Emerging ultrafast techniques for studying quantum materials

A Zong, BR Nebgen, SC Lin, JA Spies… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In quantum materials, emergent functional properties resulting from strong correlations or
electronic topology offer opportunities for new applications. Over the past decade, ultrafast …

Attosecond spectroscopy for the investigation of ultrafast dynamics in atomic, molecular and solid-state physics

R Borrego-Varillas, M Lucchini… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the first demonstration of the generation of attosecond pulses (1 as= 10− 18 s) in the
extreme-ultraviolet spectral region, several measurement techniques have been introduced …

Field-driven attosecond charge dynamics in germanium

G Inzani, L Adamska, A Eskandari-asl, N Di Palo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The possibility to excite and control charges in matter on ultrafast timescales is a key
requisite to overcome the current limits of information transfer and data processing. The …

Unravelling the intertwined atomic and bulk nature of localised excitons by attosecond spectroscopy

M Lucchini, SA Sato, GD Lucarelli, B Moio… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The electro-optical properties of most semiconductors and insulators of technological
interest are dominated by the presence of electron-hole quasi-particles, called excitons. The …

Attosecond time-domain measurement of core-level-exciton decay in magnesium oxide

R Géneaux, CJ Kaplan, L Yue, AD Ross, JE Bækhøj… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
Excitation of ionic solids with extreme ultraviolet pulses creates localized core-level excitons,
which in some cases couple strongly to the lattice. Here, core-level-exciton states of …

Divergence and efficiency optimization in polarization-controlled two-color high-harmonic generation

SDC Roscam Abbing, F Campi, A Zeltsi… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Improving the brightness of high-harmonic generation (HHG) sources is one of the major
goals for next-generation ultrafast, imaging and metrology applications in the extreme …

Polarization-Resolved Extreme-Ultraviolet Second-Harmonic Generation from

CB Uzundal, S Jamnuch, E Berger, C Woodahl… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Second harmonic generation (SHG) spectroscopy ubiquitously enables the investigation of
surface chemistry, interfacial chemistry, as well as symmetry properties in solids …

Small polarons and surface defects in metal oxide photocatalysts studied using XUV reflection–absorption spectroscopy

S Bandaranayake, E Hruska, S Londo… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In photocatalytic transition metal oxides, the surface electronic structure and carrier kinetics
are complicated by both charge trapping at defects and self-trapping by small polaron …

Extreme ultraviolet reflection–absorption spectroscopy: Probing dynamics at surfaces from a molecular perspective

S Biswas, LR Baker - Accounts of chemical research, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Extreme ultraviolet light sources based on high harmonic generation are
enabling the development of novel spectroscopic methods to help advance the frontiers of …

Time-resolved ARPES signal in pumped semiconductors within the dynamical projective operatorial approach

A Eskandari-asl, A Avella - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
In this manuscript, after discussing in detail the internals of our recently developed method,
the dynamical projective operatorial approach (DPOA), we provide the framework to apply …