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most citedSuper-Diffusive Spin-Transport as a Mechanism of Ultrafast Demagnetization

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37 papers

physics.optics2025

Complex Refractive Index Extraction for Spintronic Terahertz Emitter Analysis

Yingshu Yang, Keynesh Dongol, Stefano Dal Forno +7

Spintronic terahertz emitters (STEs) generate broadband terahertz (THz) radiation, which is essential for spectroscopy, imaging, and communication. The performances and the essenti…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Exciton lasing in carbon nanotubes below the population inversion threshold via phonon-mediated stimulated emission

Stefano Dal Forno, Marco Battiato

Excitonic optical transitions in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been extensively studied for at least two decades. However, exploiting these transitions to produce a lasing effect ha…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 7 cited

Transition from Diffusive to Superdiffusive Transport in Carbon Nanotube Networks via Nematic Order Control

Michael Wais, Filchito Renee G. Bagsican, Natsumi Komatsu +8

The one-dimensional confinement of quasiparticles in individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) leads to extremely anisotropic electronic and optical properties. In a macroscopic ensemble…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 14 cited

Modelling of Spintronic Terahertz Emitters as a function of spin generation and diffusion geometry

Yingshu Yang, Stefano Dal Forno, Marco Battiato

Spintronic THz emitters (STE) are efficient THz sources constructed using thin heavy-metal (HM) and ferromagnetic-metal (FM) layers. To improve the performance of the STE, differen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 1 cited

Secondary spin current driven efficient THz spintronic emitters

Piyush Agarwal, Yingshu Yang, Rohit Medwal +4

Femtosecond laser-induced photoexcitation of ferromagnet (FM)/heavy metal (HM) heterostructures have attracted attention by emitting broadband terahertz frequencies. The phenomenon…

nlin.PS2022★ 17 cited

From rogue waves to solitons

Amdad Chowdury, Wonkeun Chang, Marco Battiato

Using a generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation, we investigate the transformation of a fundamental rogue wave to a collection of solitons. Taking the third-order dispersion, se…

nlin.PS2022

Higher-order rogue wave fission under the effects of third-order dispersion, self-steepening and self-frequency shift

Amdad Chowdury, Wonkeun Chang, Marco Battiato

Using the generalised nonlinear Schrödinger equation, we investigate how the effect of third-order dispersion, self-steepening, and Raman-induced-self-frequency shift have an impac…

physics.optics2022

Perturbative Transfer Matrix Method for optical-pump-THz-probe of ultrafast dynamics

Yingshu Yang, Stefano Dal Forno, Marco Battiato

Ultrafast optical excitations trigger in materials a range of dynamics. An interesting range of dynamics is the ones that unfold within the picosecond timescale, corresponding to t…

nlin.PS2022★ 1 cited

Spatiotemporal pattern formation in nonlinear coupled reaction-diffusion systems with a mixed-type modal discontinuous Galerkin approach

Satyvir Singh, Marco Battiato, Vinesh Kumar

The nonlinear coupled reaction-diffusion (NCRD) systems are important in the formation of spatiotemporal patterns in many scientific and engineering fields, including physical and…

physics.app-ph2021★ 16 cited

Transfer Matrix description of heterostructured spintronics Terahertz emission

Yingshu Yang, Stefano Dal Forno, Marco Battiato

In this work we developed an extension to the Transfer Matrix method (TMM) to include a current source term, with the aim of describing both the transmission and emission of THz pu…

physics.comp-ph2021

Origin of the Background Absorption in Carbon Nanotubes: Phonon-Assisted Excitonic Continuum

Stefano Dal Forno, Natsumi Komatsu, Michael Wais +8

Excitonic effects in 1D semiconductors can be qualitatively different from those in higher dimensions. In particular, the Sommerfeld factor, the ratio of the above-band-edge excito…

physics.comp-ph2021★ 2 cited

Numerical Solver for the out-of-equilibrium time dependent Boltzmann Collision operator: Application to 2D materials

Indrajit Wadgaonkar, Michael Wais, Marco Battiato

The Time Dependent Boltzmann equation (TDBE) is a viable option to study strongly out-of-equilibrium thermalization dynamics which are becoming increasingly critical for many novel…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 5 cited

Comparing scattering rates from Boltzmann and dynamical mean-field theory

M. Wais, J. Kaufmann, M. Battiato +1

We compute scattering rates for electrons in the two-dimensional Hubbard model for a one-orbital metal and a two-orbital band insulator by means of the Boltzmann scattering equatio…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 9 cited

Numerical scheme for the far-out-of-equilibrium time-dependent Boltzmann collision operator: 1D second-degree momentum discretisation and adaptive time stepping

Indrajit Wadgaonkar, Rishabh Jain, Marco Battiato

Study of far-from-equilibrium thermalization dynamics in quantum materials, including the dynamics of different types of quasiparticles, is becoming increasingly crucial. However,…

physics.optics2020★ 11 cited

Removal of spectral distortion due to echo for ultrashort pulses propagating through multilayer structures with thick substrate

Yingshu Yang, Stefano Dal Forno, Marco Battiato

Given the wide range of applications of time-domain spectroscopy, and particularly THz time-domain spectroscopy, the modelling of a probe pulse propagating through a multilayered s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 35 cited

Terahertz Excitonics in Carbon Nanotubes: Exciton Autoionization and Multiplication

Filchito Renee G. Bagsican, Michael Wais, Natsumi Komatsu +10

Excitons play major roles in optical processes in modern semiconductors, such as single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), transition metal dichalcogenides, and 2D perovskite quantum…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 14 cited

Numerical solver for the time-dependent far-from-equilibrium Boltzmann equation

Michael Wais, Karsten Held, Marco Battiato

The study of strongly out-of-equilibrium states and their time evolution towards thermalization is critical to the understanding of an ever widening range of physical processes. We…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 43 cited

Interface reflectivity of a superdiffusive spin current in ultrafast demagnetization and THz emission

Wen-Tian Lu, Yawen Zhao, Marco Battiato +2

The spin- and energy-dependent interface reflectivity of a ferromagnetic (FM) film in contact with a nonmagnetic (NM) film is calculated using a first-principles transport method a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 27 cited

Analysis of the linear relationship between asymmetry and magnetic moment at the M-edge of 3d transition metals

Somnath Jana, R. S. Malik, Yaroslav O. Kvashnin +11

The magneto-optical response of Fe and Ni during ultrafast demagnetization is studied experimentally and theoretically. We have performed pump-probe experiments in the transverse m…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 59 cited

Modification of spintronic terahertz emitter performance through defect engineering

Dennis M. Nenno, Laura Scheuer, Dominik Sokoluk +10

Spintronic ferromagnetic/non-magnetic heterostructures are novel sources for the generation of THz radiation based on spin-to-charge conversion in the layers. The key technological…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 151 cited

Ultrafast Spin-To-Charge Conversion at the Surface of Topological Insulator Thin Films

Xinbo Wang, Liang Cheng, Dapeng Zhu +11

Strong spin-orbit coupling, resulting in the formation of spin-momentum-locked surface states, endows topological insulators with superior spin-to-charge conversion characteristics…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 15 cited

Impact of ultrafast transport on the high-energy states of a photoexcited topological insulator

F. Freyse, M. Battiato, L. V. Yashina +1

Ultrafast dynamics in three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) opens new routes for increasing the speed of information transport up to frequencies thousand times faster than…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 35 cited

Quantum Boltzmann equation for strongly correlated systems: comparison to dynamical mean field theory

Michael Wais, Martin Eckstein, Roland Fischer +3

We investigate the potential of a quantum Boltzmann equation without momentum conservation for description of strongly correlated electron systems out of equilibrium. In a spirit s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 12 cited

Spin polarisation of ultrashort spin current pulses injected in semiconductors

Marco Battiato

Ultrashort spin current pulses have a great potential of becoming the carriers of information in future ultrafast spintronics. They present the outstanding property of an extremely…