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20202026
most citedDirect observation of Floquet-Bloch states in monolayer graphene

54 citations · 240 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Antiferromagnetism-altered plasmon dynamics

Yifan Su, Suheng Xu, Rocco A. Vitalone +17

The interaction between plasmons and magnons is a long-sought phenomenon with implications for fundamental physics and spintronics applications. In three-dimensional systems, this…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Sublattice-resolved coherent phonon dynamics in charge density waves

Kyoung Hun Oh, Honglie Ning, Zongqi Shen +15

Phonons govern fundamental material properties and play a central role in various electronic phase transitions. Coherent driving of specific phonon modes enables on-demand phase co…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Room-temperature multistage metastability in a moiré superstructure

B. Q. Lv, Yifan Su, Alfred Zong +16

Metastability is fundamental not only to phase ordering and transitions, but also to a broad range of modern technologies, from memory devices to metallic glasses. In condensed-mat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Atomically Resolved Acoustic Dynamics Coupled with Magnetic Order in a van der Waals Antiferromagnet

Faran Zhou, Kyle Hwangbo, Sung Soo Ha +22

Magnetoelastic coupling in van der Waals (vdW) magnetic materials enables a unique interplay between the spin and lattice degrees of freedom. Characterizing the elastic responses w…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 2 cited

Bidirectional ultrafast control of charge density waves via phase competition

Honglie Ning, Kyoung Hun Oh, Yifan Su +17

The intricate competition between coexisting charge density waves (CDWs) can lead to rich phenomena, offering unique opportunities for phase manipulation through electromagnetic st…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Dynamics of a jointly commensurate moiré charge density wave

Kyoung Hun Oh, Yifan Su, Honglie Ning +23

The advent of two-dimensional moiré systems has revolutionized the exploration of phenomena arising from strong correlations and nontrivial band topology. Recently, a moiré superst…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Time-domain identification of distinct mechanisms for competing charge density waves in a rare-earth tritelluride

Yifan Su, B. Q. Lv, Alfred Zong +11

Understanding the origin of phase transitions and the interactions between distinct phases remains a central task in condensed matter physics. Charge density wave (CDW) systems pro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Discovery of transient topological crystalline order in optically driven SnSe

Masataka Mogi, Dongsung Choi, Kyoung Hun Oh +13

Ultrafast optical excitation provides a powerful route for accessing emergent quantum phases far from equilibrium, enabling transient light-induced phenomena such as magnetism, fer…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 5 cited

Large moiré superstructure of stacked incommensurate charge density waves

B. Q. Lv, Yifan Su, Alfred Zong +10

Recent advances in van der Waals heterostructures have opened the new frontier of moiré physics, whereby tuning the interlayer twist angle or adjusting lattice parameter mismatch h…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 9 cited

Direct observation of a photoinduced topological phase transition in Bi-doped (Pb,Sn)Se

Masataka Mogi, Dongsung Choi, Louis Primeau +6

Ultrafast photoexcitation offers a novel approach to manipulating quantum materials. One of the long-standing goals in this field is to achieve optical control over topological pro…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 1 cited

Good plasmons in a bad metal

Francesco L. Ruta, Yinming Shao, Swagata Acharya +12

Correlated materials may exhibit unusually high resistivity increasing linearly in temperature, breaking through the Mott-Ioffe-Regel bound, above which coherent quasiparticles are…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 54 cited

Direct observation of Floquet-Bloch states in monolayer graphene

Dongsung Choi, Masataka Mogi, Umberto De Giovannini +6

Floquet engineering is a novel method of manipulating quantum phases of matter via periodic driving [1, 2]. It has successfully been utilized in different platforms ranging from ph…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 9 cited

Coexistence of interacting charge density waves in a layered semiconductor

B. Q. Lv, Alfred Zong, Dong Wu +14

Coexisting orders are key features of strongly correlated materials and underlie many intriguing phenomena from unconventional superconductivity to topological orders. Here, we rep…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 11 cited

Dynamical decoding of the competition between charge density waves in a kagome superconductor

Honglie Ning, Kyoung Hun Oh, Yifan Su +13

The kagome superconductor CsVSb hosts a variety of charge density wave (CDW) phases, which play a fundamental role in the formation of other exotic electronic instabilities…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 10 cited

Room-temperature non-volatile optical manipulation of polar order in a charge density wave

Qiaomei Liu, Dong Wu, Tianyi Wu +19

Utilizing ultrafast light-matter interaction to manipulate electronic states of quantum materials is an emerging area of research in condensed matter physics. It has significant im…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 12 cited

Light-induced insulator-metal transition in SrIrO reveals the nature of the insulating ground state

Dongsung Choi, Changming Yue, Doron Azoury +11

SrIrO has attracted a lot of attention due to its structural and electronic similarities to LaCuO which is the parent compound of high-T superconducting cuprate…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 18 cited

Direct Observation of Collective Modes of the Charge Density Wave in the Kagome Metal CsVSb

Doron Azoury, Alexander von Hoegen, Yifan Su +8

A new group of kagome metals AVSb (A = K, Rb, Cs) exhibit a variety of intertwined unconventional electronic phases, which emerge from a puzzling charge density wave phase.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 30 cited

Dynamical criticality of spin-shear coupling in van der Waals antiferromagnets

Faran Zhou, Kyle Hwangbo, Qi Zhang +15

The interplay between a multitude of electronic, spin, and lattice degrees of freedom underlies the complex phase diagrams of quantum materials. Layer stacking in van der Waals (vd…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 33 cited

Role of equilibrium fluctuations in light-induced order

Alfred Zong, Pavel E. Dolgirev, Anshul Kogar +17

Engineering novel states of matter with light is at the forefront of materials research. An intensely studied direction is to realize broken-symmetry phases that are "hidden" under…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 39 cited

Unconventional hysteretic transition in a charge density wave

B. Q. Lv, Alfred Zong, D. Wu +25

Hysteresis underlies a large number of phase transitions in solids, giving rise to exotic metastable states that are otherwise inaccessible. Here, we report an unconventional hyste…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 7 cited

The spontaneous symmetry breaking in TaNiSe is structural in nature

Edoardo Baldini, Alfred Zong, Dongsung Choi +16

The excitonic insulator is an electronically-driven phase of matter that emerges upon the spontaneous formation and Bose condensation of excitons. Detecting this exotic order in ca…