Articles and Preprints

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Preprints

Distinct Moiré Trions in a Twisted Semiconductor Homobilayer

Z. Liu, H. Wang, X. Liu, Y. Ni, F. Y. Gao, S. Arash, D. S. Kim, X. Liu, Y. Zeng, J. Quan, D. Huang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, E. Baldini, A. H. MacDonald, C.-K. Shih, L. Yang, X. Li✉

Keldysh Tuning of Photoluminescence in a Lead Halide Perovskite Crystal

Z. Zhang, H. Ning, Z.-J. Liu, J. Hou, A. D. Mohite, E. Baldini, N. Gedik, K. A. Nelson✉

Terahertz Stimulated Parametric Downconversion of a Coherent Magnon Mode in an Antiferromagnet

Z. Zhang, Y.-C. Chien, M. T. Wong, F. Y. Gao, Z.-J. Liu, X. Ma, S. Cao, E. Baldini✉, K. A. Nelson✉

Distinct Optical Excitation Mechanisms of a Coherent Magnon in a van der Waals Antiferromagnet

C. J. Allington, C. A. Belvin, U. F. P. Seifert, M. Ye, T. Tai, E. Baldini, S. Son, J. Kim, J. Park, J.-G. Park, L. Balents, N. Gedik✉

Probing Charge Order of Monolayer NbSe2 within a Bulk Crystal

D. Azoury, E. Baldini, A. Devarakonda, J. Li, S. Fang, P. Williams, R. Comin, J. G. Checkelsky, N. Gedik✉

2024

Giant Chiral Magnetoelectric Oscillations in a van der Waals Multiferroic

F. Y. Gao, X. Peng, X. Cheng, E. Viñas Boström, D. S. Kim, R. K. Jain, D. Vishnu, K. Raju, R. Sankar, S.-F. Lee, M. A. Sentef, T. Kurumaji, X. Li, P. Tang, A. Rubio✉, E. Baldini✉, Nature 632, 273-279 (2024)

Research Highlight: Magnetoelectric Oscillations Go Giant in a van der Waals Multiferroic by G. Pacchioni✉, Nature Reviews Materials (2024)

Revealing a Distortive Polar Order Buried in the Fermi Sea

J. Shi, W. You, X. Li, F. Y. Gao, X. Peng. S. Zhang, J. Li, Y. Zhang, L. Fu, P. J. Taylor, K. A. Nelson, E. Baldini✉, Science Advances 10, eadn0929 (2024)

Light-Induced Insulator-Metal Transition in Sr2IrO4 Reveals the Nature of the Insulating Ground State

D. Choi, C. Yue, D. Azoury, Z. Porter, J. Chen, F. Petocchi, E. Baldini, B. Lv, M. Mogi, Y. Su, S. D. Wilson, M. Eckstein, P. Werner✉, N. Gedik✉ , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121, e2323013121 (2024)

Magnetically Propagating Hund’s Exciton in van der Waals Antiferromagnet NiPS3

W. He✉, Y. Shen, K. Wohlfeld, J. Sears, J. Li, J. Pelliciari, M. Walicki, S. Johnston, E. Baldini, V. Bisogni, M. Mitrano, M. P. M. Dean✉, Nature Communications 15, 3496 (2024)

Coexistence of Interacting Charge Density Waves in a Layered Semiconductor

B. Q. Lv, A. Zong, D. Wu, Z. Nie, Y. Su, D. Choi, B. Ilyas, B. Fichera, J. Li, E. Baldini, M. Mogi, Y.-B. Huang, H. C. Po, S. Meng, Y. Wang, N. L. Wang, N. Gedik✉, Physical Review Letters 132, 206401 (2024)

Terahertz-Field-Induced Nonlinear Coupling of Two Magnon Modes in an Antiferromagnet

Z. Zhang, F. Y. Gao, J. B. Curtis, Z.-J. Liu, Y.-C. Chien, A. von Hoegen, T. Kurihara, T. Suemoto, P. Narang, E. Baldini✉, K. A. Nelson✉, Nature Physics (2024)

News & Views: Terahertz Magnon Algebra by B. S. Mehra & D. S. Rana✉, Nature Physics (2024)

Nonlinear Coupled Magnonics: Terahertz Field-Driven Magnon Upconversion

Z. Zhang, F. Y. Gao, Y.-C. Chien, Z.-J. Liu, J. B. Curtis, E. R. Sung, X. Ma, W. Ren, S. Cao✉, P. Narang, A. von Hoegen, E. Baldini✉, K. A. Nelson✉, Nature Physics (2024)

Elucidating Piezoelectricity and Strain in Monolayer MoS2 at the Nanoscale Using Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy

A. De Palma, X. Peng, S. Arash, F. Y. Gao, E. Baldini, X. Li, E. T. Yu✉, Nano Letters 24, 1835–1842 (2024)

Spin-Orbit Exciton-Induced Phonon Chirality in a Quantum Magnet

D. Lujan, J. Choe, S. Chaudhary, G. Ye, C. Nnokwe, M. Rodriguez-Vega, J. He, F. Y. Gao, T. N. Nunley, E. Baldini, J. Zhou, G. A. Fiete, R. He✉, X. Li✉, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121, e2304360121 (2024)

2023

Searching for Phase Transitions in the Dark

E. Baldini✉, Nature 622, 464-465 (2023)

Charges Tied with Magnetic Strings

E. Baldini✉, Nature Physics, 19, 1761-1762 (2023)

Intrinsic 1T’ Phase Induced in Atomically Thin 2H-MoTe2 by a Single Terahertz Pulse

J. Shi, Y.-Q. Bie✉, A. Zong, S. Fang, W. Chen, J. Han, Z. Cao, Y. Zhang, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, X. Fu, V. Bulović, E. Kaxiras, E. Baldini, P. Jarillo-Herrero✉, K. A. Nelson✉, Nature Communications 14, 5905 (2023)

Discovery of Enhanced Lattice Dynamics in a Single-Layered Hybrid Perovskite

Z. Zhang, J. Zhang, Z.-J. Liu, N. S. Dahod, W. Paritmongkol, N. Brown, Y.-C. Chien, Z. Dai, K. A. Nelson✉, W. A. Tisdale, A. M. Rappe, E. Baldini✉, Science Advances 9, eadg4417 (2023)

Strongly Bound Excitons Reveal Local Spin Chain Directions in a van der Waals Antiferromagnet

D. Kim, D. Huang, C. Guo, K. Li, D. Rocca, F. Y. Gao, J. Choe, D. Lujan, T.-H. Wu, K.-H. Lin, E. Baldini, L. Yang, S. Sharma, R. Shankar, S.-F. Lee, Y. Ping✉, X. Li✉, Advanced Materials 2206585 (2023)

The Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Ta2NiSe5, is Structural in Nature

E. Baldini, A. Zong, D. Choi, C. Lee, M. H. Michael, L. Windgaetter, I. I. Mazin, S. Latini, D. Azoury, B. Q. Lv, A. Kogar, Y. Su, Y. Wang, Y. Lu, T. Takayama, H. Takagi, A. J. Millis, A. Rubio, E. Demler, N. Gedik✉, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, e2221688120 (2023)

2022

Simulating Terahertz Field-Induced Transient Ferroeletricity in Quantum Paraelectric SrTiO3

D. Shin, S. Latini, C. Schäfer, S. A. Sato, E. Baldini, U. De Giovannini, H. Hübener, A. Rubio✉, Physical Review Letters 129, 167401 (2022)

Observation of Spin-Correlated Exciton-Polaritons in a van der Waals Magnet

F. Dirnberger✉, R. Bushati, B. Datta, A. Kumar, A. H. MacDonald, E. Baldini✉, V. M. Menon✉, Nature Nanotechnology 17, 1060–1064 (2022)

Snapshots of a Light-Induced Metastable Hidden Phase Driven by the Collapse of Charge Order

F. Y. Gao, Z. Zhang, Z. Sun, L. Ye, Y.-H. Cheng, Z.-J. Liu, J. G. Checkelsky, E. Baldini✉, K. A. Nelson✉, Science Advances 8, eabp9076 (2022)

Terahertz Field-Induced Reemergence of Quenched Photoluminescence in Quantum Dots

J.-J. Shi, F. Y. Gao, Z. Zhang, H. Utzat, U. Barotov, A. Farahvash, J. Han, J. Deschamps, C.-W. Baik, K.-S. Cho, V. Bulović, A. P. Willard, E. Baldini, N. Gedik, M. G. Bawendi, K. A. Nelson✉,  Nano Letters 4, 1718–1725 (2022)

2021

Exciton-Driven Antiferromagnetic Metal in a Correlated van der Waals Insulator

C. A. Belvin, E. Baldini, I. Ö. Ozel, D. Mao, H. C. Po, C. J. Allington, S. Son, B. H. Kim, J. Kim, I. Hwang, J. H. Kim, J.-G. Park✉, T. Senthil, N. Gedik✉,   Nature Communications 12, 487 (2021)

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Trimeron-Phonon Coupling in Magnetite

P. Piekarz, D. Legut, E. Baldini, C. A. Belvin, T. Kołodziej, W. Tabiś, A. Kozłowski, Z. Kakol, Z. Tarnawski, J. Lorenzana, N. Gedik, A. M. Oleś, J. M. Honig, K. Parlinski,  Physical Review B  103, 104303 (2021)

Giant Exciton Mott Density in Anatase TiO2

E. Baldini✉, T. Palmieri, A. Dominguez, A. Rubio, M. Chergui✉,  Physical Review Letters 125, 116403 (2021)

2020

Room Temperature Terahertz Electroabsorption Modulation by Excitons in Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

J.-J. Shi, E. Baldini, S. Latini, S. Sato, Y. Zhang, B. Pein, P.-C. Shen, J. Kong, A. Rubio, N. Gedik, K. A. Nelson✉,  Nano Letters 20, 5214-5220 (2020)

Discovery of the Soft Electronic Modes of the Trimeron Order in Magnetite

E. Baldini, C. A. Belvin, M. Rodriguez-Vega, I. Ö. Ozel, D. Legut, A. Kozłowski, A. M. Oleś, K. Parlinski, P. Piekarz, J. Lorenzana, G. A. Fiete, N. Gedik✉,  Nature Physics 16, 541-545 (2020)
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Electron-Phonon-Driven Three-Dimensional Metallicity in an Insulating Cuprate

E. Baldini✉, M. A. Sentef, S. Acharya, T. Brumme, E. Sheveleva, F. Lyzwa, E. Pomjakushina, C. Bernhard, M. van Schilfgaarde, F. Carbone, A. Rubio✉, C. Weber✉,  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, 6409-6416 (2020)
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High-Resolution Time- and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy with 11 eV Laser Pulses

C. Lee, T. Rohwer, E. J. Sie, A. Zong, E. Baldini, J. Straquadine, P. Walmsley, D. Gardner, Y. S. Lee, I. R. Fisher, N. Gedik✉,  Review of Scientific Instruments 91, 043102 (2020)

Mahan Excitons in Room-Temperature Methylammonium Lead Bromide Perovskites

T. Palmieri, E. Baldini✉, A. Steinhoff, A. Akrap, M. Kollar, E. Horvath, L. Forró, F. Jahnke, M. Chergui✉,  Nature Communications 11, 850 (2020)
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2019

Exciton Control in a Room-Temperature Bulk Semiconductor with Coherent Strain Pulses

E. Baldini✉, A. Dominguez, T. Palmieri, O. Cannelli, A. Rubio, P. Ruello, M. Chergui✉,  Science Advances 5, 11, eaax2937 (2019)
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Magnetic Field-Dependent Low-Energy Magnon Dynamics in α-RuCl3

I. Ö. Ozel, C. A. Belvin, E. Baldini, I. Kimchi, S. Do, K.-Y. Choi, N. Gedik✉,  Physical Review B 100, 085108 (2019)

Terahertz-Field-Induced Ferroelectricity in Quantum Paraelectric SrTiO3

X. Li, T. Qiu, J. Zhang, E. Baldini, J. Lu, A. M. Rappe, K. A. Nelson✉,  Science 364, 1079-1082 (2019)
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Evidence for Topological Defects in a Photo-Induced Phase Transition

A. Zong, A. Kogar, Y.-Q. Bie, T. Rohwer, C. Lee, E. Baldini, E. Ergeçen, M. B. Yilmaz, B. Freelon, E. J. Sie, H. Zhou, J. Straquadine, P. Walmsley, P. E. Dolgirev, A. V. Rozhkov, I. R. Fisher, P. Jarillo-Herrero, B. V. Fine, N. Gedik✉,  Nature Physics 15, 27-31 (2019)
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2018

Phonon-Driven Selective Modulation of Exciton Oscillator Strengths in Anatase TiO2 Nanoparticles

E. Baldini✉, T. Palmieri, A. Dominguez, P. Ruello, A. Rubio, M. Chergui✉,  Nano Letters 18, 5007 (2018)
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Lattice-Mediated Magnetic Order Melting in TbMnO3

E. Baldini✉, T. Kubacka, B. P. P. Mallett, C. Ma, S. M. Koohpayeh, Y. Zhu, C. Bernhard, S. L. Johnson, F. Carbone, Physical Review B 97, 125149 (2018)

Clocking the Ultrafast Electron Cooling in Anatase Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles

E. Baldini, T. Palmieri, E. Pomarico, G. Auböck, M. Chergui✉,  ACS Photonics 5, 1241-1249 (2018)

2017

Coherent Generation of Symmetry-Forbidden Phonons by Light-Induced Electron-Phonon Interactions in Magnetite

S. Borroni, E. Baldini, V. M. Katukuri, A. Mann, K. Parlinski, D. Legut, C. Arrell, F. van Mourik, J. Teyssier, A. Kozlowski, P. Piekarz, O. V. Yazyev, A. M. Olés, J. Lorenzana, F. Carbone✉,  Physical Review B 96, 104308 (2017)

Real-Time Observation of Phonon-Mediated σ-π Interband Scattering in MgB2

E. Baldini, A. Mann, L. Benfatto✉, E. Cappelluti✉, A. Acocella, V. M. Silkin, S. V. Eremeev, A. B. Kuzmenko, S. Borroni, T. Tan, X. X. Xi, F. Zerbetto, R. Merlin, F. Carbone✉,  Physical Review Letters 119, 097002 (2017)

Ultrafast Interfacial Electron Injection Probed by a Substrate-Specific Excitonic Signature

E. Baldini, T. Palmieri, T. Rossi, M. Oppermann, E. Pomarico, G. Auböck, M. Chergui✉, Journal of American Chemical Society 139, 11584-11589 (2017)

Anomalous Anisotropic Exciton Temperature Dependence in Rutile TiO2

E. Baldini✉, A. Dominguez, L. Chiodo, E. Sheveleva, M. Yazdi-Rizi, C. Bernhard, A. Rubio, M. Chergui,  Physical Review B 96, 041204(R) (2017)

The LOUVRE Laboratory: State-of-the-Art Ultrafast Ultraviolet Spectroscopies for Molecular and Materials Science

M. Oppermann, N. S. Nagornova, A. Oriana, E. Baldini, L. Mewes, B. Bauer, T. Palmieri, T. Rossi, F. van Mourik, M. Chergui✉,  CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry 71, 5, 288-294 (2017)

Strongly Bound Excitons in Anatase TiO2 Single Crystals and Nanoparticles

E. Baldini✉, L. Chiodo, A. Dominguez, M. Palummo, S. Moser, M. Yazdi-Rizi, G. Auböck, B. P. P. Mallett, H. Berger, A. Magrez, C. Bernhard, M. Grioni, A. Rubio, M. Chergui✉,  Nature Communications 8, 13 (2017)
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Clocking the Onset of Bilayer Coherence in a High-TC Cuprate

E. Baldini, A. Mann, B. P. P. Mallett, C. Arrell, F. van Mourik, T. Wolf, D. Mihailovic, J. Tallon, C. Bernhard, J. Lorenzana, F. Carbone✉,  Physical Review B 95, 024501 (2017)

2016

A Versatile Setup for Ultrafast Broadband Optical Spectroscopy on Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems

E. Baldini, A. Mann, S. Borroni, C. Arrell, F. van Mourik, F. Carbone✉,  Structural Dynamics 3, 064301 (2016)

Probing the Coupling between a Doublon Excitation and the Charge-Density Wave in TaS2 by Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy

A. Mann, E. Baldini, A. Odeh, A. Magrez, H. Berger, F. Carbone✉,  Physical Review B 94, 115122 (2016)

2015

Filming the Formation and Fluctuation of Skyrmion Domains by Cryo-Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscopy

J. Rajeswari, H. Ping, G. F. Mancini, Y. Murooka, T. Latychevskaia, D. McGrouther, M. Cantoni, E. Baldini, J. S. White, A. Magrez, T. Giamarchi, H. M. Rønnow, F. Carbone✉, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, 46, 14212-14217 (2015)

Probing the Electron-Phonon Interaction in Correlated Systems with Coherent Lattice Fluctuation Spectroscopy

A. Mann, E. Baldini, A. Tramontana, E. Pomjakushina, K. Conder, C. Arrell, F. van Mourik, J. Lorenzana, F. Carbone✉ Physical Review B 92, 035147 (2015)

Femtosecond X-Ray Absorption Study of Electron Localization in Photoexcited Anatase TiO2

F. G. Santomauro, A. Lubcke, J. Rittmann, E. Baldini, A. Ferrer, M. Silatani, P. Zimmermann, S. Grubel, J. A. Johnson, S. O. Marianger, P. Beaud, D. Grolimund, C. Borca, G. Ingold, S. L. Johnson, M. Chergui✉  Scientific Reports 5, 14834 (2015)

2013

Nonlinear Characterization of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Waveguides and Analysis of Carrier Dynamics

C. Lacava, P. Minzioni, E. Baldini, L. Tartara, J. M. Fedeli, I. Cristiani,  Applied Physics Letters 103, 141103 (2013)

2011

Experimental Study of the Optical Forces Exerted by a Gaussian Beam within the Rayleigh Range

L. Ferrara, E. Baldini, P. Minzioni, F. Bragheri, C. Liberale, E. Di Fabrizio, I. Cristiani,  Journal of Optics 13, 075712 (2011)

 

Books

E. Baldini

Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Collective Excitations in Quantum Materials

Springer (2018)

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