Recent progress in utilizing ultrafast light-matter interaction to control the macroscopic
properties of quantum materials is reviewed. Particular emphasis is placed on photoinduced …

The incessant demand for higher density, faster access time and lower power consuming
memory devices such as random access memories have driven tremendous research and …

The enigmatic interplay between electronic and magnetic phenomena observed in many
early experiments and outlined in Maxwell's equations propelled the development of …

Nonlinear interactions of spin-waves and their quanta, magnons, have emerged as
prominent candidates for interference-based technology, ranging from quantum transduction …

Single layer MoS2 is an ideal material for the emerging field of “valleytronics” in which
charge carrier momentum can be finely controlled by optical excitation. This system is also …

Future information technologies, such as ultrafast data recording, quantum computation or
spintronics, call for ever faster spin control by light,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,. Intense terahertz pulses can …

Laser pulses induce spin-selective charge flow that we show to generate dramatic changes
in the magnetic structure of materials, including a switching of magnetic order from …

The strongest interaction between microscopic spins in magnetic materials is the exchange
interaction J ex. Therefore, ultrafast control of J ex holds the promise to control spins on …

The vision of using light to manipulate electronic and spin excitations in materials on their
fundamental time and length scales requires new approaches in experiment and theory to …

Ultrafast non-thermal manipulation of magnetization by light relies on either indirect coupling
of the electric field component of the light with spins via spin-orbit interaction or direct …