Ultrafast high-harmonic spectroscopy of solids

C Heide, Y Kobayashi, SRU Haque, S Ghimire - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
High-harmonic spectroscopy, an ultrafast all-optical technique initially conceptualized in
atomic and molecular systems, has now emerged as a powerful platform for studying the …

Mina53 demethylates histone H4 arginine 3 asymmetric dimethylation to regulate neural stem/progenitor cell identity

L Zhou, X Zhao, J Sun, K Zou, X Huang, L Yu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Arginine methylation of histones plays a critical role in regulating gene expression. The
writers (methyltransferases) and readers of methylarginine marks are well-known, but the …

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 …

Nanophotonic route to control electron behaviors in 2D materials

DJ Kang, C Onwukaeme, KJ Park, KP Jeon, HY Ryu… - …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) Dirac materials, eg, graphene and transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs), are one-atom-thick monolayers whose electronic behaviors are …

Theory of excitonic polarons: From models to first-principles calculations

Z Dai, C Lian, J Lafuente-Bartolome, F Giustino - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Excitons are neutral excitations that are composed of electrons and holes bound together by
their attractive Coulomb interaction. The electron and the hole forming the exciton also …

Observation of Floquet states and their dephasing in colloidal nanoplatelets driven by visible pulses

Y Li, Y Yang, Y Liu, J Zhu, K Wu - Nature Photonics, 2024 - nature.com
Coherent interaction between light and matter generates photon-dressed replicas of the
original electronic levels (that is, Floquet states). This opens up a so-called field of Floquet …

Subcycle dynamics of excitons under strong laser fields

EB Molinero, B Amorim, M Malakhov, G Cistaro… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Excitons play a key role in the linear optical response of two-dimensional (2D) materials.
However, their role in the nonlinear response to intense, nonresonant, low-frequency light is …

Manipulating the symmetry of photon-dressed electronic states

C Bao, M Schüler, T **ao, F Wang, H Zhong… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Strong light-matter interaction provides opportunities for tailoring the physical properties of
quantum materials on the ultrafast timescale by forming photon-dressed electronic states, ie …

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 …

Light-enhanced nonlinear Hall effect

F Qin, R Chen, CH Lee - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
The Hall response can be dramatically different from its quantized value in materials with
broken inversion symmetry. This stems from the leading Hall contribution beyond the linear …