Terahertz control of many-body dynamics in quantum materials

CJ Yang, J Li, M Fiebig, S Pal - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum-mechanical phenomena underpin the behaviour of quantum materials at the
microscopic level. The description of several essential properties of these materials …

Nonlinear optical physics at terahertz frequency

Y Lu, Y Huang, J Cheng, R Ma, X Xu, Y Zang, Q Wu… - …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Terahertz (THz) waves have exhibited promising prospects in 6G/7G communications,
sensing, nondestructive detection, material modulation, and biomedical applications. With …

Revealing Novel Aspects of Light-Matter Coupling by Terahertz Two-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy: The Case of the Amplitude Mode in Superconductors

K Katsumi, J Fiore, M Udina, R Romero III… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Recently developed terahertz (THz) two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy (2DCS) is a
powerful technique to obtain materials information in a fashion qualitatively different from …

Linear and nonlinear current response in disordered -wave superconductors

L Benfatto, C Castellani, G Seibold - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We present a detailed theoretical investigation of the linear and nonlinear optical response
in a model system for a disordered d-wave superconductor. By evaluating the quasiparticle …

Terahertz third harmonic generation in -axis

K Kaj, KA Cremin, I Hammock, J Schalch, DN Basov… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Terahertz nonlinear optics is a viable method to interrogate collective phenomena in
quantum materials spanning ferroelectrics, charge-density waves, and superconductivity. In …

THz non-linear optical response in cuprates: predominance of the BCS response over the Higgs mode

M Udina, J Fiore, T Cea, C Castellani, G Seibold… - Faraday …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent experiments with strong THz fields in unconventional cuprate superconductors have
clearly evidenced an increase of the non-linear optical response below the superconducting …

Dynamical interplay between superconductivity and pseudogap in cuprates as revealed by terahertz third-harmonic generation spectroscopy

J Yuan, L Shi, L Yue, B Li, Z Wang, S Xu, T Xu… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
We report on nonlinear terahertz third-harmonic generation (THG) measurements on
YBa2Cu3O6+ x thin films. Different from conventional superconductors, the THG signal …

Dynamical interplay between superconductivity and charge density waves: A nonlinear terahertz study of coherently driven

L Feng, J Cao, T Priessnitz, Y Dai, T de Oliveira, J Yuan… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
2 H-NbS e 2 is an archetypal system in which superconductivity and charge density wave
(CDW) coexist and compete macroscopically with each other. In particular, this interplay also …

Optically Tunable Many‐Body Exciton‐Phonon Quantum Interference

SJ Chang, PC Huang, JS Su, YW Hsieh… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study introduces a novel paradigm for achieving widely tunable many‐body Fano
quantum interference in low‐dimensional semiconducting nanostructures, beyond the …

Giant THz Nonlinearity in Topological and Trivial HgTe-Based Heterostructures

TA Uaman Svetikova, TVAG de Oliveira… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nonlinear phenomena in the THz spectral domain are important for understanding the
optoelectronic properties of quantum systems and provide a basis for modern information …