In quantum materials, emergent functional properties resulting from strong correlations or
electronic topology offer opportunities for new applications. Over the past decade, ultrafast …

Key properties of quantum materials stem from dynamic interaction chains that connect
stable electronic quasiparticles through short-lived coherences, which are difficult to control …

Symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials plays a significant role in their macroscopic
electrical, optical, magnetic and topological properties, including, but not limited to, spin …

When intense lightwaves accelerate electrons through a solid, the emerging high-order
harmonic (HH) radiation offers key insights into the material,,,,,,,,,–. Sub-optical-cycle …

Strong light fields have created opportunities to tailor novel functionalities of solids,,,–.
Floquet–Bloch states can form under periodic driving of electrons and enable exotic …

Three-dimensional topological insulators are a phase of matter that hosts unique spin-
polarized gapless surface states that are protected by time-reversal symmetry. They exhibit …

The present status and development of strong-field nano-optics, an emerging field of
nonlinear optics, is discussed. A nonperturbative regime of light-matter interactions is …

Intense light–matter interactions have revolutionized our ability to probe and manipulate
quantum systems at sub-femtosecond timescales, opening routes to the all-optical control of …

Interactions of quantum materials with strong laser fields can induce exotic non-equilibrium
electronic states,,,,–. Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, a new class of direct-gap …

Delocalized Bloch electrons and the low-energy correlations between them determine key
optical, electronic and entanglement functionalities of solids, all the way through to phase …