Colloquium: Nonthermal pathways to ultrafast control in quantum materials

A De La Torre, DM Kennes, M Claassen, S Gerber… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Recent progress in utilizing ultrafast light-matter interaction to control the macroscopic
properties of quantum materials is reviewed. Particular emphasis is placed on photoinduced …

2D materials for optical modulation: challenges and opportunities

S Yu, X Wu, Y Wang, X Guo, L Tong - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to their atomic layer thickness, strong light–material interaction, high nonlinearity,
broadband optical response, fast relaxation, controllable optoelectronic properties, and high …

Pseudospin-selective Floquet band engineering in black phosphorus

S Zhou, C Bao, B Fan, H Zhou, Q Gao, H Zhong, T Lin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Time-periodic light field has emerged as a control knob for manipulating quantum states in
solid-state materials,–, cold atoms and photonic systems through hybridization with photon …

Floquet engineering of black phosphorus upon below-gap pum**

S Zhou, C Bao, B Fan, F Wang, H Zhong, H Zhang… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Time-periodic light field can dress the electronic states and lead to light-induced emergent
properties in quantum materials. While below-gap pum** is regarded favorable for …

Cavity quantum-electrodynamical polaritonically enhanced electron-phonon coupling and its influence on superconductivity

MA Sentef, M Ruggenthaler, A Rubio - Science advances, 2018 - science.org
So far, laser control of solids has been mainly discussed in the context of strong classical
nonlinear light-matter coupling in a pump-probe framework. Here, we propose a quantum …

Topological mosaics in moiré superlattices of van der Waals heterobilayers

Q Tong, H Yu, Q Zhu, Y Wang, X Xu, W Yao - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures formed by two-dimensional atomic crystals provide a
powerful approach towards designer condensed matter systems,,,,,,,,,,,,,,. Incommensurate …

Microscopic theory for the light-induced anomalous Hall effect in graphene

SA Sato, JW McIver, M Nuske, P Tang, G Jotzu… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We employ a quantum Liouville equation with relaxation to model the recently observed
anomalous Hall effect in graphene irradiated by an ultrafast pulse of circularly polarized …

[PDF][PDF] Macroscale superlubricity enabled by graphene‐coated surfaces

Z Zhang, Y Du, S Huang, F Meng, L Chen… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Friction and wear remain the primary modes for energy dissipation in moving mechanical
components. Superlubricity is highly desirable for energy saving and environmental …

Dynamical time-reversal symmetry breaking and photo-induced chiral spin liquids in frustrated Mott insulators

M Claassen, HC Jiang, B Moritz… - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
The search for quantum spin liquids in frustrated quantum magnets recently has enjoyed a
surge of interest, with various candidate materials under intense scrutiny. However, an …

Cavity quantum electrodynamical Chern insulator: Towards light-induced quantized anomalous Hall effect in graphene

X Wang, E Ronca, MA Sentef - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We show that an energy gap is induced in graphene by light-matter coupling to a circularly
polarized photon mode in a cavity. Using many-body perturbation theory, we compute the …