We are a research group at Aarhus University that exploits ultra-short pulses of laser light from across the entire electromagnetic spectrum to explore and control the properties of materials.
Our focus is on understanding the properties of "quantum materials", materials that show interesting and unexpected phenomena at unusually high temperatures, such as high temperature superconductivity. By using photons that range in energy from 5 meV to 15 keV we can study atomic, spin and electron dynamics on nanometer lengthscales and femtosecond timescales.
Our work exploits laboratory sources of laser light, as well as the use of X-ray lasers around the world.
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Brayan Elian Castilblanco Ortigoza completes his masters thesis on linear and second harmonic reflection anisotropy on Tellurium. Congratuations Eilian
06/2026
We have submitted a new pre-print examining the origins of the ultrafast phase transition in VO2 from a thermodynamic perspective on the arXiv.
03/2026
We have several new group members.
Noah Tettenborn starts as a PhD student to study the non-linear optical properties of quantum materials
Brayan Elian Castilblanco Ortigoza starts a masters project on “Symmetry analysis of the light induced changes in the linear and nonlinear response of Tellurium”.
and Asbjørn Bloch Rosenvinge, Louise de Neergaard Ravn, Aksel Lind Vejbæk start bachelors projects on coherent phonons in quantum materials.
02/2026
Our latest work from SwissFEL on the role of surface heterogeneity on the melting of orbital ordering has been published in Nature Materials.
10/2025
Our latest work on coherent phonons in the layered manganite Pr0.5Ca1.5MnO4 has just been submitted to the arXiv. All the data for this work is open access on a zenodo repository.
08/2025
