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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…
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…
Wannier interpolation of reciprocal-space periodic and non-periodic matrix elements in the optimally smooth subspace
Giulio Volpato, Stefano Mocatti, Giovanni Marini +1
Maximally localized Wannier functions use the gauge freedom of Bloch wavefunctions to define the optimally smooth subspace with matrix elements that depend smoothly on crystal mome…
NbSe's charge density wave collapse in the (LaSe)(NbSe) misfit layer compound
Ludovica Zullo, Grégory Setnikar, Amit Pawbake +8
Misfit layer compounds, heterostructures composed by a regular alternating stacking of rocksalt monochalcogenides bilayers and few-layer transition metal dichalchogenides, are an e…