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We investigate superconductivity emerging in the photodoped Mott insulating Hubbard model using steady-state dynamical mean-field theory implemented on the real-frequency axis. By employing high-order strong-coupling impurity solvers, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-20 Lei Geng , Aaram J. Kim , Philipp Werner

This work investigates amplitude-dependent nonlinear corrections to the dissipative conductivity in superconductors, using the Keldysh--Usadel theory of nonequilibrium superconductivity, which captures the nonequilibrium dynamics of both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-25 Takayuki Kubo

We analyze the optical pump-probe reflection and transmission coefficients when the photoinduced response depends nonlinearly on the incident pump intensity. Under these conditions, we expect the photoconductivity depth profile to change…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-30 Leya Lopez , Derek G. Sahota , J. Steven Dodge

A theory of phonon-mediated superconductivity in strong-coupling amorphous materials is developed based on an effective description of structural disorder and its effect on the vibrational spectrum. The theory accounts for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-05 Matteo Baggioli , Chandan Setty , Alessio Zaccone

We analyze Cooper pairing instabilities in strongly driven electron-phonon systems. The light-induced non-equilibrium state of phonons results in a simultaneous increase of the superconducting coupling constant and the electron scattering.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-16 Michael Knap , Mehrtash Babadi , Gil Refael , Ivar Martin , Eugene Demler

Ultrafast time-resolved optical spectroscopy in high-temperature superconductors enables the direct real-time measurement of non-equilibrium quasiparticle recombination dynamics. In addition, it also gives detailed information about the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Mihailovic , J. Demsar

Optical excitation at terahertz frequencies has emerged as an effective means to manipulate complex solids dynamically. In the molecular solid K3C60, coherent excitation of intramolecular vibrations was shown to transform the high…

An experiment is proposed to stimulate a superconducting thin film with terahertz (THz) acoustic waves, which is a regime not previously tested. For a thin film on a piezoelectric substrate, this can be achieved by coupling the substrate to…

General Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Alan M. Kadin , Steven B. Kaplan

We discuss a systematic uncertainty in time-resolved optical conductivity measurements that becomes important at high pump intensities. We show that common optical nonlinearities can distort the photoconductivity depth profile, and by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-18 J. Steven Dodge , Leya Lopez , Derek G. Sahota

While there are many different mechanisms which have been proposed to understand the physics behind light induced ``superconductivity", what seems to be common to the class of materials in which this is observed are strong pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-08 Ke Wang , Zhiqiang Wang , Qijin Chen , K. Levin

Coherent optical excitation of certain phonon modes in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6+x}$ has been shown to induce superconducting-like interlayer coherence at temperatures higher than $T_c$. Recent work has associated these phenomena to a parametric…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-15 A. Ribak , M. Buzzi , D. Nicoletti , R. Singla , Y. Liu , S. Nakata , B. Keimer , A. Cavalleri

Photoexcitations on a superconductor using ultrafast nir-infrared (NIR) pulses, whose energy is much higher than the superconducting energy gap, are expected to suppress/destroy superconductivity by breaking Cooper pairs and excite…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-19 S. J. Zhang , Z. X. Wang , D. Wu , Q. M. Liu , L. Y. Shi , T. Lin , S. L. Li , P. C. Dai , T. Dong , N. L. Wang

Through the integration of semiconductors or complex oxides into metal resonators, tunable metamaterials have been achieved by a change of environment using an external stimulus. Metals provide high conductivity to realize a strong resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-17 Ranjan Singh , Jie Xiong , Abul K. Azad , Hao Yang , Stuart A. Trugman , Q. X. Jia , Antoinette J. Taylor , Hou-Tong Chen

The control of non-equilibrium phenomena in complex solids is an important research frontier, encompassing new effects like light induced superconductivity. Here, we show that coherent optical excitation of molecular vibrations in the…

The study of photoexcited strongly correlated materials is attracting growing interest since their rich phase diagram often translates into an equally rich out-of-equilibrium behavior, including non-thermal phases and photoinduced phase…

Using a nonequilibrium implementation of the Lanczos-based exact diagonalisation technique we study the possibility of the light-induced superconducting phase coherence in a solid state system after an ultrafast optical excitation. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-03-18 Nikolaj Bittner , Takami Tohyama , Stefan Kaiser , Dirk Manske

Driving a conventional superconductor with an appropriately tuned classical electromagnetic field can lead to an enhancement of superconductivity via a redistribution of the quasiparticles into a more favorable non-equilibrium distribution…

Ultrathin superconductors of different materials are becoming a powerful platform to find mechanisms for enhancement of superconductivity, exploiting shape resonances in different superconducting properties. Here we evaluate the…

We show that optically pumped semiconductors can exhibit superconductivity. We illustrate this phenomenon in the case of a two-band semiconductor tunnel-coupled to broad-band reservoirs and driven by a continuous wave laser. More…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 Garry Goldstein , Camille Aron , Claudio Chamon

Optical excitation in the cuprates has been shown to induce transient superconducting correlations above the thermodynamic transition temperature, $T_C$, as evidenced by the terahertz frequency optical properties in the non-equilibrium…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-25 B. Liu , M. Först , M. Fechner , D. Nicoletti , J. Porras , T. Loew , B. Keimer , A. Cavalleri