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most citedThe seeds and homogeneous nucleation of photoinduced nonthermal melting in semiconductors due to self-amplified local dynamic instability

47 citations · 169 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

A Route to Nonrelativistic Altermagnetic Spin Splitting via Ultrafast Light

Huang-Zhao-Xiang Chen, Lin-Ding Yuan, Wen-Hao Liu +3

We identify a nonequilibrium route for generating altermagnetic spin splitting in antiferromagnet by ultrafast light. Unlike existing strategies, this route does not require relati…

physics.optics2025

Enhancing Cutoff Energy of Solid High-Harmonic Generation from Bonding Length Perspective

Qing-Guo Fan, Kang Lai, Wen-hao Liu +3

High-harmonic generation (HHG) from solid state offers promising potential for attosecond optics with enhanced efficiency and compact configurations. However, Current implementatio…

physics.optics2025

Revealing Material-Dependent Bicircular High-Order Harmonic Generation in 2D Semiconductors via Real-Space Trajectories

Qing-Guo Fan, Kang Lai, Wen-hao Liu +3

Solid-state high-order harmonic generation (HHG) presents unique features different from gases.Whereas the gaseous harmonics driven by counter-rotating bicircular (CRB) pulse unive…

physics.optics2025

Occupation-Driven emission asynchronous as a Fundamental Constraint on Solid-State Attosecond Pulses

Qing-Guo Fan, Kang Lai, Wen-hao Liu +3

A newly analytic occupation-resolved theory capturing the temporal structure of attosecond pulses (APs) is derived. We validate it with real-time time-dependent density functional…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Ultrafast dynamics of atomic correlated disordering in photoinduced VO

Wen-Hao Liu, Feng-Wu Guo, Lin-Wang Wang +1

Recent experiments suggest that atomic disordering dynamics are more universal than conventional coherent processes in photoinduced phase transitions (PIPTs), yet its mechanism rem…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Tailoring light holes in - via Anion-Anion Antibonding Coupling

Ke Xu, Qiaolin Yang, Wenhao Liu +3

A significant limitation of wide-bandgap materials is their low hole mobility related to localized holes with heavy effective masses (). We identify in low-symmetric wide-ba…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 21 cited

The photoinduced hidden metallic phase of monoclinic VO2 driven by local nucleation via a self-amplification process

Feng-Wu Guo, Wen-Hao Liu, Zhi Wang +3

The insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) in vanadium dioxide (VO2) has garnered extensive attention for its potential applications in ultrafast switches, neuronal network architectu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 19 cited

Origin of Immediate Damping of Coherent Oscillations in Photoinduced Charge Density Wave Transition

Yu-Xiang Gu§, Wen-Hao Liu§, Zhi Wang +3

In stark contrast to the conventional charge density wave (CDW) materials, the one-dimensional CDW on the In/Si(111) surface exhibits immediate damping of the CDW oscillation durin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 1 cited

Photoinduced charge density wave transition like a puppet on a string

Zhao-Jun Suo, Wen-Hao Liu, Zhi Wang +4

Charge density wave (CDW) materials can undergo an ultrafast phase transition after an ultrashort laser pulse excitation, and the suggested underlying mechanisms have always been a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 41 cited

Uniting the order and disorder dynamics in photoexcited VO2

Hao-Wen Liu, Wen-Hao Liu, Zhao-Jun Suo +4

Photoinduced phase transition (PIPT) is always treated as a coherent process, but ultrafast disordering in PIPT is observed in recent experiments. Utilizing the real-time time-depe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 10 cited

Dynamic short-range correlation in photoinduced disorder phase transitions

Wen-Hao Liu, Jun-Wei Luo, Shu-Shen Li +1

Ultrafast photoexcitation can induce a nonequilibrium dynamic with electron-lattice interaction, offering an effective way to study photoinduced phase transitions (PIPTs) in solids…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 47 cited

The seeds and homogeneous nucleation of photoinduced nonthermal melting in semiconductors due to self-amplified local dynamic instability

Wen-Hao Liu, Jun-Wei Luo*, Shu-Shen Li +1

Laser-induced nonthermal melting in semiconductors has been studied over the last four decades, but the underlying mechanism is still under debate. Here, by utilizing an advanced r…

physics.comp-ph2021★ 28 cited

The critical role of hot carrier cooling in optically excited structural transitions

Wen-Hao Liu, Jun-Wei Luo, Shu-Shen Li +1

The hot carrier cooling occurs in most photoexcitation-induced phase transitions (PIPTs), but its role has often been neglected in many theoretical simulations as well as in propos…