2016/08/17 by D. Nicoletti, Daniele Nicoletti, A. Cavalleri +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Condensed matter physics #Electron #Free electron model #Free-electron laser #Laser #Optics #Optoelectronics #Phonon #Physics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Plasmon #Quantum mechanics #State of matter #Superconductivity #Terahertz radiation #cond-mat.str-el #cond-mat.supr-con
paper · pdf · doi:10.1364/aop.8.000401
published as Advances in Optics and Photonics Vol. 8, Issue 3, pp. 401-464 (2016) · 55 pages, 34 figures
openalex publication_date 2016/08/17 · arxiv created 2016/08/19 · arxiv updated 2016/08/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Strong optical pulses at mid-infrared and terahertz frequencies have recently emerged as powerful tools to manipulate and control the solid state and especially complex condensed matter systems with strongly correlated electrons. The recent developments in high-power sources in the 0.1–30 THz frequency range, both from table-top laser systems and from free-electron lasers, have provided access to excitations of molecules and solids, which can be stimulated at their resonance frequencies. Amongst these, we discuss free electrons in metals, superconducting gaps and Josephson plasmons in layered superconductors, and vibrational modes of the crystal lattice (phonons), as well as magnetic excitations. This review provides an overview and illustrative examples of how intense terahertz transients can be used to resonantly control matter, with particular focus on strongly correlated electron systems and high-temperature superconductors.