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20242026
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7 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Ultrafast Néel vector switching

Eddie Ivor Harris-Lee, John Kay Dewhurst, Wenhan Chen +3

We predict ultrafast switching in a chiral anti-ferromagnet that occurs at femtosecond times, nearly 5 orders of magnitude faster than the torque induced nanosecond switching previ…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Magnetizing altermagnets by ultrafast asymmetric spin dynamics

Zhaobo Zhou, Sangeeta Sharma, John Kay Dewhurst +1

Laser pulses are known to induce symmetric demagnetization: equal loss of magnetic moments in the identical sublattices of antiferromagnets and ferromagnets at ultrashort timescale…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Coupled femto-excitons, free carriers and light

Deepika Gill, Sam Shallcross, Wenhan Chen +2

Non-equilibrium quantum matter generated by ultrafast laser light opens new pathways in fundamental condensed matter physics, as well as offering rich control possibilities in "tai…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Ultrafast Saddletronics

Sangeeta Sharma, Deepika Gill, John Kay Dewhurst +2

Low energy valleys in the band structure of 2d materials represent a potential route to the ultrafast writing of information in quantum matter by laser light, with excited charge a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Giant moment increase by ultrafast laser light

Sangeeta Sharma, Deepika Gill, Jyoti Krishna +3

It is now well established that a few femtosecond laser pulse will induce an ultrafast loss of moment in a magnetic material. Here we show that the opposite effect can also occur:…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Kohn-Sham-Proca equations for ultrafast exciton dynamics

J. K. Dewhurst, D. Gill, S. Shallcross +1

A long standing problem in time dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) has been the absence of a functional able to capture excitonic physics under laser pump conditions. Her…