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Freudenstein, Josef ; Borsch, M. ; Meierhofer, Manuel ; Afanasiev, Dmytro ; Schmid, Christoph P. ; Sandner, Fabian ; Liebich, Marlene ; Girnghuber, Anna ; Knorr, Matthias ; Kira, M. ; Huber, Rupert

Attosecond clocking of correlations between Bloch electrons

Freudenstein, Josef , Borsch, M. , Meierhofer, Manuel , Afanasiev, Dmytro , Schmid, Christoph P., Sandner, Fabian, Liebich, Marlene, Girnghuber, Anna, Knorr, Matthias, Kira, M. and Huber, Rupert (2022) Attosecond clocking of correlations between Bloch electrons. Nature 610, pp. 290-295.

Date of publication of this fulltext: 24 Oct 2022 13:11
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.53111


Abstract

Delocalized Bloch electrons and the low-energy correlations between them determine key optical(1), electronic(2) and entanglement(3) functionalities of solids, all the way through to phase transitions(4,5). To directly capture how many-body correlations affect the actual motion of Bloch electrons, subfemtosecond (1 fs = 10(-15) s) temporal precision(6-15) is desirable. Yet, probing with ...

Delocalized Bloch electrons and the low-energy correlations between them determine key optical(1), electronic(2) and entanglement(3) functionalities of solids, all the way through to phase transitions(4,5). To directly capture how many-body correlations affect the actual motion of Bloch electrons, subfemtosecond (1 fs = 10(-15) s) temporal precision(6-15) is desirable. Yet, probing with attosecond (1 as = 10(-18) s) high-energy photons has not been energy-selective enough to resolve the relevant millielectronvolt-scale interactions of electrons(1-5,16,17) near the Fermi energy. Here, we use multi-terahertz light fields to force electron-hole pairs in crystalline semiconductors onto closed trajectories, and clock the delay between separation and recollision with 300 as precision, corresponding to 0.7% of the driving field's oscillation period. We detect that strong Coulomb correlations emergent in atomically thin WSe2 shift the optimal timing of recollisions by up to 1.2 +/- 0.3 fs compared to the bulk material. A quantitative analysis with quantum-dynamic many-body computations in a Wigner-function representation yields a direct and intuitive view on how the Coulomb interaction, non-classical aspects, the strength of the driving field and the valley polarization influence the dynamics. The resulting attosecond chronoscopy of delocalized electrons could revolutionize the understanding of unexpected phase transitions and emergent quantum-dynamic phenomena for future electronic, optoelectronic and quantum-information technologies.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitleNature
Publisher:Nature
Open Access Type:No Open Access
Place of Publication:BERLIN
Volume:610
Page Range:pp. 290-295
Date12 October 2022
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Chair Professor Huber > Group Rupert Huber
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10.1038/s41586-022-05190-2DOI
KeywordsPHOTOEMISSION; MONOLAYER; MATTER; LIGHT
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-531111
Item ID53111

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