The interaction of ultra-fast sub-picosecond laser pulses with solids is a very broad area of
research. The boundaries for research fields covered by this review are defined as follows. A …

The advent of pump-probe spectroscopy techniques paved the way to the exploration of
ultrafast dynamics of electrons and phonons in crystalline solids. Following photo-absorption …

This review encompasses ultrafast laser interaction with matter in a broad range of
intensities~ 10 10–10 15 W/cm 2. We consider the material transformation processes …

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are π-conjugated, quasi-one-dimensional
structures consisting of rolled-up graphene sheets that, depending on their chirality, behave …

We show using molecular dynamics simulation that spatial confinement of water inside
carbon nanotubes (CNTs) substantially increases its boiling temperature and that a small …

In this paper, we present a novel theoretical approach, which allows the study of
nonequilibrium dynamics of both electrons and atoms/ions within free-electron laser excited …

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are cylindrical graphitic molecules that have
remained at the forefront of nanomaterials research since 1991, largely due to their …

This two-volume work covers ultrafast structural and electronic dynamics of elementary
processes at solid surfaces and interfaces, presenting the current status of photoinduced …

We compute laser-induced interactions between coherent phonons in bismuth and
demonstrate that they are key to understanding important experiments performed with …

The electron and hole relaxation in the (7, 0) zigzag carbon nanotube is simulated in time
domain using a surface-hopping Kohn-Sham density functional theory. Following a …