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.
Seminars
| Feb. 20th: Manuel Marks: Formation Mechanism of Metal-Organic Interface States studied by 2-Photon-Photoemission-Spectroscopy |
| Feb. 20th: Marco Aprili, Microwave cooling of the Josephson phase |
News
| DNES - Jan. 2012, new publication in SCIENCE: Bistability in atomic-scale antiferromagnets |
| QCMD/ETS - Dec. 2011, new publication in PRB: Driving magnetic order in a manganite by ultrafast lattice excitation |
| Nov. 2011, Andrea Cavalleri has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. |
| QCMD - Nov. 2011, new publication in Optics Letters: Coherent single-cycle pulses with MV/cm field strengths from a relativistic transition radiation light source |
| QCMD/ETS - Oct. 2011, new publication in PRL: Clocking the Melting Transition of Charge and Lattice Order in 1T-TaS2 with Ultrafast Extreme-Ultraviolet Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy |
| Oct. 2011, Martin Eckstein joines CFEL/MPSD as leader of the theory of correlated systems out of equilibrium group |
| Sept. 2011, Sebastian Loth joines CFEL/MPSD as leader of the dynamics of nanoelectronic systems group |
| Aug. 2011, new publication in Nature Physics: Nonlinear phononics as an ultrafast route to lattice control |
| June 2011, new publication in Nature Photonics: Bi-directional ultrafast electric-field gating of interlayer charge transport in a cuprate superconductor |