Short, Strong Laser Pulses Advance Understanding of Strongly Correlated Materials
BERLIN, Germany, April 20, 2018 — In its search for materials and technologies that could help push the speed and storage limits of silicon-based computer technology, a team of researchers looked at a category of materials known as “strongly correlated systems,” so called because of the strong interactions between the electrons in such materials. In Mott insulators, for example, although the electrons should flow freely, the mutual interactions between the electrons in this “strongly correlated system” impede the flow of...