The 2025 Roadmap to Ultrafast Dynamics: Frontiers of Theoretical and Computational Modelling
Abstract
The exploration of ultrafast phenomena is a frontier of condensed matter research, where the interplay of theory, computation, and experiment is unveiling new opportunities for understanding and engineering quantum materials. With the advent of advanced experimental techniques and computational tools, it has become possible to probe and manipulate nonequilibrium processes at unprecedented temporal and spatial resolutions, providing insights into the dynamical behavior of matter under extreme conditions. These capabilities have the potential to revolutionize fields ranging from optoelectronics and quantum information to catalysis and energy storage. This Roadmap captures the collective progress and vision of leading researchers, addressing challenges and opportunities across key areas of ultrafast science. Contributions in this Roadmap span the development of ab initio methods for time-resolved spectroscopy, the dynamics of driven correlated systems, the engineering of materials in optical cavities, and the adoption of FAIR principles for data sharing and analysis. Together, these efforts highlight the interdisciplinary nature of ultrafast research and its reliance on cutting-edge methodologies, including quantum electrodynamical density-functional theory, correlated electronic structure methods, nonequilibrium Green's function approaches, quantum and ab initio simulations.
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@article{arxiv.2501.06752,
title = {The 2025 Roadmap to Ultrafast Dynamics: Frontiers of Theoretical and Computational Modelling},
author = {Fabio Caruso and Michael A. Sentef and Claudio Attaccalite and Michael Bonitz and Claudia Draxl and Umberto De Giovannini and Martin Eckstein and Ralph Ernstorfer and Michael Fechner and Myrta Grüning and Hannes Hübener and Jan-Philip Joost and Dominik M. Juraschek and Christoph Karrasch and Dante Marvin Kennes and Simone Latini and I-Te Lu and Ofer Neufeld and Enrico Perfetto and Laurenz Rettig and Ronaldo Rodrigues Pela and Angel Rubio and Joseph F. Rudzinski and Michael Ruggenthaler and Davide Sangalli and Michael Schüler and Samuel Shallcross and Sangeeta Sharma and Gianluca Stefanucci and Philipp Werner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.06752},
year = {2025}
}