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 …

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 …

Hard X-ray free-electron laser with femtosecond-scale timing jitter

HS Kang, CK Min, H Heo, C Kim, H Yang, G Kim… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The hard X-ray free-electron laser at the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL-XFEL) in the
Republic of Korea achieved saturation of a 0.144 nm free-electron laser beam on 27 …

Resonant and nonresonant control over matter and light by intense terahertz transients

T Kampfrath, K Tanaka, KA Nelson - Nature Photonics, 2013 - nature.com
Electromagnetic radiation in the terahertz (THz) frequency range is a fascinating
spectroscopic tool that provides resonant access to fundamental modes, including the …

[HTML][HTML] Mega-electron-volt ultrafast electron diffraction at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

SP Weathersby, G Brown, M Centurion… - Review of Scientific …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrafast electron probes are powerful tools, complementary to x-ray free-electron lasers,
used to study structural dynamics in material, chemical, and biological sciences. High …

Ultrafast disordering of vanadium dimers in photoexcited VO2

S Wall, S Yang, L Vidas, M Chollet, JM Glownia… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Many ultrafast solid phase transitions are treated as chemical reactions that transform the
structures between two different unit cells along a reaction coordinate, but this neglects the …

Femtosecond x rays from laser-plasma accelerators

S Corde, K Ta Phuoc, G Lambert, R Fitour, V Malka… - Reviews of Modern …, 2013 - APS
Relativistic interaction of short-pulse lasers with underdense plasmas has recently led to the
emergence of a novel generation of femtosecond x-ray sources. Based on radiation from …

Bi‐based photocatalysts for light‐driven environmental and energy applications: Structural tuning, reaction mechanisms, and challenges

P Chen, H Liu, W Cui, SC Lee, L Wang, F Dong - EcoMat, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental pollution and energy crisis have become major challenges to sustainable
development of human society. Solar‐driven photocatalytic technology is regarded as an …

Femtosecond electron diffraction: heralding the era of atomically resolved dynamics

G Sciaini, RJD Miller - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the great dream experiments in Science is to directly observe atomic motions as they
occur. Femtosecond electron diffraction provided the first'light'of sufficient intensity to …

Attosecond spectroscopy in condensed matter

AL Cavalieri, N Müller, T Uphues, VS Yakovlev… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Comprehensive knowledge of the dynamic behaviour of electrons in condensed-matter
systems is pertinent to the development of many modern technologies, such as …