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20162026
most citedLight-induced emergent phenomena in 2D materials and topological materials

306 citations · 1.7k across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Occupation Dynamics of Floquet-Volkov States and Spectral Sum Rule

Xuanxi Cai, Changhua Bao, Benshu Fan +9

Time-periodic light fields can dress electronic states in quantum materials, forming Floquet states whose dynamic occupation determines transient material properties. Here by using…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Floquet engineering enabled by charge density wave transition

Fei Wang, Xuanxi Cai, Teng Xiao +10

Floquet engineering has emerged as a powerful approach for dynamically tailoring the electronic structures of quantum materials through time-periodic light fields generated by ultr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 7 cited

High harmonic generation light source with polarization selectivity and sub-100-m beam size for time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

Haoyuan Zhong, Xuanxi Cai, Changhua Bao +9

High-quality ultrafast light sources are critical for developing advanced time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (TrARPES). While the application of high harmonic gene…

cond-mat.other2025

Interaction effects on electronic Floquet spectra: Excitonic effects

Teng Xiao, Tsan Huang, Changhua Bao +1

Floquet engineering of electronic states by light is a central topic in modern experiments. However, the impact of many-body interactions on the single-electron properties remains…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 6 cited

Light-field dressing of transient photo-excited states above

Fei Wang, Wanying Chen, Changhua Bao +4

Time-periodic light-field provides an emerging pathway for dynamically engineering quantum materials by forming hybrid states between photons and Bloch electrons. So far, experimen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 19 cited

Giant Rashba splitting in PtTe/PtTe heterostructure

Runfa Feng, Yang Zhang, Jiaheng Li +11

Achieving a large spin splitting is highly desirable for spintronic devices, which often requires breaking of the inversion symmetry. However, many atomically thin films are centro…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 6 cited

Floquet-Volkov interference in a semiconductor

Changhua Bao, Haoyuan Zhong, Benshu Fan +9

Intense light-field can dress both Bloch electrons inside crystals and photo-emitted free electrons in the vacuum, dubbed as Floquet and Volkov states respectively. These quantum s…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 8 cited

Light-induced ultrafast glide-mirror symmetry breaking in black phosphorus

Changhua Bao, Fei Wang, Haoyuan Zhong +6

Symmetry breaking plays an important role in fields of physics, ranging from particle physics to condensed matter physics. In solid-state materials, phase transitions are deeply li…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 15 cited

Manipulating the symmetry of photon-dressed electronic states

Changhua Bao, Michael Schüler, Teng Xiao +11

Strong light-matter interaction provides opportunities for tailoring the physical properties of quantum materials on the ultrafast timescale by forming photon-dressed electronic st…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 16 cited

Correlated topological flat bands in rhombohedral graphite

Hongyun Zhang, Qian Li, Michael G. Scheer +22

Flat bands and nontrivial topological physics are two important topics of condensed matter physics. With a unique stacking configuration analogous to the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH)…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 11 cited

Ultrafast Carrier Relaxation Dynamics in a Nodal-Line Semimetal PtSn

Tianyun Lin, Yongkang Ju, Haoyuan Zhong +7

Topological Dirac nodal-line semimetals host topologically nontrivial electronic structure with nodal-line crossings around the Fermi level, which could affect the photocarrier dyn…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 11 cited

Observation of dichotomic field-tunable electronic structure in twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene

Hongyun Zhang, Qian Li, Youngju Park +18

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) provides a fascinating platform for engineering flat bands and inducing correlated phenomena. By designing the stacking architecture of graphene lay…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 7 cited

Hidden charge density wave induced shadow bands and ultrafast dynamics of CuTe investigated using time-resolved ARPES

Haoyuan Zhong, Changhua Bao, Tianyun Lin +4

Revealing the fine electronic structure is critical for understanding the underlying physics of low-dimensional materials. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) is a po…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Evolution of flat band and role of lattice relaxations in twisted bilayer graphene

Qian Li, Hongyun Zhang, Yijie Wang +15

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) exhibits correlated phenomena such as superconductivity and Mott insulating state related to the weakly dispersing flat band near the F…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 56 cited

Floquet engineering of black phosphorus upon below-gap pumping

Shaohua Zhou, Changhua Bao, Benshu Fan +6

Time-periodic light field can dress the electronic states and lead to light-induced emergent properties in quantum materials. While below-gap pumping is regarded favorable for Floq…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 40 cited

Ionic liquid gating induced self-intercalation of transition metal chalcogenides

Fei Wang, Yang Zhang, Zhijie Wang +6

Ionic liquids provide versatile pathways for controlling the structures and properties of quantum materials. Previous studies have reported electrostatic gating of nanometre-thick…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 7 cited

Distinguishing and controlling Mottness in 1T-TaS by ultrafast light

Changhua Bao, Haoyuan Zhong, Fei Wang +5

Distinguishing and controlling the extent of Mottness is important for materials where the energy scales of the onsite Coulomb repulsion U and the bandwidth W are comparable. Here…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 228 cited

Pseudospin-selective Floquet band engineering in black phosphorus

Shaohua Zhou, Changhua Bao, Benshu Fan +10

Time-periodic light field has emerged as a control knob for manipulating quantum states in solid-state materials, cold atoms and photonic systems via hybridization with photon-dres…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 306 cited

Light-induced emergent phenomena in 2D materials and topological materials

Changhua Bao, Peizhe Tang, Dong Sun +1

Light-matter interaction in 2D and topological materials provides a fascinating control knob for inducing emergent, non-equilibrium properties and achieving new functionalities in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 8 cited

A newly-designed femtosecond KBeBOF device with pulse duration down to 55 fs for time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

Haoyuan Zhong, Changhua Bao, Tianyun Lin +2

Developing a widely tunable vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) source with sub-100 femtoseconds (fs) pulse duration is critical for ultrafast pump-probe techniques such as time- and angle-re…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 23 cited

Population inversion and Dirac fermion cooling in 3D Dirac semimetal CdAs

Changhua Bao, Qian Li, Sheng Xu +8

Revealing the ultrafast dynamics of three-dimensional (3D) Dirac fermions upon photoexcitation is critical for both fundamental science and device applications. So far, how the coo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 25 cited

Ultrafast time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with widely tunable probe photon energy of 5.3-7.0 eV for investigating dynamics of three-dimensional materials

Changhua Bao, Haoyuan Zhong, Shaohua Zhou +3

Time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (TrARPES) is a powerful technique for capturing the ultrafast dynamics of charge carriers and revealing photo-induced phase tran…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 10 cited

Spatially-resolved electronic structure of stripe domains in IrTe through electronic structure microscopy

Changhua Bao, Hongyun Zhang, Qian Li +11

Phase separation in the nanometer- to micrometer-scale is characteristic for correlated materials, for example, high temperature superconductors, colossal magnetoresistance mangani…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 108 cited

Robust charge-density wave strengthened by electron correlations in monolayer 1T-TaSe2 and 1T-NbSe2

Yuki Nakata, Katsuaki Sugawara, Ashish Chainani +11

Combination of low-dimensionality and electron correlation is vital for exotic quantum phenomena such as the Mott-insulating phase and high-temperature superconductivity. Transitio…