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20142026
most citedFast non-thermal switching between macroscopic charge-ordered quantum states induced by charge injection

232 citations · 534 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cond-mat.supr-con2026

A programmable superconductor created by light

Viktoria Yursa, Igor Vaskivskyi, Anze Mraz +7

The quest for superconductivity created by light extends for more than half a century, yet direct evidence of a true zero-resistance state - whose macroscopic quantum phase coheren…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Real-time imaging of quasiparticle dynamics at a topological defect in an electronic crystal

Yevhenii Vaskivskyi, Jaka Vodeb, Igor Vaskivskyi +1

Defects formed during nonequilibrium self-assembly of quantum matter can dominate its emergent properties. Their macroscopic manifestations are typically characterised as noise, bu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Element-specific ultrafast lattice dynamics in FePt nanoparticles

Diego Turenne, Igor Vaskivskiy, Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten +14

Light-matter interaction at the nanoscale in magnetic alloys and heterostructures is a topic of intense research in view of potential applications in high-density magnetic recordin…

physics.optics2023★ 10 cited

A high-efficiency programmable modulator for extreme ultraviolet light with nm feature size based on an electronic phase transition

Igor Vaskivskyi, Anze Mraz, Rok Venturini +11

The absence of efficient light modulators for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray photons significantly limits their real-life application, particularly when even slight complexity…

physics.comp-ph2022

Nanocryotron-driven Charge Configuration Memristor

Anze Mraz, Viktor V. Kabanov, Rok Venturini +12

Cryo-computing - both classical and quantum, is severely limited by the absence of a suitable cryo-memory. The challenge both in terms of energy efficiency and speed have been know…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 13 cited

Ultra-Efficient Resistance Switching between Charge Ordered Phases in 1T-TaS with a Single Picosecond Electrical Pulse

Rok Venturini, Anže Mraz, Igor Vaskivskyi +11

Progress in high-performance computing demands significant advances in memory technology. Among novel memory technologies that promise efficient device operation on a sub-ns timesc…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 19 cited

Ultrafast manipulation of the NiO antiferromagnetic order via sub-gap optical excitation

Xiaocui Wang, Robin Y. Engel, Igor Vaskivskyi +19

Wide-band-gap insulators such as NiO offer the exciting prospect of coherently manipulating electronic correlations with strong optical fields. Contrary to metals where rapid depha…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Non-equilibrium self-assembly of spin-wave solitons in FePt nanoparticles

D. Turenne, A. Yaroslavtsev, X. Wang +36

Magnetic nanoparticles such as FePt in the L10-phase are the bedrock of our current data storage technology. As the grains become smaller to keep up with technological demands, the…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 5 cited

Energy efficient manipulation of topologically protected states in non-volatile ultrafast charge configuration memory devices

Anze Mraz, Rok Venturini, Michele Diego +13

Non-volatile magnetic storage, from 1940s magnetic core to present day racetrack memory and magnetic anisotropy switching devices rely on the metastability of magnetic domains to s…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 19 cited

Quantum billiards with correlated electrons confined in triangular transition metal dichalcogenide monolayer nanostructures created by laser quench

Jan Ravnik, Yevhenii Vaskivskyi, Jaka Vodeb +6

Forcing systems though fast non-equilibrium phase transitions offers the opportunity to study new states of quantum matter that self-assemble in their wake. Here we study the quant…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 38 cited

A time-domain phase diagram of metastable states in a charge ordered quantum material

Jan Ravnik, Michele Diego, Yaroslav Gerasimenko +5

Metastable self-organized electronic states in quantum materials are of fundamental importance, displaying emergent dynamical properties that may be used in new generations of sens…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

Tailoring Vanadium Dioxide Film Orientation using Nanosheets: A Combined Microscopy, Diffraction, Transport and Soft X-ray in Transmission Study

Phu Tran Phong Le, Kevin Hofhuis, Abhi Rana +17

VO2 is a much-discussed material for oxide electronics and neuromorphic computing applications. Here, heteroepitaxy of vanadium dioxide (VO2) was realized on top of oxide nanosheet…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 2 cited

Theoretical Modeling of the Non-equilibrium Amorphous State in 1T-TaS

Jaka Vodeb, Viktor V. Kabanov, Yaroslav Gerasimenko +3

1T-TaS is known for it's remarkably complex phase diagram and it's unique long-lived metastable hidden (H) state. Recently, a novel metastable state has been discovered using h…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 83 cited

Ultrafast jamming of electrons into an amorphous entangled state

Yaroslav Gerasimenko, Igor Vaskivskyi, Jan Ravnik +3

New emergent states of matter in quantum systems may be created under non-equilibrium conditions if - through many body interactions - its constituents order on a timescale which i…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 38 cited

Real-time observation of the coherent transition to a metastable emergent state in 1T-TaS

Jan Ravnik, Igor Vaskivskyi, Tomaz Mertelj +1

The transition to a hidden metastable state in 1T-TaS2 is investigated in real time using coherent time-resolved femtosecond spectroscopy. Relying on spectral differences between p…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 72 cited

Intertwined chiral charge orders and topological stabilization of the light-induced state of a prototypical transition metal dichalcogenide

Yaroslav A. Gerasimenko, Peter Karpov, Igor Vaskivskyi +2

The fundamental idea that the constituents of interacting many body systems in complex quantum materials may self-organise into long range order under highly non-equilibrium condit…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 2 cited

Three-dimensional resistivity switching between correlated electronic states in 1T-TaS2

Damjan Svetin, Igor Vaskivskyi, Serguei Brazovskii +1

Recent demonstrations of controlled switching between different ordered macroscopic states by impulsive electromagnetic perturbations in complex materials have opened some fundamen…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 232 cited

Fast non-thermal switching between macroscopic charge-ordered quantum states induced by charge injection

I. Vaskivskyi, I. A. Mihailovic, S. Brazovskii +5

The functionality of logic and memory elements in current electronics is based on multi-stability, driven either by manipulating local concentrations of electrons in transistors, o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 1 cited

The effect of strain on the thawing of the hidden state and other transitions in 1T-TaS2

Damjan Svetin, Igor Vaskivskyi, Petra Sutar +3

We investigate the effect of 2-dimensional (in-plane) strain on the critical transition temperature TH from the photoexcited hidden state in 1T-TaS thin films on different subs…