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20162026
most citedOctopus, a computational framework for exploring light-driven phenomena and quantum dynamics in extended and finite systems

415 citations · 2.6k across the 49 of their papers we have counts for

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53 papers

physics.optics2026

Photonic and Electronic Interaction of TMD-Hybridized ZnO Nanowire Lasers

Moritz Willems, Edwin Eobaldt, Alexander Zaunick +11

Semiconductor nanowire lasers are promising on-chip coherent light sources for photonic integrated circuits, but integration inevitably places them in contact with other materials,…

physics.chem-ph2026

High-Harmonic Generation Probes Quantum Nuclear Fluctuations in Liquid Water

George Trenins, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean, Angana Mondal +5

Nuclear quantum effects are essential for an accurate description of the hydrogen-bonded structure of liquid water, yet their spectroscopic signatures can be subtle and difficult t…

physics.optics2026

Pulse-Duration Control of Subcycle Multiband Electron Dynamics Extends the High-Harmonic Cutoff in a Light-Driven Insulator

Hortense Allegre, Simon V. B. Jensen, Joseph J. Broughton +7

We demonstrate pathway-selective control of extreme-ultraviolet high-harmonic generation by jointly tuning laser pulse duration ( - fs) and intensity ( - TW/cm$^2…

physics.chem-ph2025

Attosecond-resolved probing of recolliding electron wave packets in liquids and aqueous solutions

Angana Mondal, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean, George Trenins +8

High-harmonic spectroscopy (HHS) in liquids promises real-time access to ultrafast electronic dynamics in the native environment of chemical and biological processes. While electro…

physics.chem-ph2025

Multi-plateau high-harmonic generation in liquids driven by off-site recombination

Angana Mondal, Ofer Neufeld, Tadas Balciunas +7

Non-perturbative high-harmonic generation (HHG) has recently been observed in the liquid phase, where it was demonstrated to have a different physical mechanism compared to gas and…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

Local-density correlation functional from the force-balance equation

Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean, Markus Penz, Michael Ruggenthaler +1

The force-balance equation of time-dependent density-functional theory presents a promising route towards obtaining approximate functionals, however, so far, no practical correlati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Real-time simulations of laser-induced electron excitations in crystalline ZnO

Xiao Chen, Thomas Lettau, Ulf Peschel +2

We investigate non-equilibrium electron dynamics in crystalline ZnO induced by ultrashort, relatively intense, infrared laser pulses. Our focus is on understanding the mechanism th…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Correlations drive the attosecond response of strongly-correlated insulators

Romain Cazali, Amina Alic, Matthieu Guer +8

Attosecond spectroscopy of materials has provided invaluable insight into light-driven coherent electron dynamics. However, attosecond spectroscopies have so far been focused on we…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Origin of the insulating and superconducting phases in molecular solid -(BEDT-TTF)Cu(CN)

Dongbin Shin, Fabijan Pavošević, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean +3

Recent studies of organic molecular solids are highlighted by their complex phase diagram and light-induced phenomena, such as Mott insulator, spin liquid phase, and superconductiv…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Light-induced renormalization of the band structure of chiral tellurium

G. Gatti, N. Tancogne-Dejean, H. Hübener +11

Chirality in tellurium derives from a Peierls distortion driven by strong electron-phonon coupling, making this material a unique candidate for observing a light-induced topologica…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 4 cited

Beyond Electric-Dipole Treatment of Light-Matter Interactions in Materials: Nondipole Harmonic Generation in Bulk Si

Simon Vendelbo Bylling Jensen, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean, Angel Rubio +1

A beyond electric-dipole light-matter theory is needed to describe emerging X-ray and THz applications for characterization and control of quantum materials but inaccessible as non…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 5 cited

Nonlinear photomagnetization in insulators

Bernardo S. Mendoza, Norberto Arzate-Plata, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean +1

Nonlinear photomagnetization is a process by which an oscillating electric field induces a static magnetization. We show that all 32 crystallographic point groups admit such spin p…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Engineering 2D square lattice Hubbard models in 90 twisted Ge/SnX (X=S, Se) moiré supperlattices

Qiaoling Xu, Ammon Fischer, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean +6

Due to the large-period superlattices emerging in moire two-dimensional (2D) materials, electronic states in such systems exhibit low energy flat bands that can be used to simulate…

physics.comp-ph2024

Electron-Photon Exchange-Correlation Approximation for QEDFT

I-Te Lu, Michael Ruggenthaler, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean +3

Quantum-electrodynamical density-functional theory (QEDFT) provides a promising avenue for exploring complex light-matter interactions in optical cavities for real materials. Simil…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 4 cited

Exchange-only virial relation from the adiabatic connection

Andre Laestadius, Mihály A. Csirik, Markus Penz +4

The exchange-only virial relation due to Levy and Perdew is revisited. Invoking the adiabatic connection, we introduce the exchange energy in terms of the right-derivative of the u…

physics.chem-ph2023

Self-interaction correction schemes for non-collinear spin-density-functional theory

Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean, Martin Lüders, Carsten A. Ullrich

We extend some of the well established self-interaction correction (SIC) schemes of density-functional theory to the case of systems with noncollinear magnetism. Our proposed SIC s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 14 cited

High-harmonic spectroscopy of strongly bound excitons in solids

Simon Vendelbo Bylling Jensen, Lars Bojer Madsen, Angel Rubio +1

We explore the nonlinear response of ultrafast strong-field driven excitons in a one-dimensional solid with ab initio simulations. We demonstrate from our simulations and analytica…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 55 cited

Are there universal signatures of topological phases in high harmonic generation? Probably not

Ofer Neufeld, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean, Hannes Hübener +2

High harmonic generation (HHG) has developed in recent years as a promising tool for ultrafast materials spectroscopy. At the forefront of these advancements, several works propose…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 1 cited

An ab initio supercell approach for high-harmonic generation in liquids

Zahra Nourbakhsh, Ofer Neufeld, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean +1

Many important ultrafast phenomena take place in the liquid phase. However, there is no practical theory to predict how liquids respond to intense light. Here, we propose an $ab~in…

physics.optics2022★ 17 cited

High-harmonic generation in liquids with few-cycle pulses: effect of laser-pulse duration on the cut-off energy

Angana Mondal, Benedikt Waser, Tadas Balciunas +5

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in liquids is opening new opportunities for attosecond light sources and attosecond time-resolved studies of dynamics in the liquid phase. In gas-pha…

physics.optics2022★ 9 cited

Polarization Spectroscopy of High-Order Harmonic Generation in Gallium Arsenide

Shatha Kaassamani, Thierry Auguste, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean +4

An interesting property of high harmonic generation in solids is its laser polarization dependent nature which in turn provides information about the crystal and band structure of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 11 cited

Ultrafast Spin Dynamics and Photoinduced Insulator-to-Metal Transition in -

Jin Zhang, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean, Lede Xian +4

Laser-induced ultrafast demagnetization is a phenomenon of utmost interest and attracts significant attention because it enables potential applications in ultrafast optoelectronics…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 11 cited

Exchange torque in noncollinear spin density functional theory with a semilocal exchange functional

Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean, Angel Rubio, Carsten A. Ullrich

We present a semilocal exchange-correlation energy functional for noncollinear spin density functional theory based on short-range expansions of the spin-resolved exchange hole and…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 56 cited

Attosecond magnetization dynamics in non-magnetic materials driven by intense femtosecond lasers

Ofer Neufeld, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean, Umberto De Giovannini +2

Irradiating solids with ultrashort laser pulses is known to initiate femtosecond timescale magnetization dynamics. However, sub-femtosecond spin dynamics have not yet been observed…