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OA_type: green
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Quantum control of the many-body wavefunction is a central challenge in quantum
materials research, as it could yield a precise control knob to manipulate emergent
phenomena. Floquet engineering, the coherent dressing of quantum states with periodic
non-resonant optical fields, has become an important strategy for quantum control.
Most applications to solid-state systems have targeted weakly interacting or single-ion
states, leaving the manipulation of many-body wavefunctions largely unexplored.
Here we use Floquet engineering to achieve quantum control of a strongly correlated
Hubbard exciton in the one-dimensional Mott insulator Sr2CuO3. A non-resonant
mid-infrared optical field coherently dresses the exciton wavefunction, driving
its rotation between bright and dark states. We use resonant third-harmonic generation
to quantify ultrafast π/2 rotations on the Bloch sphere spanned by these exciton
states. Our work advances the quest towards programmable control of correlated
states and exciton-based quantum sensing.
acknowledgement: We thank K. Burch, M. Buzzi, P. Cappellaro, A. Cavalleri, E. Demler,
M. Eckstein, T. Giamarchi, D. Hsieh, H. Okamoto, D. Reis, T. Tohyama, P. Werner
and A. Yacoby for insightful discussions. We thank B. Baxley for assistance with
graphics. This work was primarily supported by the US Department of Energy, Office
of Basic Energy Sciences, Early Career Award Program, under award no. DE-SC0022883
(D.R.B., F.G., T.M. and M.M.) and award no. DE-SC0024494 (D.C. and M.C.). D.C. and
P.B.M.D.O. acknowledge funding from the NSF GRFP under grant nos. DGE-1845298 and
DGE 2140743, respectively. The work performed at Brookhaven National Laboratory
was supported by the US Department of Energy, Division of Materials Science, under
contract no. DE-SC0012704. We acknowledge funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(DFG, German Research Foundation) – 531215165 (Research Unit “OPTIMAL’). This work
was supported by the Cluster of Excellence ‘Advanced Imaging of Matter’ (AIM) and
the Max Planck-New York City Center for Non-Equilibrium Quantum Phenomena. The Flatiron
Institute is a division of the Simons Foundation. Simulations were performed with
computing resources granted by RWTH Aachen University under projects rwth0752 and
rwth1258. We acknowledge computing time on the supercomputer JURECA52 at Forschungszentrum
Jülich under the project ID enhancerg.
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arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Denitsa Rangelova
full_name: Baykusheva, Denitsa Rangelova
id: 71b4d059-2a03-11ee-914d-dfa3beed6530
last_name: Baykusheva
orcid: 0000-0002-7438-1139
- first_name: Deven
full_name: Carmichael, Deven
last_name: Carmichael
- first_name: Clara S.
full_name: Weber, Clara S.
last_name: Weber
- first_name: I. Te
full_name: Lu, I. Te
last_name: Lu
- first_name: Filippo
full_name: Glerean, Filippo
last_name: Glerean
- first_name: Tepie
full_name: Meng, Tepie
last_name: Meng
- first_name: Pedro B.M.
full_name: De Oliveira, Pedro B.M.
last_name: De Oliveira
- first_name: Christopher C.
full_name: Homes, Christopher C.
last_name: Homes
- first_name: Igor A.
full_name: Zaliznyak, Igor A.
last_name: Zaliznyak
- first_name: G. D.
full_name: Gu, G. D.
last_name: Gu
- first_name: Mark P.M.
full_name: Dean, Mark P.M.
last_name: Dean
- first_name: Angel
full_name: Rubio, Angel
last_name: Rubio
- first_name: Dante M.
full_name: Kennes, Dante M.
last_name: Kennes
- first_name: Martin
full_name: Claassen, Martin
last_name: Claassen
- first_name: Matteo
full_name: Mitrano, Matteo
last_name: Mitrano
citation:
ama: Baykusheva DR, Carmichael D, Weber CS, et al. Quantum control of Hubbard excitons.
Nature Materials. 2026. doi:10.1038/s41563-026-02517-6
apa: Baykusheva, D. R., Carmichael, D., Weber, C. S., Lu, I. T., Glerean, F., Meng,
T., … Mitrano, M. (2026). Quantum control of Hubbard excitons. Nature Materials.
Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-026-02517-6
chicago: Baykusheva, Denitsa Rangelova, Deven Carmichael, Clara S. Weber, I. Te
Lu, Filippo Glerean, Tepie Meng, Pedro B.M. De Oliveira, et al. “Quantum Control
of Hubbard Excitons.” Nature Materials. Springer Nature, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-026-02517-6.
ieee: D. R. Baykusheva et al., “Quantum control of Hubbard excitons,” Nature
Materials. Springer Nature, 2026.
ista: Baykusheva DR, Carmichael D, Weber CS, Lu IT, Glerean F, Meng T, De Oliveira
PBM, Homes CC, Zaliznyak IA, Gu GD, Dean MPM, Rubio A, Kennes DM, Claassen M,
Mitrano M. 2026. Quantum control of Hubbard excitons. Nature Materials.
mla: Baykusheva, Denitsa Rangelova, et al. “Quantum Control of Hubbard Excitons.”
Nature Materials, Springer Nature, 2026, doi:10.1038/s41563-026-02517-6.
short: D.R. Baykusheva, D. Carmichael, C.S. Weber, I.T. Lu, F. Glerean, T. Meng,
P.B.M. De Oliveira, C.C. Homes, I.A. Zaliznyak, G.D. Gu, M.P.M. Dean, A. Rubio,
D.M. Kennes, M. Claassen, M. Mitrano, Nature Materials (2026).
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2026-04-12T22:01:53Z
date_published: 2026-03-09T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2026-04-13T07:29:34Z
day: '09'
department:
- _id: DeBa
doi: 10.1038/s41563-026-02517-6
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arxiv:
- '2601.20695 '
language:
- iso: eng
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month: '03'
oa: 1
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publication: Nature Materials
publication_identifier:
eissn:
- 1476-4660
issn:
- 1476-1122
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publisher: Springer Nature
quality_controlled: '1'
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title: Quantum control of Hubbard excitons
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_id: '19639'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: "Magnetic interactions are thought to play a key role in the properties of
many unconventional superconductors, including cuprates, iron pnictides, and square-planar
nickelates. Superconductivity was also recently observed in the bilayer and trilayer
Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates, the electronic structure of which is expected to
differ from that of cuprates and square-planar nickelates. Here we study how electronic
structure and magnetic interactions evolve with the number of layers, \U0001D45B,
in thin film Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates Nd\U0001D45B+1Ni\U0001D45BO3\U0001D45B+1
with \U0001D45B=1,3, and 5 using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS). The
RIXS spectra are consistent with a high-spin |3\U0001D4518 \U0001D43F̲⟩ electronic
configuration, resembling that of La2−\U0001D465Sr\U0001D465NiO4 and the parent
perovskite, NdNiO3. The magnetic excitations soften to lower energy in the structurally
self-doped, higher-\U0001D45B films. Our observations confirm that structural
tuning is an effective route for altering electronic properties, such as magnetic
superexchange, in this prominent family of materials."
acknowledgement: Work by S.F.R.T., D.R.B., J.P., V.B., M.P.M.D., and M.M. was supported
by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Division of Materials Science, under Contract
No. DE-SC0012704. G.A.P. and D.F.S. are primarily supported by the DOE, Office of
Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, under Grant
No. DE-SC0021925, and by NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Grant No. DGE-1745303.
S.F.R.T. acknowledges additional support from the DOE, Office of Science, Office
of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, Office of Science Graduate
Student Research (SCGSR) program. The SCGSR program is administered by the Oak Ridge
Institute for Science and Education for the DOE under Contract No. DE-SC0014664.
G.A.P. acknowledges additional support from the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship
for New Americans. Q.S. was supported by the Science and Technology Center for Integrated
Quantum Materials, NSF Grant No. DMR-1231319. B.H.G and L.F.K. acknowledge support
by PARADIM, NSF Grant No. DMR-2039380. J.A.M. acknowledges support from the DOE,
Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering,
under Grant No. DE-SC0021925. Materials growth and electron microscopy were supported
by PARADIM under NSF Cooperative Agreement Grant No. DMR-2039380. Electron microscopy
made use of the Cornell Center for Materials Research Shared Facilities. The Thermo
Fisher Spectra 300 X-CFEG was acquired with support from PARADIM, an NSF Materials
Innovation Platforms (Grant No. DMR-2039380), and Cornell University. The FEI Titan
Themis 300 was acquired through Grant No. NSF-MRI-1429155, with additional support
from Cornell University, the Weill Institute, and the Kavli Institute at Cornell
University. The Thermo Fisher Helios G4 UX FIB was acquired with support by NSF
Grant No. DMR-1539918. This research used beamline 2-ID of the National Synchrotron
Light Source II, a DOE Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office
of Science by Brookhaven National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-SC0012704. We
acknowledge Diamond Light Source for time on Beamline I21 under Proposal No. MM27484.
article_number: '165145'
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arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Sophia F.R.
full_name: Tenhuisen, Sophia F.R.
last_name: Tenhuisen
- first_name: Grace A.
full_name: Pan, Grace A.
last_name: Pan
- first_name: Qi
full_name: Song, Qi
last_name: Song
- first_name: Denitsa Rangelova
full_name: Baykusheva, Denitsa Rangelova
id: 71b4d059-2a03-11ee-914d-dfa3beed6530
last_name: Baykusheva
- first_name: Dan
full_name: Ferenc Segedin, Dan
last_name: Ferenc Segedin
- first_name: Berit H.
full_name: Goodge, Berit H.
last_name: Goodge
- first_name: Hanjong
full_name: Paik, Hanjong
last_name: Paik
- first_name: Jonathan
full_name: Pelliciari, Jonathan
last_name: Pelliciari
- first_name: Valentina
full_name: Bisogni, Valentina
last_name: Bisogni
- first_name: Yanhong
full_name: Gu, Yanhong
last_name: Gu
- first_name: Stefano
full_name: Agrestini, Stefano
last_name: Agrestini
- first_name: Abhishek
full_name: Nag, Abhishek
last_name: Nag
- first_name: Mirian
full_name: García-Fernández, Mirian
last_name: García-Fernández
- first_name: Ke Jin
full_name: Zhou, Ke Jin
last_name: Zhou
- first_name: Lena F.
full_name: Kourkoutis, Lena F.
last_name: Kourkoutis
- first_name: Charles M.
full_name: Brooks, Charles M.
last_name: Brooks
- first_name: Julia A.
full_name: Mundy, Julia A.
last_name: Mundy
- first_name: Mark P.M.
full_name: Dean, Mark P.M.
last_name: Dean
- first_name: Matteo
full_name: Mitrano, Matteo
last_name: Mitrano
citation:
ama: Tenhuisen SFR, Pan GA, Song Q, et al. Magnetic excitations in Ndn+1Nin O3n+1
Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates observed via resonant inelastic x-ray scattering.
Physical Review B. 2025;111(16). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.111.165145
apa: Tenhuisen, S. F. R., Pan, G. A., Song, Q., Baykusheva, D. R., Ferenc Segedin,
D., Goodge, B. H., … Mitrano, M. (2025). Magnetic excitations in Ndn+1Nin O3n+1
Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates observed via resonant inelastic x-ray scattering.
Physical Review B. American Physical Society. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.111.165145
chicago: Tenhuisen, Sophia F.R., Grace A. Pan, Qi Song, Denitsa Rangelova Baykusheva,
Dan Ferenc Segedin, Berit H. Goodge, Hanjong Paik, et al. “Magnetic Excitations
in Ndn+1Nin O3n+1 Ruddlesden-Popper Nickelates Observed via Resonant Inelastic
x-Ray Scattering.” Physical Review B. American Physical Society, 2025.
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.111.165145.
ieee: S. F. R. Tenhuisen et al., “Magnetic excitations in Ndn+1Nin O3n+1
Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates observed via resonant inelastic x-ray scattering,”
Physical Review B, vol. 111, no. 16. American Physical Society, 2025.
ista: Tenhuisen SFR, Pan GA, Song Q, Baykusheva DR, Ferenc Segedin D, Goodge BH,
Paik H, Pelliciari J, Bisogni V, Gu Y, Agrestini S, Nag A, García-Fernández M,
Zhou KJ, Kourkoutis LF, Brooks CM, Mundy JA, Dean MPM, Mitrano M. 2025. Magnetic
excitations in Ndn+1Nin O3n+1 Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates observed via resonant
inelastic x-ray scattering. Physical Review B. 111(16), 165145.
mla: Tenhuisen, Sophia F. R., et al. “Magnetic Excitations in Ndn+1Nin O3n+1 Ruddlesden-Popper
Nickelates Observed via Resonant Inelastic x-Ray Scattering.” Physical Review
B, vol. 111, no. 16, 165145, American Physical Society, 2025, doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.111.165145.
short: S.F.R. Tenhuisen, G.A. Pan, Q. Song, D.R. Baykusheva, D. Ferenc Segedin,
B.H. Goodge, H. Paik, J. Pelliciari, V. Bisogni, Y. Gu, S. Agrestini, A. Nag,
M. García-Fernández, K.J. Zhou, L.F. Kourkoutis, C.M. Brooks, J.A. Mundy, M.P.M.
Dean, M. Mitrano, Physical Review B 111 (2025).
date_created: 2025-05-04T22:02:31Z
date_published: 2025-04-15T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-05-05T11:26:05Z
day: '15'
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- _id: DeBa
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.111.165145
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OA_type: closed access
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: The integration of theory and experiment makes possible tracking the slow
evolution of a photodoped Mott insulator to a distinct non-equilibrium metallic
phase under the influence of electron-lattice coupling.
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: letter_note
author:
- first_name: Denitsa Rangelova
full_name: Baykusheva, Denitsa Rangelova
id: 71b4d059-2a03-11ee-914d-dfa3beed6530
last_name: Baykusheva
citation:
ama: Baykusheva DR. Through the slopes of a light-induced phase transition. Nature
Physics. 2024;20(5):684-685. doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02401-7
apa: Baykusheva, D. R. (2024). Through the slopes of a light-induced phase transition.
Nature Physics. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02401-7
chicago: Baykusheva, Denitsa Rangelova. “Through the Slopes of a Light-Induced Phase
Transition.” Nature Physics. Springer Nature, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02401-7.
ieee: D. R. Baykusheva, “Through the slopes of a light-induced phase transition,”
Nature Physics, vol. 20, no. 5. Springer Nature, pp. 684–685, 2024.
ista: Baykusheva DR. 2024. Through the slopes of a light-induced phase transition.
Nature Physics. 20(5), 684–685.
mla: Baykusheva, Denitsa Rangelova. “Through the Slopes of a Light-Induced Phase
Transition.” Nature Physics, vol. 20, no. 5, Springer Nature, 2024, pp.
684–85, doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02401-7.
short: D.R. Baykusheva, Nature Physics 20 (2024) 684–685.
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2025-01-27T14:29:20Z
date_published: 2024-05-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-09T12:08:10Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: DeBa
doi: 10.1038/s41567-024-02401-7
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