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most citedLight-driven ultrafast phonomagnetism

258 citations · 766 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 2 cited

Photoengineering the Magnon Spectrum in an Insulating Antiferromagnet

V. Radovskaia, R. Andrei, J. R. Hortensius +9

Femtosecond optical pulses have opened a new frontier in ultrafast dynamics, enabling direct access to fundamental interactions in quantum materials. In antiferromagnets (AFMs), wh…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 26 cited

Controlling magnetism with light in a zero orbital angular momentum antiferromagnet

Mattias Matthiesen, Jorrit R. Hortensius, Samuel Mañas-Valero +6

Antiferromagnetic materials feature intrinsic ultrafast spin dynamics, making them ideal candidates for future magnonic devices operating at THz frequencies. A major focus of curre…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 35 cited

Coupling charge and topological reconstructions at polar oxide interfaces

T. C. van Thiel, W. Brzezicki, C. Autieri +11

In oxide heterostructures, different materials are integrated into a single artificial crystal, resulting in a breaking of inversion-symmetry across the heterointerfaces. A notable…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 183 cited

Coherent spin-wave transport in an antiferromagnet

J. R. Hortensius, D. Afanasiev, M. Matthiesen +6

Magnonics is a research field complementary to spintronics, in which the quanta of spin waves (magnons) replace electrons as information carriers, promising less energy dissipation…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 135 cited

Controlling the anisotropy of a van der Waals antiferromagnet with light

D. Afanasiev, J. R. Hortensius, M. Matthiesen +9

Magnetic van der Waals materials provide an ideal playground for exploring the fundamentals of low-dimensional magnetism and open new opportunities for ultrathin spin processing de…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 28 cited

Tunable shear strain from resonantly driven optical phonons

J. R. Hortensius, D. Afanasiev, A. Sasani +2

Strain engineering has been extended recently to the ultrafast timescales, driving metal-insulator phase transitions and the propagation of ultrasonic demagnetization fronts. Howev…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 258 cited

Light-driven ultrafast phonomagnetism

D. Afanasiev, J. R. Hortensius, B. A. Ivanov +6

Exciting atomic oscillations with light is a powerful technique to control the electronic properties of materials, leading to remarkable phenomena such as light-induced superconduc…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 99 cited

Berry phase engineering at oxide interfaces

D. J. Groenendijk, C. Autieri, T. C. van Thiel +10

Geometric phases in condensed matter play a central role in topological transport phenomena such as the quantum, spin and anomalous Hall effect (AHE). In contrast to the quantum Ha…