Research Group of Prof. Dr. Stefan Mathias
Publication list
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Link to ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1255-521X
submitted
The role of non-equilibrium populations in dark exciton formation
arXiv:2505.06074
Algorithmic approaches to avoiding bad local minima in nonconvex inconsistent feasibility
arXiv:2502.19052
Table-top three-dimensional photoemission orbital tomography with a femtosecond extreme ultraviolet light source
arXiv:2502.18269
Hybrid Frenkel-Wannier excitons facilitate ultrafast energy transfer at a 2D-organic interface
arXiv:2411.14993
2025
Observation of Floquet states in graphene
Nature Physics 21, 1093–1099 (2025) -- DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02889-7
Pathways to Bubble and Skyrmion Lattice Formation in Fe/Gd Multilayers
Physical Review B 112, 064413 (2025) -- DOI: 10.1103/wgrf-cw1t
Ultrafast nano-imaging of dark excitons
Nature Photonics 19, 187–194 (2025) -- DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01568-y
Interlayer charge transfer in graphene-2D polyimide heterostructures
2D Materials 12, 025011 (2025) -- DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/adac6e
Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy at surfaces
Surface Science 753, 122631 (2025) -- DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2024.122631
2024
Dynamics of electronic phase separation at the laser-induced insulator-metal transition in (La0.6Pr0.4)0.7Ca0.3MnO3
Phys. Rev. Research 6, 043168 (2024) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.043168
All optical control of bubble and skyrmion breathing
Physical Review Letters 133, 156701 (2024) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.156701
Probing excitons with time-resolved momentum microscopy
Advances in Physics X 9, 2378722 (2024) -- DOI: 10.1080/23746149.2024.2378722
Fast spectroscopic imaging using extreme ultraviolet interferometry
Optics Express 32, 28644-28654 (2024) -- DOI: 10.1364/OE.523102
A minimalist approach to 3D photoemission orbital tomography: algorithms and data requirements
New Journal of Physics 26, 043024 (2024) -- DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ad3e22
Laser-induced real-space topology control of spin wave resonances
Advanced Functional Materials 34, 2313619 (2024) -- DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202313619
Disentangling the multiorbital contributions of excitons by photoemission exciton tomography
Nature Communications 15, 1804 (2024) -- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45973-x
Probing electron-hole Coulomb correlations in the exciton landscape of a twisted semiconductor heterostructure
Science Advances 10, eadi1323 (2024) -- DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi1323
Verification of ultrafast spin transfer effects in FeNi alloys
Communications Physics 7, 74 (2024) -- DOI: 10.1038/s42005-024-01555-3
Unraveling Femtosecond Spin and Charge Dynamics with EUV T-MOKE Spectroscopy
Phys. Rev. Research 6, 013107 (2024) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.013107
2023
Hybrid Exciton Signatures in ARPES Spectra of van der Waals Materials
ACS Photonics 10, 3570–3575 (2023) -- DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.3c00599
Ultrafast dynamics of bright and dark excitons in monolayer WSe2 and heterobilayer WSe2/MoS2
2D Materials 10, 035039 (2023) -- DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/ace067
Fast Twist Angle Mapping of Bilayer Graphene Using Spectroscopic Ellipsometric Contrast Microscopy
Nano Letters 23, 5506–5513 (2023) -- DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c00619
Energy Relaxation in (La0.6Pr0.4)0.7Ca0.3MnO3 Films across the metal-insulator transition
Physical Review B 107, 085115 (2023) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.085115
2022
Formation of moiré interlayer excitons in space and time
Nature 608, 499 (2022) -- DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04977-7
Far-from-equilibrium electron-phonon interactions in optically-excited graphene
Nano Letters 22, 4897–4904 (2022) -- DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c01325
Multidimensional multiphoton momentum microscopy of the anisotropic Ag(110) surface
Physical Review B 105, 075105 (2022) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.075105
2021
Ultrafast element-resolved magneto-optics using a fiber-laser-driven extreme ultraviolet light source
Review of Scientific Instruments 92, 065107 (2021) -- DOI: 10.1063/5.0050883
Momentum and energy dissipation of hot electrons in a Pb/Ag(111) quantum well system
Physical Review B 104, 104308 (2021) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.104308
Orbital ordered phase transition in Pr1-xCaxMnO3 probed by photovoltaics
Physical Review B 103, 235122 (2021) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.235122
2020
Electromagnetic dressing of the electron energy spectrum of Au(111) at high momenta
Physical Review B 102, 161403(R) (2020) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.161403
Time-Resolved Momentum Microscopy with a 1 MHz High-Harmonic Extreme Ultraviolet Beamline
Review of Scientific Instruments 91, 063905 (2020) -- DOI: 10.1063/5.0006531
Efficiency of ultrafast optically induced spin transfer in Heusler compounds
Physical Review Research 2, 023199 (2020) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023199
Efficient orbital imaging based on ultrafast momentum microscopy and sparsity-driven phase retrieval
New Journal of Physics 22, 063012 (2020) -- DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab8aae
Ultrafast optically induced spin transfer in ferromagnetic alloys
Science Advances 6, eaay8717 (2020) -- DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay8717
Direct light-induced spin transfer between different elements in a spintronic Heusler material via femtosecond laser excitation
Science Advances 6, eaaz1100 (2020) -- DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz1100
Ultrafast magnetization dynamics of Mn-doped L1_0 FePt with spatial inhomogeneity
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 502, 166477 (2020) -- DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2020.166477
Aperiodically ordered nano-graphene on the quasicrystalline substrate
New Journal of Physics 22, 093056 (2020) -- DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/abb342
Ultrafast Charge-Transfer Exciton Dynamics in C60 Thin Films
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 124, 23579−23587 (2020) -- DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c08011
2019
Development of an analytical simulation framework for angle-resolved photoemission spectra
Physical Review Materials 3, 123801 (2019) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.123801
Strong modification of the transport level alignment in organic materials after optical excitation
Nature Communications 10, 1470 (2019) -- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09136-7
A case study for the formation of stanene on a metal surface
Communications Physics 2, 12 (2019) -- DOI: 10.1038/s42005-019-0111-2
2018
Induced vs. intrinsic magnetic moments in ultrafast magnetization dynamics
Physical Review B 98, 174419 (2018) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.174419
Structure and electronic properties of the (√3×√3)R30° SnAu2/Au(111) surface alloy
Physical Review B 98, 205419 (2018) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.205419
Energy enhancement of the target surface electron by using a 200 TW sub-picosecond laser
Optics Letters 43, 3909 (2018) -- DOI: 10.1364/OL.43.003909
2017
Nanoscale magnetic imaging using circularly polarized high-harmonic radiation
Science Advances 3, eaao4641 (2017) -- DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aao4641
Speed and efficiency of femtosecond spin current injection into a non-magnetic material
Physical Review B 96, 100403(R) (2017) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.100403
Distinguishing attosecond electron-electron scattering and screening in transition metals
PNAS 114, E5300–E5307 (2017) -- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1706466114
Ultrafast magnetization dynamics in Nickel: Impact of pump photon energy
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 29, 244002 (2017) -- DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/aa6f73
Band-structure evolution during the ultrafast ferromagnetic-paramagnetic phase transition in Cobalt
Science Advances 3, e1602094 (2017) -- DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602094
Revealing the subfemtosecond dynamics of orbital angular momentum in nanoplasmonic vortices
Science 355, 1187 (2017) -- DOI: 10.1126/science.aaj1699
2016
Stoner vs. Heisenberg: Ultrafast exchange reduction and magnon generation during laser-induced demagnetization
Physical Review B 94, 220408(R) (2016) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.220408
Normal-Incidence PEEM Imaging of Propagating Modes in a Plasmonic Nanocircuit
Nano Letters 16, 6832 (2016) -- DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b02569
Self-amplified photo-induced gap quenching in a correlated electron material
Nature Communications 7, 12902 (2016) -- DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12902
Spin-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy using femtosecond extreme ultraviolet light pulses from high-order harmonic generation
Review of Scientific Instruments 87, 043903 (2016) -- DOI: 10.1063/1.4946782
2015
Controlling the spin-texture of topological insulators with organic molecules
Nano Letters 15, 6022 (2015) -- DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02213
Topological states on the gold surface
Nature Communications 6, 10167 (2015) -- DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10167
Controlling the electronic structure of graphene using surface-adsorbate interactions
Physical Review B 92, 041407(R) (2015) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.041407
Spin structure of Rashba-split electronic states of Bi overlayers on Cu(111)
Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 201, 47-52 (2015) -- DOI: 10.1016/j.elspec.2014.09.003
2014
Kerr- and Faraday microscope for space- and time-resolved studies
European Physical Journal B 87, 219 (2014) -- DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2014-50257-3
Time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with optimized high-harmonic pulses using frequency-doubled Ti:Sapphire lasers
Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 195, 231 (2014) -- DOI: 10.1016/j.elspec.2014.04.013
2013
Controlling the Competition between Optically Induced Ultrafast Spin-Flip Scattering and Spin Transport in Magnetic Multilayers
Physical Review Letters 110, 197201 (2013) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.197201
Organische Spinventile
Physik in unserer Zeit 44, 111 (2013) -- DOI: 10.1002/piuz.201390042
Ultrafast element-specific magnetization dynamics of complex magnetic materials on a table-top
Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 189, 164-170 (2013) -- DOI: 10.1016/j.elspec.2012.11.013
Spin-dependent trapping of electrons at spinterfaces
Nature Physics 9, 242 (2013) -- DOI: 10.1038/nphys2548
Ultrafast electron dynamics in a metallic quantum well with spin splitting
Physical Review B 88, 075148 (2013) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.075148
Probing the orbital angular momentum structure of the quantum-well system Pb/Cu(111) by circular dichroism in angle-resolved two photon photoemission spectroscopy
Physical Review B 87, 235438 (2013) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.235438
Reply to Comment on Ultrafast Demagnetization Measurements using Extreme Ultraviolet Light: Comparison of Electronic and Magnetic Contributions
Physical Review X 3, 038002 (2013) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.038002
Ultrafast material science probed using coherent x-ray pulses from high-harmonic generation
Book chapter in "Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics", pages 149-175, Editors R. Thomson, C. Leburn, D. Reid (2013) -- DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00017-6_7
2012
Ultrafast magnetization enhancement in metallic multilayers driven by superdiffusive spin current
Nature Communications 3, 1037-6 (2012) -- DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2029
Probing the timescale of the exchange interaction in a ferromagnetic alloy
PNAS 109, 4792-4797 (2012) -- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201371109
This publication was highlighted with a Brennpunkt article by U. Bovensiepen -- Physik Journal 6, p. 26 (2012)
Ultrafast Demagnetization Measurements using Extreme Ultraviolet Light: Comparison of Electronic and Magnetic Contributions
Physical Review X 2, 011005 (2012) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.011005
This publication was highlighted with a Physics Viewpoint by J.-Y. Bigot, Physics 5, 11 (2012) -- https://physics.aps.org/articles/v5/11
2011
Collapse of long-range charge order tracked by time-resolved photoemission at high momentum
Nature 471, 490 (2011) -- DOI: 10.1038/nature09829
2010
Evaporation temperature-tuned physical vapor deposition growth engineering of one-dimensional non-Fermi liquid tetrathiofulvalene tetracyanoquinodimethane thin films
Applied Physics Letters 97, 111906 (2010) -- DOI: 10.1063/1.3489098
Probing adsorbate dynamics with chirped laser pulses in a single-pulse scheme
Physical Review B 82, 165430 (2010) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.165430
Tailoring the spin properties of metal/organic interfaces by means of alkali metal doping
Physical Review Letters 104, 217602 (2010) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.217602
Quantum-well induced giant spin-orbit splitting
Physical Review Letters 104, 066802 (2010) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.066802
Band structure dependence of hot-electron lifetimes in a Pb/Cu(111) quantum-well system
Physical Review B 81, 155429 (2010) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.155429
Spectroscopy and population decay of a van der Waals gap state in layered TiSe2
Physical Review B 82, 035422 (2010) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.035422
Time-resolved photoemission at surfaces using femtosecond XUV-pulses
Book contribution in Dynamics at Solid Surfaces and Interfaces (Ed.: U. Bovensiepen, H. Petek, M. Wolf) (2010)
DOI: 10.1002/9783527633418.ch21
2009
Ultrafast Demagnetization Dynamics at the M Edges of Magnetic Elements Observed Using a Tabletop High-Harmonic Soft X-Ray Source
Physical Review Letters 103, 257402 (2009) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.257402
Time and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy using femtosecond visible and HHG light
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 148, 012042 (2009) -- DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/148/1/012042
Quantum Oscillations in Coupled Two-Dimensional Electron Systems
Physical Review Letters 103, 026802 (2009) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.026802
2008
Lifetime of an adsorbate excitation modified by a tunable two-dimensional substrate
Physical Review B 78, 245410 (2008) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.245410
The nature of a nonlinear excitation pathway from the Shockley surface state as probed by chirped pulse two photon photoemission
New Journal of Physics 11, 013016 (2008) -- DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/1/013016
Direct Measurement of Core-Level Relaxation Dynamics on a Surface-Adsorbate System
Physical Review Letters 101, 046101 (2008) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.046101
2007
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with a femtosecond high-harmonic light source using a two-dimensional imaging electron analyzer
Review of Scientific Instruments 78, 083105 (2007) -- DOI: 10.1063/1.2773783
2006
Quantum Well Wave-Function Localization and the Electron-Phonon Interaction in Ag Nanofilms
Physical Review Letters 97, 236809 (2006) -- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.236809
Space charge effects in photoemission with a low repetition, high intensity femtosecond laser source
Journal of Applied Physics 100, 024912 (2006) -- DOI: 10.1063/1.2217985
Morphological modifications of Ag/Cu(111) probed by photoemission spectroscopy of quantum well states and the Shockley surface state
Applied Physics A 82, 439-445 (2006) -- DOI: 10.1007/s00339-005-3369-z