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20162025
most citedEvidence for a single-layer van der Waals multiferroic

413 citations · 581 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Coherent terahertz control of metastable magnetization in FePS3

Batyr Ilyas, Tianchuang Luo, Honglie Ning +7

The crystal lattice governs the emergent electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of quantum materials, making structural tuning through strain, pressure, or chemical substitut…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 56 cited

Terahertz field-induced metastable magnetization near criticality in FePS3

Batyr Ilyas, Tianchuang Luo, Alexander von Hoegen +8

Controlling the functional properties of quantum materials with light has emerged as a frontier of condensed-matter physics, leading to the discovery of various light-induced phase…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Electrical switching of an unconventional odd parity magnet

Qian Song, Srdjan Stavrić, Paolo Barone +11

Magnetic states with zero magnetization but non-relativistic spin splitting are outstanding candidates for the next generation of spintronic devices. Their electron-volt (eV) scale…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Higgs-mode electromagnon in the spin-spiral multiferroic CuBr

Bryan T. Fichera, Ajesh Kumar, Baiqing Lv +8

Below a continuous symmetry breaking phase transition, the relevant collective excitations are due to longitudinal and transverse fluctuations of the order parameter, which are ref…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Light-induced reorientation transition in an antiferromagnetic semiconductor

Bryan T. Fichera, Baiqing Lv, Karna Morey +18

Due to the lack of a net magnetic moment, antiferromagnets possess a unique robustness to external magnetic fields and are thus predicted to play an important role in future magnet…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Discovery of transient topological crystalline order in optically driven SnSe

Masataka Mogi, Dongsung Choi, Kyoung Hun Oh +13

Ultrafast optical excitation provides a powerful route for accessing emergent quantum phases far from equilibrium, enabling transient light-induced phenomena such as magnetism, fer…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Spontaneous emergence of phonon angular momentum through hybridization with magnons

Honglie Ning, Tianchuang Luo, Batyr Ilyas +7

Chirality, the breaking of improper rotational symmetry, is a fundamental concept spanning diverse scientific domains. In condensed matter physics, chiral phonons, originating from…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 5 cited

Terahertz Control of Linear and Nonlinear Magno-Phononics

Tianchuang Luo, Honglie Ning, Batyr Ilyas +8

Coherent manipulation of magnetism through the lattice provides unprecedented opportunities for controlling spintronic functionalities on the ultrafast timescale. Such nonthermal c…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 9 cited

Coexistence of interacting charge density waves in a layered semiconductor

B. Q. Lv, Alfred Zong, Dong Wu +14

Coexisting orders are key features of strongly correlated materials and underlie many intriguing phenomena from unconventional superconductivity to topological orders. Here, we rep…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Infrared Optical Anisotropy in Quasi-1D Hexagonal Chalcogenide BaTiSe3

Boyang Zhao, Hongyan Mei, Zhengyu Du +9

Polarimetric infrared detection bolsters IR thermography by leveraging the polarization of light. Optical anisotropy, i.e., birefringence and dichroism, can be leveraged to achieve…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 24 cited

Coherent detection of hidden spin-lattice coupling in a van der Waals antiferromagnet

Emre Ergeçen, Batyr Ilyas, Junghyun Kim +7

Strong interactions between different degrees of freedom lead to exotic phases of matter with complex order parameters and emergent collective excitations. Conventional techniques,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 61 cited

Magnetically brightened dark electron-phonon bound states in a van der Waals antiferromagnet

Emre Ergeçen, Batyr Ilyas, Dan Mao +6

In van der Waals (vdW) materials, strong coupling between different degrees of freedom can hybridize elementary excitations into bound states with mixed character. Correctly identi…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 413 cited

Evidence for a single-layer van der Waals multiferroic

Qian Song, Connor A. Occhialini, Emre Ergeçen +10

Multiferroic materials have garnered wide interest for their exceptional static and dynamical magnetoelectric properties. In particular, type-II multiferroics exhibit an inversion-…

quant-ph2017★ 4 cited

Lorentz invariant entanglement distribution for the space-based quantum network

Tim Byrnes, Batyr Ilyas, Louis Tessler +3

In recent years there has been a great deal of focus on a globe-spanning quantum network, including linked satellites for applications ranging from quantum key distribution to dist…

gr-qc2016★ 6 cited

Observational properties of rigidly rotating dust configurations

Batyr Ilyas, Jinye Yang, Daniele Malafarina +1

We study the observational properties of a class of exact solutions of Einstein's field equations describing stationary, axially symmetric, rigidly rotating dust (i.e. non interact…