Engineering crystal structures with light

AS Disa, TF Nova, A Cavalleri - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
The crystal structure of a solid largely dictates its electronic, optical and mechanical
properties. Indeed, much of the exploration of quantum materials in recent years including …

Cuprate superconductors as viewed through a striped lens

JM Tranquada - Advances in Physics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Understanding the electron pairing in hole-doped cuprate superconductors has been a
challenge, in particular because the “normal” state from which it evolves is unprecedented …

Extreme tensile strain states in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 membranes

SS Hong, M Gu, M Verma, V Harbola, BY Wang, D Lu… - Science, 2020 - science.org
A defining feature of emergent phenomena in complex oxides is the competition and
cooperation between ground states. In manganites, the balance between metallic and …

Discovery of conjoined charge density waves in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5

H Li, G Fabbris, AH Said, JP Sun, YX Jiang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The electronic instabilities in CsV3Sb5 are believed to originate from the V 3 d-electrons on
the kagome plane, however the role of Sb 5 p-electrons for 3-dimensional orders is largely …

Charge correlations in cuprate superconductors

SM Hayden, JM Tranquada - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
High-temperature superconductivity, with transition temperatures up to≈ 134 K at ambient
pressure, occurs in layered cuprate compounds. The conducting CuO2 planes, which are …

van der Waals driven anharmonic melting of the 3D charge density wave in VSe2

J Diego, AH Said, SK Mahatha, R Bianco… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding of charge-density wave (CDW) phases is a main challenge in condensed
matter due to their presence in high-T c superconductors or transition metal dichalcogenides …

Magnetic excitations in strained infinite-layer nickelate PrNiO2 films

Q Gao, S Fan, Q Wang, J Li, X Ren, I Biało… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Strongly correlated materials respond sensitively to external perturbations such as strain,
pressure, and doping. In the recently discovered superconducting infinite-layer nickelates …

Unveiling unequivocal charge stripe order in a prototypical cuprate superconductor

J Choi, Q Wang, S Jöhr, NB Christensen, J Küspert… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
In the cuprates, high-temperature superconductivity, spin-density-wave order, and charge-
density-wave (CDW) order are intertwined, and symmetry determination is challenging due …

Spectroscopic fingerprint of charge order melting driven by quantum fluctuations in a cuprate

WS Lee, KJ Zhou, M Hepting, J Li, A Nag, AC Walters… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Copper oxide high-TC superconductors possess a number of exotic orders that coexist with
or are proximal to superconductivity. Quantum fluctuations associated with these orders may …

Hierarchy of Lifshitz Transitions in the Surface Electronic Structure of under Uniaxial Compression

E Abarca Morales, GR Siemann, A Zivanovic… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We report the evolution of the electronic structure at the surface of the layered perovskite Sr
2 RuO 4 under large in-plane uniaxial compression, leading to anisotropic B 1 g strains of ϵ …