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most citedUltrafast transient increase of oxygen octahedral rotations in a perovskite

20 citations · 32 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

physics.acc-ph2026

Broadband hard X-ray attosecond pulses from extremely chirped electron beams

River Robles, Veronica Guo, David Cesar +10

Attosecond pulses from free-electron lasers have opened the doors to atomic site-specific studies of bound electronic dynamics on their natural, sub-femtosecond timescales. Key to…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Nanoscale Ultrafast Lattice Modulation with Hard X-ray Free Electron Laser

Haoyuan Li, Nan Wang, Leon Zhang +24

Understanding and controlling microscopic dynamics across spatial and temporal scales has driven major progress in science and technology over the past several decades. While ultra…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 7 cited

Terahertz-field activation of polar skyrons

Huaiyu Wang, Vladimir Stoica, Cheng Dai +27

Unraveling collective modes arising from coupled degrees of freedom is crucial for understanding complex interactions in solids and developing new functionalities. Unique collectiv…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Dynamics of Nanoscale Phase Decomposition in Laser Ablation

Yanwen Sun, Chaobo Chen, Thies J. Albert +19

Femtosecond laser ablation is a process that bears both fundamental physics interest and has wide industrial applications. For decades, the lack of probes on the relevant time and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

In situ coherent X-ray scattering reveals polycrystalline structure and discrete annealing events in strongly-coupled nanocrystal superlattices

Matthew J. Hurley, Christian P. N. Tanner, Joshua Portner +13

Solution-phase bottom up self-assembly of nanocrystals into superstructures such as ordered superlattices is an attractive strategy to generate functional materials of increasing c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

Directly observing atomic-scale relaxations of a glass forming liquid using femtosecond X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy

Tomoki Fujita, Yanwen Sun, Haoyuan Li +25

Glass forming liquids exhibit structural relaxation behaviors, reflecting underlying atomic rearrangements on a wide range of timescales. These behaviors play a crucial role in det…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 20 cited

Ultrafast transient increase of oxygen octahedral rotations in a perovskite

M. Porer, M. Fechner, M. Kubli +13

The ability to control the structure of a crystalline solid on ultrafast timescales bears enormous potential for information storage and manipulation or generating new functional s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 1 cited

Femtosecond phase-transition in hard x-ray excited bismuth

M. Makita, I. Vartiainen, I. Mohacs +19

The evolution of the bismuth crystal structure upon excitation of its A phonon has been intensely studied with short pulse optical lasers. Here we present the first-time obs…