The 2021 ultrafast spectroscopic probes of condensed matter roadmap

J Lloyd-Hughes, PM Oppeneer… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In the 60 years since the invention of the laser, the scientific community has developed
numerous fields of research based on these bright, coherent light sources, including the …

[HTML][HTML] Theoretical insights into ultrafast dynamics in quantum materials

M Guan, D Chen, S Hu, H Zhao, P You, S Meng - Ultrafast science, 2022 - spj.science.org
The last few decades have witnessed the extraordinary advances in theoretical and
experimental tools, which have enabled the manipulation and monitoring of ultrafast …

Direct identification of Mott Hubbard band pattern beyond charge density wave superlattice in monolayer 1T-NbSe2

L Liu, H Yang, Y Huang, X Song, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding Mott insulators and charge density waves (CDW) is critical for both
fundamental physics and future device applications. However, the relationship between …

Giant acceleration of polaron transport by ultrafast laser-induced coherent phonons

HM Wang, XB Liu, SQ Hu, DQ Chen, Q Chen… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Polaron formation is ubiquitous in polarized materials, but severely hampers carrier
transport for which effective controlling methods are urgently needed. Here, we show that …

Ultrafast charge ordering by self-amplified exciton–phonon dynamics in TiSe2

C Lian, SJ Zhang, SQ Hu, MX Guan, S Meng - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
The origin of charge density waves (CDWs) in TiSe 2 has long been debated, mainly due to
the difficulties in identifying the timescales of the excitonic pairing and electron–phonon …

Identification of the Mott Insulating Charge Density Wave State in

D Shin, N Tancogne-Dejean, J Zhang, MS Okyay… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We investigate the low-temperature charge density wave (CDW) state of bulk TaS 2 with a
fully self-consistent density-functional theory with the Hubbard U potential, over which the …

Snapshots of a light-induced metastable hidden phase driven by the collapse of charge order

FY Gao, Z Zhang, Z Sun, L Ye, YH Cheng, ZJ Liu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Nonequilibrium hidden states provide a unique window into thermally inaccessible regimes
of strong coupling between microscopic degrees of freedom in quantum materials …

Manipulating Weyl quasiparticles by orbital-selective photoexcitation in WTe2

MX Guan, E Wang, PW You, JT Sun, S Meng - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Optical control of structural and electronic properties of Weyl semimetals allows
development of switchable and dissipationless topological devices at the ultrafast scale. An …

Ab initio electronic structure calculations based on numerical atomic orbitals: Basic fomalisms and recent progresses

P Lin, X Ren, X Liu, L He - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The numerical atomic orbital (NAO) basis sets offer a computationally efficient option for
electronic structure calculations, as they require fewer basis functions compared with other …

First‐principles dynamics of photoexcited molecules and materials towards a quantum description

P You, D Chen, C Lian, C Zhang… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The past decades have witnessed the success of ground‐state density functional theory
capturing static electronic properties of various materials. However, for time dependent …