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20192025
most citedUltrafast X-Ray Induced Changes of the Electronic and Magnetic Response of Solids Due to Valence Electron Redistribution

42 citations · 119 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Picosecond localization dynamics following ultrafast nanoscale magnetic switching

Daniel Metternich, Michael Schneider, Giuseppe Mercurio +28

Ultrashort laser pulses provide the fastest known way to switch magnetic order. Such excitation commonly creates nanometer-scale domains, even after homogeneous illumination when t…

physics.ins-det2025

High frame rate RIXS spectroscopy using a JUNGFRAU detector with an iLGAD sensor

Nuno Duarte, Loïc Le Guyader, Viktoria Hinger +17

Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) is a powerful photon-in, photon-out spectroscopy technique for probing electronic, magnetic, and lattice excitations in matter. Time-reso…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Collective Magnetic Excitations in a Photo-excited Electron-doped Cuprate Superconductor

Daniel Jost, Jiarui Li, Jordyn Hales +21

Elucidating the microscopic behavior of cuprates under ultrafast photoexcitation offers critical insights into their highly correlated out-of-equilibrium states. Although quasipart…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Photo-generated charge-transfer excitons in NiO revealed by ultrafast time-resolved resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

Giacomo Merzoni, Leonardo Martinelli, Sergii Parchenko +32

Strong electronic correlation can lead to insulating behavior and to the opening of large optical gaps, even in materials with partly filled valence shells. Although the non-equili…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 10 cited

Ultrafast decoupling of polarization and strain in ferroelectric BaTiO

Le Phuong Hoang, David Pesquera, Gerard N. Hinsley +20

A fundamental understanding of the interplay between lattice structure, polarization and electrons is pivotal to the optical control of ferroelectrics. The interaction between ligh…

cond-mat.str-el2024

The Heisenberg-RIXS instrument at the European XFEL

Justine Schlappa, Giacomo Ghiringhelli, Benjamin E. Van Kuiken +44

Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) is an ideal X-ray spectroscopy method to push the combination of energy and time resolutions to the Fourier transform ultimate limit, bec…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 5 cited

Transient non-collinear magnetic state for all-optical magnetization switching

Sergii Parchenko, Antoni Frej, Hiroki Ueda +12

Resonant absorption of a photon by bound electrons in a solid can promote an electron to another orbital state or transfer it to a neighboring atomic site. Such a transition in a m…

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.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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 11 cited

Megahertz-rate Ultrafast X-ray Scattering and Holographic Imaging at the European XFEL

Nanna Zhou Hagström, Michael Schneider, Nico Kerber +97

The advent of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) has revolutionized fundamental science, from atomic to condensed matter physics, from chemistry to biology, giving researchers acce…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 1 cited

Symmetry-dependent ultrafast manipulation of nanoscale magnetic domains

Nanna Zhou Hagström, Rahul Jangid, Meera +25

Symmetry is a powerful concept in physics, but its applicability to far-from-equilibrium states is still being understood. Recent attention has focused on how far-from-equilibrium…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Non-equilibrium self-assembly of spin-wave solitons in FePt nanoparticles

D. Turenne, A. Yaroslavtsev, X. Wang +36

Magnetic nanoparticles such as FePt in the L10-phase are the bedrock of our current data storage technology. As the grains become smaller to keep up with technological demands, the…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 16 cited

Unraveling higher-order corrections in the spin dynamics of RIXS spectra

Umesh Kumar, Abhishek Nag, Jiemin Li +9

Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) is an evolving tool for investigating spin dynamics of strongly correlated materials, which complements inelastic neutron scattering. Bot…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 42 cited

Ultrafast X-Ray Induced Changes of the Electronic and Magnetic Response of Solids Due to Valence Electron Redistribution

Daniel J. Higley, Alex H. Reid, Zhao Chen +13

We report a novel mechanism, consisting of redistribution of valence electrons near the Fermi level, during interactions of intense femtosecond X-ray pulses with a Co/Pd multilayer…