Lightwave electronics in condensed matter

M Borsch, M Meierhofer, R Huber, M Kira - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Key properties of quantum materials stem from dynamic interaction chains that connect
stable electronic quasiparticles through short-lived coherences, which are difficult to control …

Emerging ultrafast techniques for studying quantum materials

A Zong, BR Nebgen, SC Lin, JA Spies… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In quantum materials, emergent functional properties resulting from strong correlations or
electronic topology offer opportunities for new applications. Over the past decade, ultrafast …

Light-wave-controlled Haldane model in monolayer hexagonal boron nitride

S Mitra, Á Jiménez-Galán, M Aulich, M Neuhaus… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
In recent years, the stacking and twisting of atom-thin structures with matching crystal
symmetry has provided a unique way to create new superlattice structures in which new …

Build-up and dephasing of Floquet–Bloch bands on subcycle timescales

S Ito, M Schüler, M Meierhofer, S Schlauderer… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

Tunable non-integer high-harmonic generation in a topological insulator

CP Schmid, L Weigl, P Grössing, V Junk, C Gorini… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
When intense lightwaves accelerate electrons through a solid, the emerging high-order
harmonic (HH) radiation offers key insights into the material,,,,,,,,,–. Sub-optical-cycle …

Engineering symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials

L Du, T Hasan, A Castellanos-Gomez, GB Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

Strong-field nano-optics

P Dombi, Z Pápa, J Vogelsang, SV Yalunin, M Sivis… - Reviews of Modern …, 2020 - APS
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 …

Valley quantum interference modulated by hyperbolic shear polaritons

G Jia, J Luo, C Cui, R Kou, Y Tian, M Schubert - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Recently, symmetry-broken polaritons within low-symmetry crystals have triggered extensive
research interest since they present enhanced directionality of polariton propagation for …

Are there universal signatures of topological phases in high-harmonic generation? Probably not.

O Neufeld, N Tancogne-Dejean, H Hübener… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
High harmonic generation (HHG) has developed in recent years as a promising tool for
ultrafast materials spectroscopy. At the forefront of these advancements, several works …

Attosecond clocking of correlations between Bloch electrons

J Freudenstein, M Borsch, M Meierhofer, D Afanasiev… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
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 …