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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…