EXC 1074:  The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI): Structure, Dynamics and Control of Matter at the Atomic Scale

• Subject Area: Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
• Term: from 2012 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 194651731

• Final Report Year: 2020

Final Report Abstract

The world is not static, but dynamic. This simple perception directly leads to one of the greatest and most exciting challenges of contemporary science: observing the movement of atoms, molecules and electrons in complex matter on their characteristic time scales. The central objective of the CUI Cluster was to study with rigor and understand in depth the dynamics of fundamental physical and chemical processes on all relevant length and energy scales. To name a few prime achievements: we realised our vision of direct observation of atomic motion during the formation or breaking of a chemical bond, i.e., we watched chemistry happen. An equally far-reaching vision concerned the study of strongly correlated motions of electrons and nuclei and the control of this “dance” that determines the properties of solid state materials. We could reveal new details on the mechanism of light-driven high temperature superconductivity opening up new avenues to the concept of dynamically controlled emergence. The cluster was instrumental in realising new milestones for seriell nanocrystallography for protein dynamics now opening perspectives for watching rare events in biophysical function. Last but not least our pioneering work in dynamical control of quantum gas systems paved the way to the first direct measurements of topology. To realise our overarching visions we bridged concepts and methodologies for the study of ‚small’ well controlled quantum systems to ever greater length scales and complexity, from large molecules, to solid state and nano systems. The key enabling features were the ultrabright X-ray sources and imaging methods developed in Hamburg. Through strategic planning, Hamburg is now home to a critical mass of expertise ranging from ultrafast physics, X-ray physics, solid state physics, laser physics, quantum optics, and nano science. Major investments have been made through the creation of various scientific centers that are jointly supported by federal and state governments, by the Universität Hamburg, DESY, the Max Planck Society and the European XFEL GmbH. This investment has attracted some of the top groups world wide to join already well-established research groups to make Hamburg a world leader in photon and nanoscience and the centre for the study of atomically resolved dynamics. The ambitious research program was accompanied by numerous innovative efforts for fostering early-career scientists, gender equality and improved compatibility of work and family. The embedded graduate school constituted the essential element for both promoting the interdisciplinary aspects of our research as well as providing specific support for women scientists. The Cluster intensely communicated to the general public through well-crafted efforts – most prominently with our science in schools initiatives. All in all, the cluster put Hamburg in a pole position to now explore the small and fast to understand and control the large and complex.

Link to the final report

https://dx.doi.org/10.2314/GBV:1697041418

Publications

• Serial femtosecond crystallography of G protein–coupled receptors, Science 342, 1521 (2013)
  W. Liu, D. Wacker, et int. V. Cherezov
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1244142)
• Specific Chemical Reactivities of Spatially Separated 3- Aminophenol Conformers with Cold Ca+ Ions, Science 342, 98 (2013)
  Y.-P. Chang, K. Długołęcki, et int, S. Willitsch
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1242271)
• Ultrafast Dynamics of Magnetic Domain Structures Probed by Coherent Free-Electron Laser Light, Synch. Rad. News 26, 27 (2013)
  L. Müller, S. Schleitzer, et int. G. Grübel
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• Characterization of spatial coherence of synchrotron radiation with non-redundant arrays of apertures, J. Synchrotron Rad. 21, 722 (2014)
  P. Skopintsev, A. Singer, et int. I. A. Vartanyants
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577514006857)
• Controlling coherence via tuning of the population imbalance in a bipartite optical lattice, Nature Comm. 5, 5735 (2014)
  M. Di Liberto, T. Comparin, et int. C. Morais Smith
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• Femtosecond crystallography with ultrabright electrons and X-rays: capturing chemistry in action, Science 343, 6175 (2014)
  R. J. D. Miller
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1248488)
• Femtosecond x-ray-induced explosion of C60 at extreme intensity, Nature Commun. 5, 4281 (2014)
  B. F. Murphy, T. Osipov, et int. N. Berrah
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• Fermi Condensation Near van Hove Singularities Within the Hubbard Model on the Triangular Lattice, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070403 (2014)
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• Giant Spin Oscillations in an Ultracold Fermi Sea, Science 343, 157 (2014)
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• Imaging charge transfer in iodomethane upon x-ray photoabsorption, Science, 345, 288 (2014)
  B. Erk, R. Boll, et int, A. Rudenko
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• Nonlinear lattice dynamics as a basis for enhanced superconductivity in YBa2Cu3O6.5, Nature 516, 71 (2014)
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• Proposed formation and dynamical signature of a chiral Bose liquid in an optical lattice, Nature Communications 5, 3205 (2014)
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• Separating para and ortho water, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 53, 11965 (2014)
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• Serial time-resolved crystallography of photosystem II using a femtosecond X-ray laser, Nature 513, 261 (2014)
  Ch. Kupitz, S. Basu, et int, P. Fromme
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• Single shot coherence properties of the free-electron laser SAC- LA in the hard X-ray regime, Sci. Rep. 4, 5234 (2014)
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• Time-resolved imaging of domain pattern destruction and recovery via nonequilibrium magnetization states, Phys. Rev. B 90, 184417 (2014)
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• Time-resolved serial crystallography captures high-resolution intermediates of photoactive yellow protein, Science 346, 1242 (2014)
  J. Tenboer, S. Basu, et int., M. Schmidt
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• X-ray diffraction from isolated and strongly aligned gas-phase molecules with a free-electron laser, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 083002 (2014)
  J. Küpper, S. Stern, et int. H. N. Chapman
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• A universal approach to ultrasmall magneto-fluorescent nanohybrids, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54, 12468, (2015)
  A. Feld, J.P. Merket int. H. Weller
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• Coherent pulse synthesis: towards sub-cycle optical waveforms, Laser & Photonics Rev. 9, 129 (2015)
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• Control of spin-wave excitations in deterministic fractals, Phys. Rev. B 91, 064416 (2015)
  C. Swoboda, M. Martens, and G. Meier
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• Crystal structure of rhodopsin bound to arrestin by femtosecond X-ray laser, Nature 523, 561 (2015)
  Y. Kang, E. Zhou, et int., H. E. Xu
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• Direct observation of collective modes coupled to molecular orbital–driven charge transfer, Science 350, 1501 (2015)
  T. Ishikawa, S. A. Hayes, et int, R. J. D. Miller
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• Direct phasing of finite crystals illuminated with a freeelectron laser, Phys. Rev. X 5, 011015 (2015)
  R. A. Kirian, R. J. Bean, et int. H. N. Chapman
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.5.011015)
• Femtosecond-laser-induced modifications in Co/Pt multilayers studied with tabletop resonant magnetic scattering, Europhys. Lett. 109, 17001 (2015)
  C. Weier, R. Adam, et int. C. M. Schneider
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• Mapping atomic motions with ultrabright electrons: towards fundamental limits in space-time resolution, Faraday Discussions 177, 467 (2015)
  S. Manz, A. Casandruc, et int. R. J. D. Miller
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c4fd00204k)
• Nano-beam X-ray microscopy of dried colloidal films, Soft Matter 11, 5465 (2015)
  M. A. Schroer, C. Gutt, et int. G. Grübel
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c5sm00609k)
• Observation of a Superradiant Mott Insulator in the Dicke- Hubbard Model, Phys. Rev. Lett., 115, 230403 (2015)
  J. Klinder, H. Kessler, et int., A. Hemmerich
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.230403)
• Observing Chiral Superfluid Order by Matter-Wave Interference , Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 115301 (2015)
  T. Kock, M. Ölschläger, et int. A. Hemmerich
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.115301)
• Probing the transition state region in catalytic CO oxidation on Ru, Science 347, 978 (2015)
  H. Öström, H. Öberg, et int, A. Nilsson
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1261747)
• Solid-state chemistry on the nanoscale: ion transport through interstitial sites or vacancies? Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54, 14183 (2015)
  C. Bothe, A. Kornowski, et int. H. Weller
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201507263)
• Spin precession mapping at ferromagnetic resonance via nuclear resonant scattering of synchrotron radiation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 147601 (2015)
  L. Bocklage, C. Swoboda, et int. R. Röhlsberger
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.147601)
• Stabilization of magnetic helix in exchange-coupled thin films, Sci. Rep. 5, 16153 (2015)
  L. V. Dzemiantsova, G. Meier, and R. Röhlsberger
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/srep16153)
• Terahertz-driven linear electron acceleration, Nature Commun. 6, 8486 (2015)
  E.A. Nanni, W.Q.R. Huang, et int., F.X. Kärtner
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9486)
• The critical velocity in the BEC-BCS crossover, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 095301 (2015)
  W. Weimer, K. Morgener, et int. H. Moritz
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.095301)
• Two-state wave packet for strong field-free molecular orientation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 103003 (2015)
  S. Trippel, T. Mullins, et int. J. Küpper
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.103003)
• Ultrafast charge transfer of a valence double hole in glycine driven exclusively by nuclear motion, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 143002 (2015)
  Z. Li, O. Vendrell, R. Santra
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.143002)
• Band gap renormalization of diamondoids: vibrational coupling and excitonic effects, New J. Phys. 18, 113052 (2016)
  P. Han, G. Bester
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/11/113052)
• Direct observation of isolated Damon-Eshbach and backward volume spin-wave packets in ferromagnetic microstripes, Sci. Rep. 6, 22117 (2016)
  P. Wessels, A. Vogel, et int. M. Drescher
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/srep22117)
• Dynamics from noisy data with extreme timing uncertainty, Nature 532, 471 (2016)
  R. Fung, A. M. Hanna, et int. A. Ourmazd
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17627)
• Experimental Reconstruction of the Berry Curvature in a Floquet Bloch Band , Science 352, 1091 (2016)
  N. Fläschner, B. Rem, et int. C. Weitenberg
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad4568)
• Femtosecond structural dynamics drives the trans/cis isomerization in photoactive yellow protein, Science 352, 725 (2016)
  K. Pande, C. D. M. Hutchison, et int. M. Schmidt
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad5081)
• Macromolecular diffractive imaging using imperfect crystals, Nature 530, 202 (2016)
  K. Ayyer, O. M. Yefanov, et int, H. N. Chapman
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16949)
• Macromolecular diffractive imaging using imperfect crystals, Nature 530, 202 (2016)
  K. Ayyer, O. M. Yefanov, et int. H. N. Chapman
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16949)
• Metal-semiconductor nanoparticle hybrids formed by selforganization: a platform to address exciton-plasmon coupling, Nano Lett. 16, 4811 (2016)
  C. Strelow, T. S. Theuerholz, et int. H. Lange
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b00982)
• Observing Solvation Dynamics with Simultaneous Femtosecond X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy and X-ray Scattering, J. Phys. Chem. B 120, 1158 (2016)
  K. Haldrup, W. Gawelda, et int. C. Bressler
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b12471)
• Parametric amplification of a superconducting plasma wave, Nature Physics 12, 1012 (2016)
  S. Rajasekaran, E. Casandruc, et int. A. Cavalleri
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/NPHYS3819)
• Possible light-induced superconductivity in K3C60 at high temperature, Nature 530, 461 (2016)
  M. Mitrano, A. Cantaluppi, et int, A. Cavalleri
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16522)
• Spatial coherence determination from the Fourier analysis of a resonant soft X-ray magnetic speckle pattern, Opt. Express 24, 23162 (2016)
  K. Bagschik, R. Frömter, et int. H. P. Oepen
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.24.023162)
• Stabilizing effect of TMAO on globular PNIPAM states: preferential attraction induces preferential hydration, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18, 31459 (2016)
  M. A. Schroer, J. Michalowsky, et int. G. Grübel
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c6cp05991k)
• Study of heat transfer dynamics from gold nanorods to the environment via time-resolved infrared spectroscopy, ACS Nano 10, 2144 (2016)
  S. C. Nguyen, Q. Zhang, et int. A. P. Alivisatos
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b06623)
• Theory of Enhanced Interlayer Tunneling in Optically Driven High-Tc Superconductors, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 227001 (2016)
  Junichi Okamoto, A. Cavalleri, L. Mathey
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.227001)
• Topological Varma superfluid in optical lattices, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 163001 (2016)
  M. Di Liberto, A. Hemmerich, C. Morais Smith
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.163001)
• Ultrafast imaging of photochemical dynamics: roadmap to a new conceptual basis for chemistry, Faraday Discussions 194, 777 (2016)
  R. J. D. Miller
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c6fd00241b)
• A comparison of photocatalytic activities of gold nanoparticles following plasmonic and interband excitation and a strategy for harnessing interband hot carriers for solution phase photocatalysis, ACS Central Science 3, 482 (2017)
  J. Zhao, S. C. Nguyen, et int. F. D. Toste
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.7b00122)
• Anomalous spin precession under a geometrical torque, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 227203 (2017)
  C. Stahl and M. Potthoff,
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.227203)
• Atomic structure of granulin determined from native nanocrystalline granulovirus using an x-ray free-electron laser, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 114, 2247 (2017)
  C. Gati, D. Oberthuer, et int. H. N. Chapman
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1609243114)
• Attosecond interferometry with self-amplified spontaneous emission of a free-electron laser, Nature Communications 8, 15626 (2017)
  S. Usenko, A. Przystawik, et int. T. Laarmann
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15626)
• Coherent ultrafast lattice-directed reaction dynamics of triiodide anion photodissociation, Nature Chemistry 9, 516 (2017)
  R. Xian, G. Corthey, et int. R. J. D. Miller
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/NCHEM.2751)
• Diffusive dynamics during the high-to-low density transition in amorphous ice, PNAS 114, 8193 (2017)
  F. Perakis, K. Amann-Winkel, et. int. A. Nilsson
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705303114)
• Femtosecond response of polyatomic molecules to ultra-intense hard X-rays, Nature, 546, 129 (2017)
  A. Rudenko, L Inhester, et int, R. Santra, D. Rolles
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22373)
• Field-controlled photoemission from plasmonic nanoparticles, Nature Phys. 13, 335 (2017)
  W. P. Putnam, R. G. Hobbs, et int. F. X. Kärtner
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3978)
• Incoherent diffractive imaging via intensity correlations of hard X rays, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 053401 (2017)
  A. Classen, K. Ayyer, et int. J. V. Zanthier
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.053401)
• Mix-and-diffuse serial synchrotron crystallography, IUCrJ 4, 769 (2017)
  K. R. Beyerlein, D. Dierksmeyer, et int. D. Oberthuer
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252517013124)
• Nature does not rely on long-lived electronic quantum coherence for photosynthetic energy transfer, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 114, 8493 (2017)
  H.-G. Duan, V. I. Prokhorenko, et int. R. J. D. Miller
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1702261114)
• Nuclear resonant surface diffraction of synchrotron radiation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 237204 (2017)
  K. Schlage, L. Dzemiantsova, et int. R. Röhlsberger
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.237204)
• Optical melting of the transverse Josephson plasmon: A comparison between bilayer and trilayer cuprates, Phys. Rev. B 95, 104508 (2017)
  W. Hu, D. Nicoletti, et int. A. Cavalleri
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.104508)
• Pink-beam serial crystallography, Nature Commun. 8, 1281 (2017)
  A. Meents, M. O. Wiedorn, et int. H. N. Chapman
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01417-3)
• Properties of water confined in periodic mesoporous organosilicas: nanoimprinting the local structure, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56, 12348 (2017)
  J. B. Mietner, F. J. Brieler, et. int. M. Fröba
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201705707)
• Surface-bound states in nanodiamonds, Phys. Rev. B 95 195428 (2017)
  P. Han, D. Antonov, et int. G. Bester
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.195428)
• Unraveling the structure of ultracold mesoscopic molecular ions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 063001 (2017)
  J. M. Schurer, A. Negretti, P. Schmelcher
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.063001)
• Absolute strong-field ionization probabilities of ultracold rubidium atoms, Commun. Phys. 1, 32 (2018)
  P. Wessels, B. Ruff, et int. J. Simonet
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-018-0032-5)
• Born-Bogoliubov-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon hierarchy for ultracold bosonic systems, Phys. Rev. A 98, 013629 (2018)
  S. Krönke and P. Schmelcher
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.013629)
• Coherent X-rays reveal the influence of cage effects on ultrafast water dynamics, Nat. Commun. 9, 1917 (2018)
  F. Perakis, G. Camisasca, et. int. A. Nilsson
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04330-5)
• Control of nuclear dynamics through conical intersections and electronic coherences, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 123001 (2018)
  C. Arnold, O. Vendrell, et int. R. Santra
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.123001)
• Dynamical control of order in a cavity-BEC system, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 153001 (2018)
  J. G. Cosme, C. Georges, et int. L. Mathey
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.153001)
• Effective Heisenberg Model and Exchange Interaction for Strongly Correlated Systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 037204 (2018)
  E. A. Stepanov, S. Brener, et int. A. I. Lichtenstein, M. I. Katsnelson
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.037204)
• Effective Heisenberg Model and Exchange Interaction for Strongly Correlated Systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 037204 (2018)
  E. A. Stepanov, S. Brener, et int. M. I. Katsnelson
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.037204)
• Excitonic Instability and Pseudogap Formation in Nodal Line Semimetal ZrSiS, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 216401 (2018)
  A. N. Rudenko, E. A. Stepanov, et int. M. I. Katsnelson
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.216401)
• Femtosecond X-ray coherent diffraction of aligned amyloid fibrils on low background graphene, Nature Comm. 9, 1836 (2018)
  C. Seuring, K. Ayyer, et int. H. N. Chapman
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04116-9)
• Heterogeneous local order in self-assembled nanoparticle films revealed by X-ray cross correlation, IUCrJ 5, 354 (2018)
  F. Lehmkühler, F. Schulz, et int. G. Grübel
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252518005407)
• Incoherent nuclear resonant scattering from a standing spin wave, Sci. Rep. 8, 11261 (2018)
  J. Gollwitzer, L. Bocklage, et int. R. Röhlsberger
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29596-z)
• Insights into the formation mechanism of two-dimensional lead halide nanostructures, Nanoscale 10, 4442 (2018)
  E. Klein, R. Lesyuk, C. Klinke
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1039/c7nr09564c)
• Light-induced coherence in an atom-cavity system, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 220405 (2018)
  C. Georges, J. G. Cosme, et int. A. Hemmerich
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.220405)
• Megahertz serial crystallography, Nature Commum. 9, 4025 (2018)
  M. Wiedorn, D. Oberthür, et int. A. Barty
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06156-7)
• Molecular polarizability anisotropy of liquid water revealed by terahertz-induced transient orientation, Nature Commun. 9, 2142 (2018)
  P. Zalden, L. Song, et int. C. Bressler
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04481-5)
• Observation of different reactivities of para and ortho-water towards trapped diazenylium ions, Nature Commun. 9, 2096 (2018)
  A. Kilaj, H. Gao, et int. S. Willitsch
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04483-3)
• Observation of dynamical vortices after quenches in a system with topology, Nature Physics 14, 265 (2018)
  N. Fläschner, D. Vogel, et int. C. Weitenberg
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-017-0013-8)
• Probing optically silent superfluid stripes in cuprates, Science 359, 575 (2018)
  S. Rajasekaran, J. Okamoto, et int, A. Cavalleri
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan3438)
• Probing the Interatomic Potential of Solids by Strong- Field Nonlinear Phononics, Nature, 555, 79 (2018)
  A. von Hoegen, R. Mankowsky, et int, A. Cavalleri
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.138/nature25484)
• Symmetry breakdown of electron emission in extreme ultraviolet photoionization of argon, Nature Commun. 9, 4659 (2018)
  M. Ilchen, G. Hartmann, et int. M. Meyer
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07152-7)
• Transferring the entatic-state principle to copper complexes, Nature Chemistry 10, 355 (2018)
  B. Dicke, A. Hoffmann, et int. S. Herres-Pawlis
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/NCHEM.2916)
• Two-Dimensional Homogeneous Fermi Gases, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060402 (2018)
  K. Hueck, N. Luick, et int. H. Moritz
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.060402)
• Uniaxial stress flips the natural quantization axis of a quantum dot for integrated quantum photonics, Nature Comm. 9, 3058 (2018)
  X.-Y. Yuan, F. W. Brinkmann, et int. A. Rastelli
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05499-5)
• Chemistry of shape-controlled iron oxide nanocrystal formation, ACS Nano 13, 162 (2019)
  A. Feld, A. Weimer, et int. H. Weller
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.8b05032)
• Energy transfer can trigger multiexciton recombination in dense quantum dot ensembles, Small 15, 1803798 (2019)
  M. Rafipoor, R. Koll, et int. H. Lange
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201803798)
• Micron-size two dimensional methylammonium lead halide perovskites, ACS Nano 13, 6955 (2019)
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