Grp Quantum Condensed Matter Dynamics

Researchers from the MPSD and the University of Oxford manage to drive a prototypical antiferromagnet into a new magnetic state, using terahertz frequency light. Their groundbreaking method produces an effect orders of magnitude larger than previously achieved - on ultrafast time scales. more

MPSD scientists have discovered a pioneering laser-driven approach to generate a topological state in graphene. Their work is published in Nature Physics. more

MPSD post doc and Humboldt fellow Ankit Disa has spent a week networking with Nobel Laureates and hundreds of other scientists at the prestigious annual Lindau Meeting. more

An MPSD team used terahertz frequency light pulses to transform a non-ferroelectric material into a ferroelectric one. The ability to reverse a macroscopic electrical polarisation in ferroelectric materials makes them particularly suitable for digital information encoding and processing. more

New study shows fresh evidence of the amplification of optical phonons in a solid by intense terahertz laser pulses. The atomic vibrations reach very large amplitudes, where their response to the driving electric field becomes nonlinear and conventional description fails to predict their behavior. more