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 …

Terahertz control of many-body dynamics in quantum materials

CJ Yang, J Li, M Fiebig, S Pal - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum-mechanical phenomena underpin the behaviour of quantum materials at the
microscopic level. The description of several essential properties of these materials …

A novel scheme for ultrashort terahertz pulse generation over a gapless wide spectral range: Raman-resonance-enhanced four-wave mixing

J Le, Y Su, C Tian, AH Kung, YR Shen - Light: Science & Applications, 2023 - nature.com
Ultrashort energetic terahertz (THz) pulses have created an exciting new area of research
on light interactions with matter. For material studies in small laboratories, widely tunable …

Ultrafast renormalization of the on-site coulomb repulsion in a cuprate superconductor

DR Baykusheva, H Jang, AA Husain, S Lee… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Ultrafast lasers are an increasingly important tool to control and stabilize emergent phases
in quantum materials. Among a variety of possible excitation protocols, a particularly …

Near-infrared light-induced superconducting-like state in underdoped studied by -axis terahertz third-harmonic generation

K Katsumi, M Nishida, S Kaiser, S Miyasaka, S Tajima… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The recent observation of the light-induced superconducting (SC)-like transient response in
c-axis optical conductivity far above the SC transition temperature T c in underdoped Y Ba 2 …

Transient trap** into metastable states in systems with competing orders

Z Sun, AJ Millis - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
The quench dynamics of a system involving two competing orders is investigated using a
Ginzburg-Landau theory with relaxational dynamics. We consider the scenario where a …

Nonlinear response of diffusive superconductors to ac electromagnetic fields

P Derendorf, AF Volkov, IM Eremin - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Motivated by the recent experimental progress in studying conventional and unconventional
superconductors in a pump-probe setup, we perform a comprehensive theoretical analysis …

Reconstructing nonequilibrium regimes of quantum many-body systems from the analytical structure of perturbative expansions

C Bertrand, S Florens, O Parcollet, X Waintal - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We propose a systematic approach to the nonequilibrium dynamics of strongly interacting
many-body quantum systems, building upon the standard perturbative expansion in the …

Pump Frequency Resonances for Light-Induced Incipient Superconductivity in

B Liu, M Först, M Fechner, D Nicoletti, J Porras, T Loew… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Optical excitation in the cuprates has been shown to induce transient superconducting
correlations above the thermodynamic transition temperature TC, as evidenced by the …

Driven imposters: Controlling expectations in many-body systems

G McCaul, C Orthodoxou, K Jacobs, GH Booth… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We present a framework for controlling the observables of a general correlated electron
system driven by an incident laser field. The approach provides a prescription for the driving …