Theory of resonantly enhanced photo-induced superconductivity

CJ Eckhardt, S Chattopadhyay, DM Kennes… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Optical driving of materials has emerged as a versatile tool to control their properties, with
photo-induced superconductivity being among the most fascinating examples. In this work …

Enhanced optical conductivity and many-body effects in strongly-driven photo-excited semi-metallic graphite

TPH Sidiropoulos, N Di Palo, DE Rivas… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The excitation of quasi-particles near the extrema of the electronic band structure is a
gateway to electronic phase transitions in condensed matter. In a many-body system, quasi …

Enhancing disorder-free localization through dynamically emergent local symmetries

JC Halimeh, L Homeier, H Zhao, A Bohrdt, F Grusdt… - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Disorder-free localization is a recently discovered phenomenon of nonergodicity that can
emerge in quantum many-body systems hosting gauge symmetries when the initial state is …

Robust quantum many-body scars in lattice gauge theories

JC Halimeh, L Barbiero, P Hauke, F Grusdt… - Quantum, 2023 - quantum-journal.org
Quantum many-body scarring is a paradigm of weak ergodicity breaking arising due to the
presence of special nonthermal many-body eigenstates that possess low entanglement …

Calibrating Out-of-Equilibrium Electron–Phonon Couplings in Photoexcited MoS2

XB Liu, SQ Hu, D Chen, M Guan, Q Chen, S Meng - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nonequilibrium electron–phonon coupling (EPC) serves as a dominant interaction in a
multitude of transient processes, including photoinduced phase transitions, coherent …

Efficient quantum simulation of electron-phonon systems by variational basis state encoder

W Li, J Ren, S Huai, T Cai, Z Shuai, S Zhang - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Digital quantum simulation of electron-phonon systems requires truncating infinite phonon
levels into N basis states and then encoding them with qubit computational basis. Unary …

Revealing ultrafast phonon mediated inter-valley scattering through transient absorption and high harmonic spectroscopies

K Lively, SA Sato, G Albareda, A Rubio, A Kelly - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Processes involving ultrafast laser driven electron-phonon dynamics play a fundamental
role in the response of quantum systems in a growing number of situations of interest, as …

Dynamical onset of light-induced unconventional superconductivity—a Yukawa-Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev study

L Grunwald, G Passetti, DM Kennes - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Using light irradiation to manipulate quantum materials has opened up avenues for
transiently inducing superconductivity in some systems. Despite experimental confirmation …

Laser-enhanced magnetism in

M Yarmohammadi, M Bukov, V Oganesyan… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We investigate the coherent enhancement of inherently weak magnetic interactions in rare-
earth orthoferrite SmFeO 3 as a functional material for spintronic applications using a …

Polaron with quadratic electron-phonon interaction

S Ragni, T Hahn, Z Zhang, N Prokof'ev, A Kuklov… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We present a numerically exact study of a polaron with quadratic coupling to the oscillator
displacement, or X 2 polaron, using two alternative methodological developments. Our …