation of charge filling in grain boundary (GB) traps
of hybrid metal halide perovskites require dynamic conductivity imaging simultaneously at …