3.2 Ultrafast Dynamics in Solids and Nanostructures

Project coordinators: C. Korff Schmising, von , S. Sharma

Publications

2026

B4-P-2026.01

Studies on multiferroics with weak magnetoelectric coupling using Green's function method

P. Balasubramanian, M. Sharma, T. Nishanth, K. Vikram

Physical Review B 724 (2026) 418166/1-7

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C3-P-2025.04

Light wave induced nanosecond-long persistent state in the Dirac semimetal Cd3As2

A. Ghalgaoui, P. Pilch, T. Kang, M. Runge, S. Kovalev, Y. Yang, F. Xiu, Z. Wang

Physical Review B 113 (2026) L041106/1-7

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B1-P-2025.18

Soft X-ray imaging with coherence tomography in the water window spectral range using highharmonic generation

J. Reinhard, F. Wiesner, M. Hennecke, T. Sidiropoulos, S. Kaleta, J. Späthe, J. J. Abel, M. Wünsche, G. Schmidl, J. Plentz, U. Hübner, K. Freiberg, J. Apell, S. Lippmann, M. Schnürer, S. Eisebitt, G. G. Paulus, S. Fuchs

Light: Science & Applications 15 (2026) 79/1-10

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2025

C3-P-2024.03

Nonlinear terahertz phononics in the Dirac semimetal Cd3As2

A. Ghalgaoui, F. Yang, P. Pilch, T. Kang, M. Runge, S. Yue, Y. Chen, Y. Yang, F. Xiu, X.-L. Sheng, S. A. Yang, Z. Wang

Physical Review B 112 (2025) L041117/1-6

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C3-P-2024.04

Tuning the terahertz response of liquids by creating polar many-body excitations

G. McCaul, M. Runge, M. Woerner, D. Talbayev, T. Elsaesser, D. I. Bondar

Physical Review A 112 (2025) L011101/1-7

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C3-P-2024.02

Solvated electrons in polar liquids as epsilon-near-zero materials tunable in the terahertz frequency range

M. Runge, M. Woerner, D. I. Bondar, T. Elsaesser

Physical Review Letters 134 (2025) 056901/1-6

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B1-P-2025.02

Evidence of relativistic field-derivative torque in nonlinear THz response of magnetization dynamics

A. Dutta, C. Tzschaschel, D. Priyadarshi, K. Mikuni, T. Satoh, R. Mondal, S. Pal

Advanced Functional Materials 35 (2025) 2414582/1-10

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B4-P-2025.01

Luminescence properties of ZnSe single crystals co-doped with Fe and Cr

K. Lamonova, A. Prokhorov, M. Schmidbauer, A. Kwasniewski, Yu Kazarinov, M. Konuhova, A. Platonenko, Z. Remeš, K. Ridzoňová, M. Buryi

Optical Materials: X (2025) 100393/1-11

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B4-P-2025.02

Kohn-Sham-Proca equations for ultrafast exciton dynamics

J. K. Dewhurst, D. Gill, S. Shallcross, S. Sharma

Physical Review B 111 (2025) L060302/1-7

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B4-P-2025.03

Combining THz and infrared light to control valley charge and current in gapless graphene

S. Sharma, D. Gill, J. Krishna, J. K. Dewhurst, P. Elliott, S. Shallcross

Nano Letters 25 (2025) 3791-3798

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B1-P-2025.04

Subwavelength localized all-optical Helicity-independent magnetic switching using plasmonic gold nanostructures

T. P. H. Sidiropoulos, P. Singh, T. Noll, M. Schneider, D. Engel, D. Sommer, F. Steinbach, I. Will, B. Pfau, C. von Korff Schmising, Stefan Eisebitt

Nano Letters 25 (2025) 4645–4651

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C3-P-2025.01

Ultrafast longitudinal and transverse dielectric response of collective polar modes in liquids

M. Runge, M. Woerner, T. Elsaesser

Physical Review Research 7 (2025) 023304/1-13

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B1-P-2025.01

Femtosecond charge and spin dynamics in a Co50Pt50 alloy

M. Pavelka, S. Marotzke, R.-P. Wang, M. F. Elhanoty, G. Brenner, S. Dziarzhytski, S. Jana, W. D. Engel, C. von Korff Schmising, D. Gupta, I. Vaskivskyi, T. Amrhein, N. Thielemann-Kühn, M. Weinelt, R. Knut, J. Rönsch-Schulenberg, E. Schneidmiller, C. Schüßler-Langeheine, M. Beye, Niko Pontius, O. Grånäs, H. A. Dürr

Structural Dynamics 12 (2025) 024303/1-8

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B1-P-2025.03

First experiments with ultrashort, circularly polarized soft x-ray pulses at FLASH2

S. Marotzke, D. Gupta, R.-P. Wang, M. Pavelka, S. Dziarzhytski, C. von Korff Schmising, S. Jana, N. Thielemann-Kühn, T. Amrhein, M. Weinelt, I. Vaskivskyi, R. Knut, D. Engel, M. Braune, M. Ilchen, S. Savio, T. Otto, K. Tiedtke, V. Scheppe, J. Rönsch-Schulenberg, E. Schneidmiller, C. Schüßler-Langeheine, H. A. Dürr, M. Beye, G. Brenner, N. Pontius

Structural Dynamics 12 (2025) 034301/1-12

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B4-P-2025.04

Pure spin currents via antisymmetric light

D. Gill, S. Sharma, S. Shallcross

Nano Letters 25 (2025) 9913–9917

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B4-P-2025.05

Ultrafast all-optical generation of pure spin and valley currents

D. Gill, S. Sharma, J. K. Dewhurst, S. Shallcross

Nature, npj 2D Mater Appl 9 (2025) 49/1-9

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B1-P-2025.05

Spectroscopic probe of ultrafast magnetization dynamics in the extreme ultraviolet spectral range

J. Richter, S. Jana, R. Behrends, C. S. Davies, D. W. Engel, M. Hennecke, D. Schick, C. von Korff Schmising, S. Eisebitt

Physical Review B 111 (2025) 214423/1-9

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B1-P-2025.06

Wavelength-dependent photodissociation of iodomethylbutane

V. Music, F. Allum, L. Inhester, P. Schmidt, R. Boll, T. M. Baumann, G. Brenner, M. Brouard, M. Burt, P. V. Demekhin, S. Dörner, A. Ehresmann, A. Galler, P. Grychtol, D. Heathcote, D. Kargin, M. Larsson, J. W. L. Lee, Z. Li, B. Manschwetus, L. Marder, R. Mason, M. Meyer, H. Otto, C. Passow, R. Pietschnig, D. Ramm, D. Rolles, K. Schubert, L. Schwob, R. D. Thomas , C. Vallance, I. Vidanovic, C. von Korff Schmising, R. Wagner, V. Zhaunerchyk, P. Walter, S. Bari, B. Erk, M. Ilchen

Scientific Reports 15 (2025) 20139 /1-13

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B4-P-2025.06

Creation and control of valley currents in graphene by few cycle light pulses

D. Gill, S. Sharma, J. K. Dewhurst, S. Shallcross

Nature, npj | computational materials 11 (2025) 185/1-6

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B1-P-2025.09

Evidence of an exchange-based origin of demagnetization from the fluence dependent delay of Ni in a disordered Fe0.5Ni0.5 alloy

S. Jana, R. Knut, P. Singh, K. Yao, C. Tzschaschel, J. Richter, D. Schick, D. Sommer, D. Engel, O. Karis, C. von Korff Schmising, S. Eisebitt

Physical Review B 112 (2025) 214412/1-7

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