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20152026
most citedLight-Induced Charge Density Wave in LaTe

275 citations · 1.5k across the 40 of their papers we have counts for

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41 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Heteroatom Position Controls Ultrafast Photodynamics of Oxazole and Isoxazole

Briony Downes-Ward, Paul Javed, Huynh V. S. Lam +27

The ultrafast photochemistry of heterocyclic compounds is central to photobiology and materials chemistry, yet direct experimental observation of their structural dynamics remains…

physics.acc-ph2026

Attosecond Compression of Relativistic Electron Pulses via Continuous Harmonic Undulator Resonance

Hao Sun, Xiaofan Wang, Xiaozhe Shen +4

Extending megaelectronvolt ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV UED) into the attosecond regime is essential for resolving intrinsic structural dynamics, yet requires simultaneously…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Dynamics of a jointly commensurate moiré charge density wave

Kyoung Hun Oh, Yifan Su, Honglie Ning +23

The advent of two-dimensional moiré systems has revolutionized the exploration of phenomena arising from strong correlations and nontrivial band topology. Recently, a moiré superst…

physics.acc-ph2025

High-Efficiency Plasma-Based Compressor for Ultrafast Soft X-ray Free-Electron Lasers

Mingchang Wang, Li Zeng, Bingbing Zhang +5

The generation of intense, femtosecond-scale X-ray pulses is crucial for probing matter under extreme temporal and field conditions. Current chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) techn…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Ultrafast symmetry control in photoexcited quantum dots

Burak Guzelturk, Joshua Portner, Justin Ondry +23

Symmetry control is essential for realizing unconventional properties, such as ferroelectricity, nonlinear optical responses, and complex topological order, thus it holds promise f…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 15 cited

Multi-Objective Bayesian Active Learning for MeV-ultrafast electron diffraction

Fuhao Ji, Auralee Edelen, Ryan Roussel +13

Ultrafast electron diffraction using MeV energy beams(MeV-UED) has enabled unprecedented scientific opportunities in the study of ultrafast structural dynamics in a variety of gas,…

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.chem-ph2023★ 21 cited

Monitoring the evolution of relative product populations at early times during a photochemical reaction

Joao Pedro Figueira Nunes, Lea Maria Ibele, Shashank Pathak +31

Identifying multiple rival reaction products and transient species formed during ultrafast photochemical reactions and determining their time-evolving relative populations are key…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 2 cited

Investigating dissociation pathways of nitrobenzene via mega-electron-volt ultrafast electron diffraction

Kareem Hegazy, James Cryan, Renkai Li +8

As the simplest nitroaromatic compound, nitrobenzene is an interesting model system to explore the rich photochemistry of nitroaromatic compounds. Previous measurements of nitroben…

physics.chem-ph2023

Femtosecond electronic and hydrogen structural dynamics in ammonia imaged with ultrafast electron diffraction

Elio G. Champenois, Nanna H. List, Matthew Ware +18

Directly imaging structural dynamics involving hydrogen atoms by ultrafast diffraction methods is complicated by their low scattering cross-sections. Here we demonstrate that megae…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 4 cited

Dual-stage structural response to quenching charge order in magnetite

Wei Wang, Junjie Li, Lijun Wu +8

The Verwey transition in magnetite (Fe3O4 ) is the prototypical metal-insulator transition and has eluded a comprehensive explanation for decades. A major element of the challenge…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 22 cited

Rehybridization dynamics into the pericyclic minimum of an electrcyclic reaction imaged in real-time

Yusong Liu, David M. Sanchez, Matthew R. Ware +17

Electrocyclic reactions are characterized by the concerted formation and cleavage of both σ and π bonds through a cyclic structure. This structure is known as a pericyclic transiti…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 6 cited

Applying Bayesian Inference and deterministic anisotropy to retrieve the molecular structure distribution from gas-phase diffraction experiments

Kareem Hegazy, Varun Makhija, Phil Bucksbaum +12

Currently, our general approach to retrieving molecular structures from ultrafast gas-phase diffraction heavily relies on complex ab initio electronic or vibrational excited state…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 30 cited

Large Itinerant Electron Exchange Coupling in the Magnetic Topological Insulator MnBi2Te4

Hari Padmanabhan, Vladimir A. Stoica, Peter Kim +20

Magnetism in topological materials creates phases exhibiting quantized transport phenomena with applications in spintronics and quantum information. The emergence of such phases re…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 1 cited

Direct visualization of ultrafast lattice ordering triggered by an electron-hole plasma in 2D perovskites

Hao Zhang, Wenbin Li, Joseph Essman +18

Direct visualization of ultrafast coupling between charge carriers and lattice degrees of freedom in photo-excited semiconductors has remained a long-standing challenge and is crit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 1 cited

Phonon-Mediated Attractive Interactions between Excitons in Lead-Halide-Perovskites

Nuri Yazdani, Maryna I. Bodnarchuk, Federica Bertolotti +20

Understanding the origin of electron-phonon coupling in lead-halide perovskites (LHP) is key to interpreting and leveraging their optical and electronic properties. Here we perform…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 1 cited

Panoramic mapping of phonon transport from ultrafast electron diffraction and machine learning

Zhantao Chen, Xiaozhe Shen, Nina Andrejevic +11

One central challenge in understanding phonon thermal transport is a lack of experimental tools to investigate mode-based transport information. Although recent advances in computa…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 17 cited

Verwey transition as evolution from electronic nematicity to trimerons via electron-phonon coupling

Wei Wang, Jun Li, Zhixiu Liang +13

Understanding the driving mechanisms behind metal-insulator transitions (MITs) is a critical step towards controlling material's properties. Since the proposal of charge-order-indu…

cond-mat.dis-nn2021★ 1 cited

Structural Origin of Boson Peak in Glasses

Yuan Tian, Xiaozhe Shen, Qingyang Gao +12

Boson peak, the excess low energy excitations in the terahertz regime, is one of the most unique features of disordered systems and has been linked to many anomalous properties of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 33 cited

Role of equilibrium fluctuations in light-induced order

Alfred Zong, Pavel E. Dolgirev, Anshul Kogar +17

Engineering novel states of matter with light is at the forefront of materials research. An intensely studied direction is to realize broken-symmetry phases that are "hidden" under…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 39 cited

Unconventional hysteretic transition in a charge density wave

B. Q. Lv, Alfred Zong, D. Wu +25

Hysteresis underlies a large number of phase transitions in solids, giving rise to exotic metastable states that are otherwise inaccessible. Here, we report an unconventional hyste…

physics.optics2021★ 2 cited

Visualizing femtosecond dynamics with ultrafast electron probes through terahertz compression and time-stamping

Mohamed A. K. Othman, Emma C. Snively, Annika E. Gabriel +9

Visualizing ultrafast dynamics at the atomic scale requires time-resolved pump-probe characterization with femtosecond temporal resolution. For single-shot ultrafast electron diffr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 57 cited

Interlayer magnetophononic coupling in MnBi2Te4

Hari Padmanabhan, Maxwell Poore, Peter Kim +16

The emergence of magnetism in quantum materials creates a platform to realize spin-based applications in spintronics, magnetic memory, and quantum information science. A key to unl…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 132 cited

Universal phase dynamics in VO2 switches revealed by ultrafast operando diffraction

Aditya Sood, Xiaozhe Shen, Yin Shi +9

Strongly correlated materials that exhibit an insulator-metal transition are key candidates in the search for new computing platforms. Understanding the pathways and timescales und…