The Condensed Matter Division investigates the dynamics of solids using time dependent techniques. Tabletop and accelerator-based light sources, covering the whole electromagnetic spectrum from the THz to the hard X-rays, measure the structural dynamics of electrons, spins and atomic lattices in quantum condensed matter. Several independent research groups are exploring alternative techniques, including nanoelectronic dynamics measured with a picosecond STM, attosecond timescale X-ray spectroscopies of solids, and theory of ultrafast quantum many body physics.


  •       FEL pulse profiling

  •       photoinduced melting of antiferromagnetic order

  •       single atom spin dynamics

  •       induced superconductivity

  •       photo-excited states in correlated systems

  •       nonlinear phononics

  •       probing magnetic dynamics

  •       many body dynamics in Mott insulators