6 papers
Light-Induced Transient Polarization Reversal in Rhombohedrally Stacked Bilayer Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides via an Electronic Mechanism
Xiangzhou Zhu, Stefano Mocatti, Matteo Calandra
Light-induced sliding ferroelectricity in two-dimensional van der Waals materials enables polarization control via relative layer motion. However, polarization switching occurs on…
Photoinduced phase heterogeneity and charge localization in SnSe
Benjamin J. Dringoli, Stefano Mocatti, Giovanni Marini +4
Time-resolved multi-terahertz (THz) spectroscopy is used to observe pump fluence-dependent dynamics in the optical conductivity of photoexcited tin selenide (SnSe) over an ultrabro…
Disorder-Driven Enhancement of Coulomb Repulsion Governs The Superconducting Dome in Ionic-Liquid-Gated Quasi-2D Materials
Giovanni Marini, Pierluigi Cudazzo, Matteo Calandra
The superconducting dome in the Tc versus doping phase diagram, found in cuprates, nickelates, twisted bilayer graphene, and transition metal dichalcogenides, is often considered a…
Nonequilibrium Photocarrier and Phonon Dynamics from First Principles: a Unified Treatment of Carrier-Carrier, Carrier-Phonon, and Phonon-Phonon Scattering
Stefano Mocatti, Giovanni Marini, Giulio Volpato +2
We develop a first-principles many-body framework to describe the dynamics of photocarriers and phonons in semiconductors following ultrafast excitation. Our approach incorporates…
Theory of infrared magneto-optical effects from chiral phonons in solids
Chiara Fiorazzo, Cheol-Hwan Park, Ivo Souza +1
In crystals with broken time-reversal symmetry, zone-center phonons can acquire a finite angular momentum via velocity-dependent forces on the nuclei. Despite having the same order…
Symmetry-protected electronic metastability in an optically driven cuprate ladder
Hari Padma, Filippo Glerean, Sophia F. R. TenHuisen +23
Optically excited quantum materials exhibit nonequilibrium states with remarkable emergent properties, but these phenomena are usually transient, decaying on picosecond timescales…