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most citedDynamical decoding of the competition between charge density waves in a kagome superconductor

11 citations · 27 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Second-order microscopic nonlinear susceptibility in a centrosymmetric material: application to imaging valence electron motion

Chance Ornelas-Skarin, Tatiana Bezriadina, Matthias Fuchs +10

We report measurements of phase-matched nonlinear x-ray and optical sum-frequency generation from single-crystal silicon using sub-resonant 0.95 eV laser pulses and 9.5 keV hard x-…

physics.optics2025

Experimental demonstration of attosecond hard X-ray pulses

Ichiro Inoue, River Robles, Aliaksei Halavanau +24

We present the first direct experimental confirmation of attosecond pulse generation in the hard X-ray regime with a free-electron laser. Our experiment is based on measurements of…

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.str-el2025

Tuning chirality amplitude at ultrafast timescales

Hiroki Ueda, Takahiro Sato, Quynh L. Nguyen +12

Chirality is a fundamental symmetry concept describing discrete states, i.e., left-handed, right-handed, or achiral, and existing at disparate scales and in many categories of scie…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Picosecond expansion in LaAlO3 resonantly driven by infrared-active phonons

Jakob Gollwitzer, Jeffrey Z. Kaaret, Y. Eren Suyolcu +19

We investigate the ultrafast structural dynamics of LaAlO3 thin films driven by short mid-infrared laser pulses at 20 THz. Time-resolved X-ray diffraction reveals an immediate latt…

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★ 1 cited

Observation of polarization density waves in SrTiO3

Gal Orenstein, Viktor Krapivin, Yijing Huang +23

The nature of the "failed" ferroelectric transition in SrTiO3 has been a long-standing puzzle in condensed matter physics. A compelling explanation is the competition between ferro…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Dynamic motion trajectory control with nanoradian accuracy for multi-element X-ray optical systems via laser interferometry

Sina M Koehlenbeck, Lance Lee, Mario D Balcazar +14

The past decades have witnessed the development of new X-ray beam sources with brightness growing at a rate surpassing Moore's law. Current and upcoming diffraction limited and ful…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 11 cited

Dynamical decoding of the competition between charge density waves in a kagome superconductor

Honglie Ning, Kyoung Hun Oh, Yifan Su +13

The kagome superconductor CsVSb hosts a variety of charge density wave (CDW) phases, which play a fundamental role in the formation of other exotic electronic instabilities…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Non-equilibrium pathways to emergent polar supertextures

Vladimir A. Stoica, Tiannan Yang, Sujit Das +31

Ultrafast stimuli can stabilize metastable states of matter inaccessible by equilibrium means. Establishing the spatiotemporal link between ultrafast excitation and metastability i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Hard X-ray Generation and Detection of Nanometer-Scale Localized Coherent Acoustic Wave Packets in SrTiO and KTaO

Yijing Huang, Peihao Sun, Samuel W. Teitelbaum +21

We demonstrate that the absorption of femtosecond x-ray pulses can excite quasi-spherical high-wavevector coherent acoustic phonon wavepackets using an all x-ray pump and probe sca…

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…