Physics Department - Subcycle Band-structure Videography of Lightwave-driven Dynamics
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Abstract
Time-resolved photoemission combines femtosecond pump-probe techniques with angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES). Recent developments enable the method to access the strong-field regime of light-matter interaction and track electron motion in two-dimensional momentum space with subcycle time resolution. In this talk, I will briefly introduce the state-of-the-art of the method and discuss a couple of examples from our recent work. These include bandstructure videography of lightwave-induced quasi-relativistiv currents in graphene and in topologically protected surface states [1,2], of the birth and collapse of Floquet-Bloch states [3], and of the formation of dark excitons in 2D semiconductors [4]. Finally, I will outline the perspectives of photoemission orbital tomography [5] to take slow-motion movies of molecular orbitals while they are driven by lightwaves.
References
[1] J. Reimann et al., “Subcycle observation of lightwave-driven Dirac currents”, Nature 562, 396 (2018)
[2] V. Eggers et al., “Subcycle band-structure videography of lightwave-controlled electrons in graphene”, in preparation
[3] S. Ito et al., “Ultrafast birth, rise, and collapse of a Floquet-Bloch band structure”, Nature 616, 696 (2023)
[4] R. Wallauer et al., “Momentum-resolved exciton formation dynamics in monolayer WS2”, Nano. Lett. 21, 5867 (2021)
[5] R. Wallauer et al., “Tracing orbital images on ultrafast time scales”, Science 371, 1056 (2021)
Ulrich Höfer received his doctoral degree in physics in 1989 from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. After spending two years as a visiting scientist at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, he joined the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching/Munich, as a group leader. In 1999, he became a full professor for experimental physics at the Philipps University of Marburg. Since 2022, he is also an adjunct professor of the University of Regensburg. Höfer’s main research interests are ultrafast processes at surfaces and interfaces. He is a pioneer of time-resolved ARPES (angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy) and coherent light-matter interaction at surfaces. His awards include the Arnold Sommerfeld prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and a Synergy Research Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).