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most citedPicosecond volume expansion drives a later-time insulator-metal transition in a nano-textured Mott Insulator

17 citations · 34 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Reversible Superdense Ordering of Tetragonal Lithium in a Layered Material

Natalie L. Williams, Stephen D. Funni, Sihun Lee +14

Understanding lithium (Li) ordering and dynamics is foundational in energy storage. X-ray based experimental methods do not simultaneously provide atomic structure information toge…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Synthesis of epitaxial TaO thin films on AlO by suboxide molecular-beam epitaxy and thermal laser epitaxy

Yorick A. Birkhölzer, Anna S. Park, Noah Schnitzer +28

Tantalum dioxide (TaO2) is a metastable tantalum compound. Here, we report the epitaxial stabilization of TaO2 on Al2O3 (1-102) (r-plane sapphire) substrates using suboxide molecul…

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-sci2023★ 11 cited

Coherent control of the translational and point group symmetries of crystals with light

Guru Khalsa, Jeffrey Z. Kaaret, Nicole A. Benedek

We use theory and first-principles calculations to explore mechanisms for control of the translational and point group symmetries of crystals in ultrafast optical experiments. We f…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 17 cited

Picosecond volume expansion drives a later-time insulator-metal transition in a nano-textured Mott Insulator

Anita Verma, Denis Golež, Oleg Yu. Gorobtsov +24

Technology moves towards ever faster switching between different electronic and magnetic states of matter. Manipulating properties at terahertz rates requires accessing the intrins…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 6 cited

A Strategy to Identify Materials Exhibiting a Large Nonlinear Phononics Response: Tuning the Ultrafast Structural Response of LaAlO with Pressure

Jeffrey Z. Kaaret, Guru Khalsa, Nicole A. Benedek

We use theory and first-principles calculations to investigate how structural changes induced by ultrafast optical excitation of infrared-active phonons change with hydrostatic pre…