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20162026
most citedUltrafast spin density wave transition in Chromium governed by thermalized electron gas

25 citations · 124 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

physics.optics2026

Probing the formation of femtosecond laser-induced periodic surface structures on silica films by ultrafast small-angle X-ray scattering

Dominik Kaczmarek, Jean-Luc Déziel, Thies Johannes Albert +16

Ultrashort X-ray pulses, as provided by X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs), offer unique opportunities to probe the formation of laser-induced nanostructures with sizes even below…

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.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.mtrl-sci2024

Analysis of long-lived effects in high-repetition-rate stroboscopic transient X-ray absorption experiments on thin films

Tobias Lojewski, Loïc Le Guyader, Naman Agarwal +41

Time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy (tr-XAS) has been shown to be a versatile measurement technique for investigating non-equilibrium dynamics. Novel X-ray free electron la…

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.mes-hall2023★ 3 cited

Femtosecond spin-state switching dynamics of spin-crossover molecules condensed in thin films

Lea Kämmerer, Gérald Kämmerer, Manuel Gruber +22

The photoinduced switching of Fe(II)-based spin-crossover complexes from singlet to quintet takes place at ultrafast time scales. This a priori spin-forbidden transition triggered…

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★ 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.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…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 1 cited

Monochromatic operation of the SASE3 soft X-ray beamline at European XFEL

N. Gerasimova, D. La Civita, L. Samoylova +15

The SASE3 soft X-ray beamline at the European XFEL has been designed and built to provide experiments with pink or monochromatic beam in the photon energy range 250 eV - 3000 eV. H…

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.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.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.str-el2016★ 25 cited

Ultrafast spin density wave transition in Chromium governed by thermalized electron gas

C. W. Nicholson, C. Monney, R. Carley +4

The energy and momentum selectivity of time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy is exploited to address the ultrafast dynamics of the antiferromagnetic spin density wave…