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Publications (39)

cond-mat.str-el2016

Probing inter- and intrachain Zhang-Rice excitons in LiCuO and determining their binding energy

Claude Monney, Valentina Bisogni, Ke-Jin Zhou +8

Cuprate materials, like those hosting high temperature superconductivity, represent a famous class of materials where the correlations between the strongly entangled charges and sp…

cond-mat.str-el2011

Two-Spinon and Orbital Excitations of the Spin-Peierls System TiOCl

Sebastian Glawion, Jakoba Heidler, Maurits W. Haverkort +8

We combine high-resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering with cluster calculations utilizing a recently derived effective magnetic scattering operator to analyze the polariza…

cond-mat.other2008

Elementary structural building blocks encountered in silicon surface reconstructions

Corsin Battaglia, Katalin Gaal-Nagy, Claude Monney +5

Driven by the reduction of dangling bonds and the minimization of surface stress, reconstruction of silicon surfaces leads to a striking diversity of outcomes. Despite this variety…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Electronic band structure reconstruction in NiZrTe

Pedro H. A. Moya, Marli R. Cantarino, Lucas E. Correa +6

The filling of the large van der Waals gap in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) often leads to lattice and electronic instabilities, which prelude the onset of a rich phenome…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Persistence of structural distortion and bulk band Rashba splitting in SnTe above its ferroelectric critical temperature

Frédéric Chassot, Aki Pulkkinen, Geoffroy Kremer +8

The ferroelectric semiconductor -SnTe has been regarded as a topological crystalline insulator and the dispersion of its surface states has been intensively measured with angle…

cond-mat.str-el2022

Modified interlayer stacking and insulator to correlated-metal transition driven by uniaxial strain in 1-TaS

Christopher W. Nicholson, Francesco Petocchi, Björn Salzmann +6

Interlayer coupling is strongly implicated in the complex electronic properties of 1-TaS , but the interplay between this and electronic correlations remains unresolved. Her…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Conduction Band Structure and Ultrafast Dynamics of Ferroelectric -GeTe(111)

Geoffroy Kremer, Laurent Nicolaï, Frédéric Chassot +9

-GeTe(111) is a non-centrosymmetric ferroelectric (FE) material for which a significative lattice distortion combined with a strong spin-orbit interaction gives rise to giant R…

cond-mat.str-el2012

Determining the Short-Range Spin Correlations in Cuprate Chain Materials with Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering

Claude Monney, Valentina Bisogni, Ke Jin Zhou +13

We report a high-resolution resonant inelastic soft x-ray scattering study of the quantum magnetic spin-chain materials Li2CuO2 and CuGeO3. By tuning the incoming photon energy to…

cond-mat.str-el2012

Three-Dimensional Fermiology by Soft-X-Ray ARPES: Origin of Charge Density Waves in VSe2

Vladimir N. Strocov, Ming Shi, Masaki Kobayashi +7

Electronic structure of crystalline materials is their fundamental characteristic which is the basis of almost all their physical and chemical properties. Angle-resolved photoemiss…

cond-mat.str-el2013

Femtosecond dynamics of magnetic excitations from resonant inelastic x-ray scattering in CaCu2O3

Valentina Bisogni, Stefanos Kourtis, Claude Monney +10

Taking spinon excitations in the quantum antiferromagnet CaCu2O3 as an example, we demonstrate that femtosecond dynamics of magnetic excitations can be probed by direct resonant in…

cond-mat.str-el2016

Orbital breathing effects in the computation of x-ray d-ion spectra in solids by ab initio wave-function-based methods

Nikolay A. Bogdanov, Valentina Bisogni, Roberto Kraus +8

In existing theoretical approaches to core-level excitations of transition-metal ions in solids relaxation and polarization effects due to the inner core hole are often ignored or…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Revealing electronic correlations in YNiBC using photoemission spectroscopy

Aki Pulkkinen, Geoffroy Kremer, Vladimir N. Strocov +3

We present a combined density functional theory (DFT), one-step model of photoemission, and soft x-ray angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (SX-ARPES) study of the electronic…

cond-mat.str-el2023

Observation of the metallic mosaic phase in 1-TaS at equilibrium

Björn Salzmann, Elina Hujala, Catherine Witteveen +5

The transition-metal dichalcogenide tantalum disulphide (1-TaS) hosts a commensurate charge density wave (CCDW) at temperatures below 165~K where it also becomes insulating.…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Disorder-induced damping of spin excitations in Cr-doped BaFeAs

Marli R. Cantarino, Rafael M. P. Teixeira, R. Pakuszewski +9

In doped Hund's metals, such as the iron-based superconductors, effects like charge doping and chemical pressure are often considered the dominant factors. Partial chemical substit…

cond-mat.other2008

Atomically precise Si(331)-(12x1) surfaces

Corsin Battaglia, Claude Monney, Clement Didiot +4

Si(331)-(12x1) is the only confirmed planar silicon surface with a stable reconstruction located between (111) and (110). We have optimized the annealing sequence and are able to o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Field-induced ultrafast modulation of Rashba coupling at room temperature in ferroelectric -GeTe(111)

Geoffroy Kremer, Julian Maklar, Laurent Nicolaï +11

Rashba materials have appeared as an ideal playground for spin-to-charge conversion in prototype spintronics devices. Among them, -GeTe(111) is a non-centrosymmetric ferroelect…

cond-mat.str-el2018

Inhibition of the photoinduced structural phase transition in the excitonic insulator TaNiSe

Selene Mor, Marc Herzog, Johannes Noack +7

Femtosecond time-resolved mid-infrared reflectivity is used to investigate the electron and phonon dynamics occurring at the direct band gap of the excitonic insulator TaNiSe$_…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Suppression of stripe-ordered structural phases in monolayer IrTe by a gold substrate

Kati Asikainen, Frédéric Chassot, Baptiste Hildebrand +12

Metal-assisted exfoliation of two-dimensional (2D) materials has emerged as an efficient route to isolating large-area monolayer crystals, yet the influence of the supporting metal…

cond-mat.str-el2020

Role of a higher dimensional interaction in stabilizing charge density waves in quasi-1D NbSe revealed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

Christopher W. Nicholson, Eike F. Schwier, Kenya Shimada +4

We revisit charge density wave (CDW) behavior in the archetypal quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) material NbSe by high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy meas…

cond-mat.str-el2022

Precursor phase with full phonon softening above the charge-density-wave phase transition in -TaSe

Xingchen Shen, Rolf Heid, Roland Hott +8

Research on charge-density-wave (CDW) ordered transition-metal dichalcogenides continues to unravel new states of quantum matter correlated to the intertwined lattice and electroni…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Ultrafast dynamics of excitons in black phosphorus

Geoffroy Kremer, Juan F. P. Mosquera, Joël Morf +9

Excitons are key quasiparticles determining the optical properties of solids. As such, they can be utilized to coherently control the electronic structure of materials using optica…

cond-mat.str-el2017

Dimensional Crossover in a Charge Density Wave Material Probed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Christopher W. Nicholson, Christophe Berthod, Michele Puppin +4

High-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) data reveal evidence of a crossover from one-dimensional (1D) to three-dimensional (3D) behavior in the prototypic…

cond-mat.str-el2022

Ultrafast charge carrier and exciton dynamics in an excitonic insulator probed by time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

Selene Mor, Marc Herzog, Claude Monney +1

An excitonic insulator phase is expected to arise from the spontaneous formation of electron-hole pairs (excitons) in semiconductors where the exciton binding energy exceeds the si…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Break of symmetry at the surface of IrTe upon phase transition measured by X-ray photoelectron diffraction

Maxime Rumo, Aki Pulkkinen, KeYuan Ma +3

IrTe undergoes a series of charge-ordered phase transitions below room temperature that are characterized by the formation of stripes of Ir dimers of different periodicities. F…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Generation and evolution of spin-, valley- and layer-polarized excited carriers in inversion-symmetric WSe2

Roman Bertoni, Christopher W. Nicholson, Lutz Waldecker +11

Manipulation of spin and valley degrees of freedom is a key step towards realizing novel quantum technologies, for which atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) ha…

cond-mat.str-el2015

Orbital control of effective dimensionality: from spin-orbital fractionalization to confinement in the anisotropic ladder system CaCu2O3

Valentina Bisogni, Krzysztof Wohlfeld, Satoshi Nishimoto +11

Fractionalization of an electronic quasiparticle into spin, charge and orbital parts is a fundamental and characteristic property of interacting electrons in one dimension. However…

cond-mat.str-el2017

Ultrafast Electronic Band Gap Control in an Excitonic Insulator

Selene Mor, Marc Herzog, Denis Golež +8

We report on the nonequilibrium dynamics of the electronic structure of the layered semiconductor TaNiSe investigated by time- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy…

cond-mat.str-el2019

Anisotropic magnetic excitations and incipient Néel order in Ba(FeMn)As

Fernando A. Garcia, Oleh Ivashko, Daniel E. McNally +7

It is currently understood that high temperature superconductivity (SC) in the transition metal substituted iron arsenides Ba(Fe)As is promoted b…

cond-mat.supr-con2023

Incoherent electronic band states in Mn-substituted BaFeAs

Marli R. Cantarino, Kevin R. Pakuszewski, Björn Salzmann +8

Chemical substitution is commonly used to explore new ground states in materials, yet the role of disorder is often overlooked. In Mn-substituted BaFeAs (MnBFA), superc…

cond-mat.str-el2020

Novel Cu-based dz2 order at a YBa2Cu3O7/ manganite interface

Roxana Gaina, Christopher W. Nicholson, Maxime Rumo +12

The interplay of nearly degenerate orders in quantum materials can lead to a myriad of emergent phases. A prominent case is that of the high-Tc cuprates for which the relationship…

cond-mat.other2008

A new structural model for the Si(331)-(12x1) reconstruction

Corsin Battaglia, Katalin Gaal-Nagy, Claude Monney +5

A new structural model for the Si(331)-(12x1) reconstruction is proposed. Based on scanning tunneling microscopy images of unprecedented resolution, low-energy electron diffraction…

cond-mat.str-el2022

Mott versus hybridization gap in the low-temperature phase of -TaS

Francesco Petocchi, Christopher W. Nicholson, Bjoern Salzmann +4

We compute the correlated electronic structure of stacked -TaS bilayers using the + EDMFT method. Depending on the surface termination, the semi-infinite uncorrelated…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Detection of Image Potential States above the vacuum level in GeTe

Frédéric Chassot, Aki Pulkkinen, Ján Minár +3

The ferroelectric semiconductor α-GeTe(111) has attracted significant attention in the last decade due to its unique properties, with extensive studies focusing on its occupied el…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Misfit layer compounds: a platform for heavily-doped two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

Raphaël T. Leriche, Alexandra Palacio-Morales, Marco Campetella +14

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) display a rich variety of instabilities such as spin and charge orders, Ising superconductivity and topological properties. Their physical p…

cond-mat.supr-con2023

Protection of Ising spin-orbit coupling in bulk misfit superconductors

Tomas Samuely, Darshana Wickramaratne, Martin Gmitra +16

Low-dimensional materials have remarkable properties that are distinct from their bulk counterparts. A paradigmatic example is Ising superconductivity that occurs in monolayer mate…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Composite antiferromagnetic and orbital order with altermagnetic properties at a cuprate/manganite interface

Subhrangsu Sarkar, Roxana Capu, Yurii G. Pashkevich +12

Heterostructures from complex oxides allow one to combine various electronic and magnetic orders as to induce new quantum states. A prominent example is the coupling between superc…

cond-mat.str-el2015

Electron-lattice interactions strongly renormalize the charge transfer energy in the spin-chain cuprate LiCuO

Steve Johnston, Claude Monney, Valentina Bisogni +9

Strongly correlated insulators are broadly divided into two classes: Mott-Hubbard insulators, where the insulating gap is driven by the Coulomb repulsion on the transition-meta…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012

Scanning tunneling microscopy at multiple voltage biases of stable "ring-like" Ag clusters on Si(111)-(77)

Nicolas Mariotti, Clément Didiot, Eike F Schwier +5

Since more than twenty years it is known that deposition of Ag onto Si(111)-(7\times7) leads under certain conditions to the formation of so-called "ring-like" clusters, that are p…

cond-mat.supr-con2022

Electron-momentum dependence of electron-phonon coupling underlies dramatic phonon renormalization in YNiBC

Philipp Kurzhals, Geoffroy Kremer, Thomas Jaouen +12

Electron-phonon coupling, i.e., the scattering of lattice vibrations by electrons and vice versa, is ubiquitous in solids and can lead to emergent ground states such as superconduc…