Photo-induced superconductivity

A Cavalleri - Contemporary Physics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Recent advances in laser technology have made it possible to generate of precisely shaped
strong-field pulses at terahertz frequencies. These pulses are especially useful to selectively …

An ideal Josephson junction in an ultracold two-dimensional Fermi gas

N Luick, L Sobirey, M Bohlen, VP Singh, L Mathey… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The role of reduced dimensionality in high-temperature superconductors is still under
debate. Recently, ultracold atoms have emerged as an ideal model system to study such …

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 …

Photoenhanced metastable c-axis electrodynamics in stripe-ordered cuprate La1.885Ba0.115CuO4

KA Cremin, J Zhang, CC Homes… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Quantum materials are amenable to nonequilibrium manipulation with light, enabling
modification and control of macroscopic properties. Light-based augmentation of …

Thermal Hall effect in noncollinear coplanar insulating antiferromagnets

A Mook, J Henk, I Mertig - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We establish theoretically a thermal Hall effect of collective magnetic excitations in
noncollinear but coplanar antiferromagnets. In agreement with superordinate symmetry …

Periodic dynamics in superconductors induced by an impulsive optical quench

PE Dolgirev, A Zong, MH Michael, JB Curtis… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
A number of experiments have evidenced signatures of enhanced superconducting
correlations after photoexcitation. Initially, these experiments were interpreted as resulting …

Generalized Josephson plasmons in bilayer superconductors

N Sellati, F Gabriele, C Castellani, L Benfatto - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Layered superconductors like high-T c cuprates display out-of-plane plasma oscillations
between layers sustained by the weak Josephson coupling among the superconducting …

Floquet dynamics in light-driven solids

M Nuske, L Broers, B Schulte, G Jotzu, SA Sato… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We demonstrate how the properties of light-induced electronic Floquet states in solids
impact natural physical observables, such as transport properties, by capturing the …

Amplification of Superconducting Fluctuations in Driven

A Von Hoegen, M Fechner, M Först, N Taherian… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
In cuprate high-T c superconductors, resonant excitation of certain lattice vibrations has
been shown to induce transient terahertz reflectivity features suggestive of nonequilibrium …

Higgs time crystal in a high- superconductor

G Homann, JG Cosme, L Mathey - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
We propose to induce a time-crystalline state in a high-T c superconductor, by optically
driving a sum resonance of the Higgs mode and a Josephson plasma mode. The generic …