journal article·2026-06

Turning excitons to the dark side

Yuchen Han, David Hsieh

Nature Materials· Volume 25· Issue 6
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Abstract

Hubbard excitons capture the many-body correlations of Mott insulators. Using ultrafast light, their quantum wavefunction can be coherently rotated, opening a path towards optical quantum control and sensing in strongly correlated materials.
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OpenAlex topics: Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates · Topological Materials and Phenomena · Strong Light-Matter Interactions

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