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most citedUltrafast melting of a charge-density wave in the Mott insulator 1T-TaS2

193 citations · 336 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

ToF-PAX-RIXS: A Time-of-Flight Spectrometer for combined ARPES and RIXS

Chafic Fawaz, Tom Lacmannn, Yaryna Lytvynenko +24

We present ToF-PAX-RIXS, a compact instrument that combines time-of-flight momentum-microscopy angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) with resonant inelastic X-ray scatt…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 4 cited

A compact approach to higher-resolution resonant inelastic X-ray scattering detection using photoelectrons

Jan O. Schunck, Jens Buck, Robin Y. Engel +11

The detection of inelastically scattered soft X-rays with high energy resolution usually requires large grating spectrometers. Recently, photoelectron spectrometry for analysis of…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 11 cited

Photo-induced charge-transfer renormalization in NiO

Tobias Lojewski, Denis Golez, Katharina Ollefs +21

Photo-doped states in strongly correlated charge transfer insulators are characterized by - and - interactions and the resulting intertwined dynamics of charge excitati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 2 cited

Femtosecond concerted rotation of molecules on a 2D material interface

Kiana Baumgärtner, Misa Nozaki, Marvin Reuner +20

Interfaces between molecules and 2D materials exhibit energy-driven functionalities, wherein charge transfer directs molecular motion. Unlike equilibrium systems, where molecular a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 7 cited

A Rate Model of Electron Populations for Non-linear High-Fluence X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Spectra

Robin Y. Engel, Markus Scholz, Jan O. Schunck +1

Absorbing a focused, femtosecond X-ray pulse from a Free-Electron Laser (FEL) can lead to extreme electronic excitations in solids. This excitation drives changes of the electronic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 7 cited

Electron Dynamics at High-Energy Densities in Nickel from Non-linear Resonant X-ray Absorption Spectra

Robin Y. Engel, Oliver Alexander, Kaan Atak +40

The pulse intensity from X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) can create extreme excitation densities in solids, entering the regime of non-linear X-ray-matter interactions. We show L…

physics.acc-ph2022

Two-color operation of a soft x-ray FEL with alternation of undulator tunes

E. A. Schneidmiller, I. J. Bermudez Macias, M. Beye +13

FLASH is the first soft X-ray FEL user facility, routinely providing brilliant photon beams for users since 2005. The second undulator branch of this facility, FLASH2, is gap-tunab…

physics.ins-det2022★ 20 cited

Photon shot-noise limited transient absorption soft X-ray spectroscopy at the European XFEL

Loïc Le Guyader, Andrea Eschenlohr, Martin Beye +61

Femtosecond transient soft X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) is a very promising technique that can be employed at X-ray Free Electron Lasers (FELs) to investigate out-of-equilib…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 3 cited

Atom-Specific Probing of Electron Dynamics in an Atomic Adsorbate by Time-Resolved X-ray Spectroscopy

Simon Schreck, Elias Diesen, Martina Dell'Angela +25

The electronic excitation occurring on adsorbates at ultrafast time scales from optical lasers that initiate surface chemical reactions is still an open question. Here, we report t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 24 cited

The interplay of local electron correlations and ultrafast spin dynamics in fcc Ni

Tobias Lojewski, Mohamed F. Elhanoty, Loïc Le Guyader +48

The complex electronic structure of metallic ferromagnets is determined by a balance between exchange interaction, electron hopping leading to band formation, and local Coulomb rep…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 19 cited

Ultrafast manipulation of the NiO antiferromagnetic order via sub-gap optical excitation

Xiaocui Wang, Robin Y. Engel, Igor Vaskivskyi +19

Wide-band-gap insulators such as NiO offer the exciting prospect of coherently manipulating electronic correlations with strong optical fields. Contrary to metals where rapid depha…

physics.app-ph2021

Probing electron and hole co-localization by resonant four-wave mixing in the extreme-ultraviolet

Horst Rottke, Robin Y. Engel, Daniel Schick +11

The extension of nonlinear spectroscopic techniques into the x-ray domain is in its infancy but holds the promise to provide unique insight into the dynamics of charges in photoexc…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 17 cited

Ultrafast adsorbate excitation probed with sub-ps resolution XAS

Elias Diesen, Hsin-Yi Wang, Simon Schreck +24

We use a pump-probe scheme to measure the time evolution of the C K-edge X-ray absorption spectrum (XAS) from CO/Ru(0001) after excitation by an ultrashort high-intensity optical l…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Optical control of 4f orbital state in rare-earth metals

N. Thielemann-Kühn, T. Amrhein, W. Bronsch +28

A change of orbital state alters the coupling between ions and their surroundings drastically. Orbital excitations are hence key to understand and control interaction of ions. Rare…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 5 cited

Ultrafast modification of the electronic structure of a correlated insulator

O. Grånäs I. Vaskivskyi, X. Wang, P. Thunström +25

A non-trivial balance between Coulomb repulsion and kinematic effects determines the electronic structure of correlated electron materials. The use electromagnetic fields strong en…

physics.ins-det2020★ 3 cited

Balanced Detection in Femtosecond X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy to Reach the Ultimate Sensitivity Limit

W. F. Schlotter, M. Beye, S. Zohar +21

X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a powerful and well established technique with sensitivity to elemental and chemical composition. Despite these advantages, its implementatio…

physics.optics2018★ 21 cited

Ghost Imaging at an XUV Free-Electron Laser

Young Yong Kim, Luca Gelisio, Giuseppe Mercurio +18

Radiation damage is one of the most severe resolution limiting factors in x-ray imaging, especially relevant to biological samples. One way of circumventing this problem is to expl…

cond-mat.str-el2010★ 193 cited

Ultrafast melting of a charge-density wave in the Mott insulator 1T-TaS2

S. Hellmann, M. Beye, C. Sohrt +11

Femtosecond time-resolved core-level photoemission spectroscopy with a free-electron laser is used to measure the atomic-site specific charge-order dynamics in the charge-density-w…