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20162025
most citedUltrafast reversal of the ferroelectric polarization

297 citations · 899 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Coherent terahertz control of metastable magnetization in FePS3

Batyr Ilyas, Tianchuang Luo, Honglie Ning +7

The crystal lattice governs the emergent electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of quantum materials, making structural tuning through strain, pressure, or chemical substitut…

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.supr-con2024★ 12 cited

Squeezed Josephson plasmons in driven YBaCuO

N. Taherian, M. Först, A. Liu +10

The physics of driven collective modes in quantum materials underpin a number of striking non-equilibrium functional responses, which include enhanced magnetism, ferroelectricity a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

Quenched lattice fluctuations in optically driven SrTiO3

M. Fechner, M. Först, G. Orenstein +12

Many functionally relevant ferroic phenomena in quantum materials can be manipulated by driving the lattice coherently with optical and terahertz pulses. New physical phenomena and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 102 cited

Terahertz field-induced nonlinear coupling of two magnon modes in an antiferromagnet

Zhuquan Zhang, Frank Y. Gao, Jonathan B. Curtis +9

Magnons are quantized collective spin-wave excitations in magnetically ordered materials. Revealing their interactions among these collective modes is crucial for the understanding…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 98 cited

Terahertz field-driven magnon upconversion in an antiferromagnet

Zhuquan Zhang, Frank Y. Gao, Yu-Che Chien +10

Tailored light excitation and nonlinear control of lattice vibrations have emerged as powerful strategies to manipulate the properties of quantum materials out of equilibrium. Gene…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 113 cited

Optical Stabilization of Fluctuating High Temperature Ferromagnetism in YTiO

A. S. Disa, J. Curtis, M. Fechner +9

In quantum materials, degeneracies and frustrated interactions can have a profound impact on the emergence of long-range order, often driving strong fluctuations that suppress func…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 23 cited

Parametrically amplified phase-incoherent superconductivity in YBaCuO

A. von Hoegen, M. Fechner, M. Först +8

The possibility of enhancing desirable functional properties of complex materials by optical driving is motivating a series of studies of their nonlinear terahertz response. In hig…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 172 cited

Probing the Interatomic Potential of Solids by Strong-Field Nonlinear Phononics

Alexander von Hoegen, Roman Mankowsky, Michael Fechner +2

Femtosecond optical pulses at mid-infrared frequencies have opened up the nonlinear control of lattice vibrations in solids. So far, all applications have relied on second order ph…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 297 cited

Ultrafast reversal of the ferroelectric polarization

Roman Mankowsky, Alexander von Hoegen, Michael Först +1

The ability to manipulate ferroelectrics at ultrafast speeds has long been an elusive target for materials research. Coherently exciting the ferroelectric mode with ultrashort opti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 70 cited

Picosecond electric-field-induced threshold switching in phase-change materials

Peter Zalden, Michael J. Shu, Frank Chen +16

Many chalcogenide glasses undergo a breakdown in electronic resistance above a critical field strength. Known as threshold switching, this mechanism enables field-induced crystalli…