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most citedUltrafast Suppression of the Ferroelectric Instability in KTaO

19 citations · 31 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

physics.optics2026

Nonresonant optomechanical control of structural phases

Jiaojian Shi, Yijing Huang, Christian Heide +24

Optical tweezers demonstrate how light can exert forces to trap, repel, and manipulate microscopic particles without absorption. Recent theory has suggested that such forces can ex…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Emergent Antiphase Stacking in a Transient Charge Density Wave

Jade Stanton, Gal Orenstein, Ryan A. Duncan +14

Photoexcitation can induce novel states in materials that are inaccessible in equilibrium, a recent example being the light-induced charge density wave (CDW) observed in $\text{LaT…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

A textured polar phase in strained SrTiO3

Huaiyu Hugo Wang, Ernesto Flores, Jade Stanton +11

Quantum materials can harbour hidden phases whose microscopic structures differ from conventional ordered states while reproducing their macroscopic signatures, making them easy to…

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★ 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…

physics.optics2024★ 2 cited

Nonresonant Raman control of ferroelectric polarization

Jiaojian Shi, Christian Heide, Haowei Xu +15

Important advances have recently been made in the search for materials with complex multi-phase landscapes that host photoinduced metastable collective states with exotic functiona…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Terahertz-induced tunnel ionization drives coherent Raman-active phonon in Bismuth

Bing Cheng, Patrick L. Kramer, Mariano Trigo +6

Driving coherent lattice motion with THz pulses has emerged as a novel pathway for achieving dynamic stabilization of exotic phases that are inaccessible in equilibrium quantum mat…

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…

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.str-el2024★ 8 cited

Ultrafast measurements under anisotropic strain reveal near equivalence of competing charge orders in TbTe

Soyeun Kim, Gal Orenstein, Anisha G. Singh +3

We report ultrafast reflectivity measurements of the dynamics of the order parameter of the charge density wave (CDW) in TbTe under anisotropic strain. We observe an increase i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 19 cited

Ultrafast Suppression of the Ferroelectric Instability in KTaO

Viktor Krapivin, Mingqiang Gu, D. Hickox-Young +13

We use an x-ray free-electron laser to study the ultrafast lattice dynamics following above band-gap photoexcitation of the incipient ferroelectric potassium-tantalate, \kto. % We…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Direct Observation of Coherent Longitudinal and Shear Acoustic Phonons in TaAs Using Ultrafast X-ray Diffraction

Min-Cheol Lee, N. Sirica, S. W. Teitelbaum +18

Using femtosecond time-resolved X-ray diffraction, we investigated optically excited coherent acoustic phonons in the Weyl semimetal TaAs. The low symmetry of the (112) surface pro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Photoinduced suppression of the ferroelectric instability in PbTe

M. P. Jiang, M. Trigo, S. Fahy +18

The interactions between electrons and phonons drive a large array of technologically relevant material properties including ferroelectricity, thermoelectricity, and phase-change b…