Transition metals, with their densely confined and strongly coupled valence electrons, are
key constituents of many materials with unconventional properties, such as high …

Femtosecond core-level transient absorption spectroscopy is utilized to investigate
photoinduced dynamics of the charge density wave in 1 T-TiSe 2 at the Ti M 2, 3 edge (32 …

Simulations in the warm dense matter regime using finite temperature Kohn-Sham density
functional theory (FT-KS-DFT), while frequently used, are computationally expensive due to …

Interaction of light with an excited free-electron gas is a fundamental process spanning a
large variety of fields in physics. The advent of femtosecond laser pulses and extreme …

High spatial frequency laser-induced periodic surface structures (high-spatial frequency
LIPSSs; HSFLs), being beyond the optical diffraction limit, have attracted great attention due …

We calculate the energy deposition by very short laser pulses in SiO 2 (α-quartz) with a view
to establishing systematics for predicting damage and nanoparticle production. The …

Understanding initial electron thermalization has relevance to both fundamental scientific
knowledge and application to the construction of novel devices. In this study, attosecond …

We use a time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to analyze nonequilibrium
dynamics of laser-excited electrons in transition metals (Ni, Cr, Cu) and shed light on the …

The coupling of light to electrical charge carriers in semiconductors is the foundation of
many technological applications. Attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy measures …

Among polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pyrene is widely used as an optical probe thanks
to its peculiar ultraviolet absorption and infrared emission features. Interestingly, this …