ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Coherent Steering of Order via Lattice Resonances
Discovering methods that facilitate ultrafast and minimally-dissipative switching of spontaneous ordering represents one of the most prominent research directions in modern condensed matter physics. In recent years, breakthrough experiments have revealed that circularly-polarized femtosecond pulses, in the visible spectral range, can non-thermally perturb magnetization via the ultrafast inverse Faraday effect. However, the associated pathway of energy flow – from light to electrons to spins - incurs substantial parasitic energy losses while simultaneously restricting the functional duration and amplitude of the spin stimulus to the highly-limited lifetime and strength of the photo-excited…
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