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Dec 19, 2024 Our work with Jack and Emil on ultrafast PDF has been featured as one of Brookhaven’s top 10 discoveries of 2024.
Dec 13, 2024 Yao’s manuscript on Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering in topological semimetal FeSi has been accepted!
Dec 13, 2024 Our PRX Perspective Exploring Quantum Materials with Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering is out in Physical Review X.
Nov 26, 2024 A video highlighting our experiment at hRIXS at XFEL is out here.
Oct 18, 2024 The preprint for our PRX Perspective Exploring Quantum Materials with Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering has been posted on the arXiv.
Sep 23, 2024 See here for a highlight on our recent Photonic Science Laue purchase
Sep 23, 2024 Congratulations to former group member Gilberto Fabbris and collaborator Xiaoqian Chen on winning DOE Early Career Awards!
Sep 10, 2024 Mark is speaking at the Inelastic X-Ray Scattering 2024 Conference.
Aug 19, 2024 A Brookhaven Highlight was just published on Wei’s excitons in NiPS3 paper.
Aug 10, 2024 Mark will be speaking at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences Users Meeting in Knoxville on August 12th.
Aug 4, 2024 Valery Kiryukhin has written a News & Views article on our paper describing ultrafast x-ray pair distribution function measurements.
Aug 1, 2024 Jinu Thomas, a PhD student in Steve Johnston’s group at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has started his SCGSR visit with the group.
Jul 26, 2024 The press release for our work on ultrafast x-ray pair distribution function is now out here.
Jul 25, 2024 The book Ultrafast Electronic and Structural Dynamics is now out! Check out Chapter 10 Ultrafast X-Ray Probes of Dynamics in Solids written by Mariano Trigo, me, and David Reis.
Jun 21, 2024 Mark will give a talk at the Telluride Science Workshop on Enhanced Functionalities from Spin-Orbit Coupling on June 26th.
Jun 14, 2024 Mark will give a talk at the Ultrafast Dynamics and Ultrafast Bandgap Photonics conference in Crete.
Jun 13, 2024 Jack’s paper reporting the first ultrafast x-ray pair distribution function is out in Nature Materials.
May 28, 2024 Our work on nickealtes has been featured by DOE!
May 21, 2024 Mark is giving a talk at the Methods for modeling transport and dynamics of quantum magnets workshop at Los Alamos on May 29th.
May 14, 2024 Former group member Daniel Mazzone has won the Thirtheenth Erwin Félix Lewy Bertaut Prize. Congrats Daniel!
Apr 30, 2024 We are hiring. See here.
Apr 25, 2024 Wei’s paper on excitons in NiPS3 is out in Nature Communications.
Apr 18, 2024 Wei’s paper on excitons in NiPS3 has been accepted in Nature Communications!
Apr 17, 2024 We just posted a paper with Robert Konik on extracting quantum entanglement from RIXS to the arXiv.
Apr 13, 2024 I will be giving a departmental seminar at the University of Texas at Austin on April 25th.
Apr 12, 2024 Jack’s paper reporting the first ultrafast x-ray pair distribution function measurement has been accepted in Nature Materials!
Apr 11, 2024 Mark will present at Brown University’s Inaugural National Labs Day on April 19th.
Mar 27, 2024 Work in collaboration with Mariano Trigo and co on SrTiO3 is posted on the arXiv.
Mar 20, 2024 Mark is giving a Departmental Colloquium at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “Exploring Many Body Excitons with Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering”.
Mar 19, 2024 Jennifer has been promoted to a staff position within the Neutron Scattering Group at Brookhaven in March 2024. Congratualtions Jennifer!
Mar 5, 2024 Jennifer and Wei are giving talks at the American Physical Society March Meeting this week.
Feb 7, 2024 Longlong and Ian’s paper on BCDI methods is published in NPJ Computational Materials.
Feb 1, 2024 Work in collaboration with Xuerong Liu on electron doped cuprates is out in Physical Review Letters.
Jan 11, 2024 Mark is giving the Departmental Colloquium at the University of California, Davis, “X-ray vision of electron behavior in quantum materials”.
Jan 11, 2024 During my visit to the University of California, Davis, I will be giving an informal lunch seminar on “Research opportunities with magnetic excitons”.
Jan 10, 2024 My first talk of the year is a seminar on nickelate superconductors at Stanford University.
Dec 14, 2023 Work lead by Jian Liu’s group in collaboration with us on iridates is now out in Nano Letters.
Dec 12, 2023 Work in collaboration with Xuerong Liu on electron doped cuprates has been accepted in Physical Review Letters.
Nov 27, 2023 Mark will give a talk at the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting.
Nov 17, 2023 We are hiring!
Oct 27, 2023 Jack’s preprint reporting the first ultrafast x-ray pair distribution function measurement is available on the arXiv.
Oct 26, 2023 Work in collaboration with Xuerong Liu on electron doped cuprates is available on the arXiv.
Oct 21, 2023 Our website has been updated! It should now work a lot better on mobile devices.
Oct 17, 2023 Jennifer’s paper on stacking disorder in αRuCl3 is out.
Sep 26, 2023 Jennifer’s preprint on stacking disorder in αRuCl3 has been accepted in Physical Review B!
Sep 14, 2023 Mark will be speaking at the The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Annual User Meeting next week
Aug 4, 2023 Jennifer’s preprint on stacking disorder in αRuCl3 is now available.
Jul 24, 2023 Longlong’s paper on imaging magnetism in iridates is now out in Phys. Rev. B.
May 23, 2023 Mark will give a talk at the VUVX Conference in Campinas, Brasil.
May 23, 2023 Mark will give a talk at the RIXSREXS2023 workshop in Sendai, Japan.
May 21, 2023 Mark will give a talk at the Ultrafast Dynamics and Ultrafast Bandgap Photonics conference in Crete.
May 20, 2023 Mark will present his research and the UKXFEL Science Case for Quantum Materials at the Frontiers of Measurement Technology UK event in Belfast.
Apr 20, 2023 Mark is speaking at the Advanced Photon Source Users’ Meeting on April 21st.
Apr 17, 2023 A News Article was published today on our nickelate research.
Apr 7, 2023 Mark will be giving a talk the MAX IV Workshop on Science Opportunities with Diffraction-Limited Soft X-Rays on April 11th.
Mar 30, 2023 Collaborative work with Matteo d’Astuto on oxychloride cuprates is available on the arXiv.
Mar 29, 2023 Mike Norman’s preprint, in collaboration with us, on the theory of RIXS in nickelates has been accepted by Phys. Rev. B.
Mar 29, 2023 Gilberto’s data descriptor article on the electronic structure of Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates is out in Scientific Data.
Mar 22, 2023 Mark will be giving a colloquium at Oklahoma State University on Thursday March 23.
Mar 17, 2023 Gilberto’s data descriptor article on the electronic structure of Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates is available on the arXiv.
Mar 10, 2023 Jennifer’s work Structure of Charge Density Waves in La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 is now out in Physical Review B and was made an Editors’ Suggestion.
Mar 3, 2023 Mark will be giving an invited talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting.
Feb 20, 2023 Yao’s manuscript on the electronic character of charge order in low valence nickelates is out in Phys. Rev. X.
Feb 19, 2023 Mike Norman’s preprint, in collaboration with us, on the theory of RIXS in nickelates is now available.
Feb 16, 2023 Jennifer’s work Structure of Charge Density Waves in La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 has been accepted by Physical Review B.
Jan 24, 2023 Mark will be giving a talk at McMaster on Febuary 15th.
Jan 11, 2023 Yao’s manuscript on the electronic character of charge order in low valence nickelates is available on the arXiv.
Jan 9, 2023 Yao’s manuscript on Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering in topological semimetal FeSi is available on the arXiv.
Dec 24, 2022 Jennifer’s preprint Structure of Charge Density Waves in La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 is now available.
Nov 18, 2022 Wei Wang’s study of lattice dynamics in magnetite is out in Phys. Rev. B.
Nov 16, 2022 Mark has been awarded distinction of tenure by Brookhaven.
Nov 12, 2022 Yao is giving a talk at the Institut Quantique at the Univeristé de Sherbrooke. Watch it here.
Nov 11, 2022 Yao’s paper Emergence of spinons in layered trimer iridate Ba4Ir3O10 is out in Physical Review Letters.
Oct 17, 2022 Our manuscript on magnetism in low valence nickelates has been tagged as a highly cited paper (top 1% of all papers in the field).
Oct 15, 2022 Yao’s paper Emergence of spinons in layered trimer iridate Ba4Ir3O10 has been accepted in Physical Review Letters.
Sep 30, 2022 Mark is co-organizing a workshop “Time-resolved resonant inelastic hard x-ray scattering as a probe of quantum materials” at the LCLS Users’ Meeting.
Aug 30, 2022 Mark will be speaking at Neutrons and Complementary Techniques for Quantum Materials.
Aug 20, 2022 Mark will be giving a plenary talk at IXS2022 in Oxford.
Jul 31, 2022 Work with Jian Liu’s group on iridate heterostructures is out Phys. Rev. X.
Jul 19, 2022 Work by Laura Chaix and Matteo d’Astuto involving us is now posted published in Phys. Rev. Resarch.
Jul 18, 2022 Mark is lecturing on resonant scattering at the 24th Annual National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering.
Jul 4, 2022 Mark will be giving an invited talk at M2S in Vancouver.
Jun 23, 2022 Congratulations to Gilberto Fabbris who was recently given the Alvin Van Valkenburg Award!
Jun 17, 2022 Yanhong and Valentina’s study of Cu2OSeO3 is published in Communications Physics.
Jun 12, 2022 Jian Liu’s group has posted an iridate heterostructure paper, in collaboration with us, which has been accepted in Physical Review X.
Jun 7, 2022 Mark is speaking at Ultrafast Metastability and Dynamics 2022.
May 27, 2022 Work lead by Min Gyu Kim and Valery Kiryukhin on Real-space observation of fluctuating antiferromagnetic domains is out in Science Advances.
May 3, 2022 Yanhong and Valentina’s study of Cu2OSeO3 was just posted to the arXiv.
Mar 30, 2022 Work by Laura Chaix and Matteo d’Astuto involving us is now posted on the arXiv. See here.
Mar 22, 2022 Our paper on the discovery of a antiferromagnetic excitonic insulator has been chosen for a APS Science Highlight.
Mar 22, 2022 Yao’s mauscript on the essential electronic characteristic of low valence nickelates is out in Physical Review X.
Feb 22, 2022 Daniel’s paper discovering an antiferromagnetic excitonic insulator has been featured as a BNL Press Release.
Feb 19, 2022 Mark’s News and Views article in Nature Physics Waves divide the Fermi sea is out.
Feb 18, 2022 Wei Wang’s study of Fe3O4 was just posted to the arXiv.
Feb 17, 2022 Daniel’s paper discovering an antiferromagnetic excitonic insulator is published in Nature Communications!
Feb 8, 2022 A paper by Simon Wall’s group, in collaboration with us, on Nonthermal breaking of magnetic order via photogenerated spin defects in the spin-orbit coupled insulator Sr3Ir2O7 is published in PRB.
Jan 26, 2022 Our manuscript showing that low-valence nickelates are mixed Mott Charge transfer insulators has been accepted in Physical Review X.
Jan 11, 2022 Daniel’s paper discovering an antiferromagnetic excitonic insulator is accepted in Nature Communications!
Jan 10, 2022 Yao’s paper Emergence of spinons in layered trimer iridate Ba4Ir3O10 is posted on the arXiv.
Dec 30, 2021 Longlong’s paper on domain imaging in nickelates is out Phys. Rev. Lett.
Dec 24, 2021 Our review on low valence nickelates with Matthias Hepting and Wei-Sheng Lee is now published Frontiers in Physics.
Dec 16, 2021 Our study of RIXS on graphite is out in Physical Review X.
Nov 30, 2021 Wei Wang’s paper on SnSe is out in npj Quantum materials.
Nov 30, 2021 Our review on low valence nickelates with Matthias Hepting and Wei-Sheng Lee is accepted in Frontiers in Physics.
Nov 19, 2021 Our study imaging spin density waves in nickelates lead by Ian Robinson and Longlong Wu has been accepted in Physical Review Letters.
Nov 4, 2021 A review on nickelates lead by Matthias Hepting was posted today.
Nov 2, 2021 Work with Xuerong Liu on metastable magnetic states in Sr2IrO4 is out Phys. Rev. X.
Oct 28, 2021 Our work on ultrafast dynamics in SnSe has been accepted in npj Quantum Materials.
Oct 26, 2021 We just posted our work on ultrafast dynamics in SnSe to the arXiv.
Oct 22, 2021 Our study of RIXS on graphite is accepted in Physical Review X.
Oct 20, 2021 Our study of RIXS on graphite is now available.
Oct 19, 2021 Work with Xuerong Liu on metastable magnetic states in Sr2IrO4 was posted today and will appear in Phys. Rev. X. shortly.
Sep 21, 2021 Mark is speaking in two sessions of the 2021 SSRL/LCLS Users Meeting Time Resolved Science: Bridging Time Scales Using XFELs and Synchrotrons and X-ray spectroscopic studies of superconducting and low-dimensional nickelates.
Aug 28, 2021 John Tranquada’s article, together with Qiang Li and me, on Superconductivity from charge order in cuprates is now out.
Aug 13, 2021 A book chapter on Ultrafast x-ray probes of dynamics in solids written by Mariano Trigo, me, and David Reis is available on the arXiv.
Jun 20, 2021 John Tranquada posted a preprint of an article he wrote together with Qiang Li and me on Superconductivity from charge order in cuprates.
Jun 10, 2021 Miao’s group’s paper on RuCl3 is out in Nature Communications.
Jun 7, 2021 A BNL Highlight has been published on our ultrafast study of Sr3Ir2O7.
Jun 4, 2021 Please consider registering for Resonant Inelastic and Elastic X-ray Scattering 2021 organized by Mark and Valentina Bisogni.
May 27, 2021 Our paper on ultrafast magnetic dynamics in Sr3Ir2O7 is published in PNAS.
May 10, 2021 Miao’s group’s paper on chiral phonons in BaPtGe is out.
May 1, 2021 Yao’s paper on spin and charge dynamics in nickelates is out in PRL.
Apr 30, 2021 Miao’s group’s paper on RuCl3 was accepted in Nature Communications.
Apr 27, 2021 Mark has been invited to speak at the APS Workshop Wide-angle XPCS and Application of Speckle Spatio-temporal Correlation in Materials.
Apr 26, 2021 Our paper on ufRIXS on Sr3Ir2O7 is accepted in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Apr 16, 2021 Miao’s group’s paper on chiral phonons in BaPtGe was accepted in Phys. Rev. B.
Apr 12, 2021 Simon Wall’s group just posted a preprint on Sr3Ir2O7 that we collaborated on.
Apr 2, 2021 Yao’s paper on spin and charge dynamics in La2-xSrxNiO4 has been accepted in Physical Review Letters and is available as a preprint.
Mar 19, 2021 Miao’s paper on CDW order in overdoped cuprates is out npj Quantum Materials.
Mar 15, 2021 Mark has been inducted into the Outstanding Referee program of the American Physical Society.
Mar 7, 2021 I am giving a talk at the SACLA Users’ Meeting 2021.
Feb 22, 2021 Our manuscript on magnetism in d9 nickelates is out in Physical Review Letters.
Feb 20, 2021 Miao’s paper on CDW order in overdoped cuprates has been accepted in npj Quantum Materials.
Feb 18, 2021 Mark’s tenure on the PRX editorial board has been extended.
Feb 12, 2021 I am giving the condensed matter seminar on nickelate superconductors at Stony Brook University.
Feb 1, 2021 Mark has been invited to speak at the Korean Physical Society Spring Meeting.
Jan 15, 2021 Our manuscript on magnetism in d9 nickelates has been accepted in Physical Review Letters.
Jan 8, 2021 Mark is giving two talks at the American Physical Society March Meeting. A contributed talk on nickelates and an invited talk on iridates.
Nov 30, 2020 Mark is giving an invited talk at the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting.
Nov 17, 2020 Hu Miao’s group posted their preprint, in collaboration with us, on RuCl3 see here.
Nov 4, 2020 Mark is featured in a news story about our charge density wave research.
Oct 5, 2020 Hu Miao just posted his work, in collaboration with us, on chiral topoloigcal phonons.
Aug 20, 2020 Our new preprint on magnetism in d9 nickelates is out here.
Aug 14, 2020 Jiaqi’s paper on CDW excitations is now out in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Aug 7, 2020 Mark has been invited to serve on the LCLS proposal review panel this fall.
Jul 30, 2020 The UK XFEL Science case, edited by Jon Marangos is now published here. Mark contributed the Magnetic materials and control of ultrafast magnetisation section of this document.
Jul 11, 2020 BNL RIXS software EDRIXS written by Yilin is now accessible to try on mybinder.
Jul 10, 2020 Kemp Plumb of Brown University has been awarded an EPSCoR Grant to visit our lab.
May 9, 2020 Mark has been elected to the Advanced Photon Source Users’ Organization!
Apr 29, 2020 Jian Liu’s group’s paper, in collaboration with us, on iridate heterostructures is out.
Apr 16, 2020 Derek’s paper on iridate heterostructures has been featured in a Advanced Photon Source highlight.
Apr 6, 2020 Jian Liu’s group’s paper, in collaboration with us, on iridate heterostructures was just accepted in PRL! See here.
Mar 26, 2020 Our group notes on writing papers and preparing figures are available.
Mar 24, 2020 Our proposal to build a time-resolved RIXS spectrometer at the SACLA XFEL in Japan has been accepted!
Feb 26, 2020 The UEC Show Episode 3, featuring Matt Whittaker as host and me as co-host is out.
Feb 19, 2020 We just posted our preprint on ultrafast magnetic dynamics in Sr3Ir2O7 available here.
Feb 11, 2020 Tadesse’s paper on cuprate domain imaging is out in Phys. Rev. B.
Jan 29, 2020 We posted two preprints relating to our discovery of CDWs in overdoped cuprates today Miao et al. and Lin et al..
Jan 27, 2020 Today I am giving a seminar at the Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institut.
Jan 26, 2020 The American Physical Society and the International Union of Crystallography have agreed to sponsor RIXS/REXS2020 workshop
Jan 23, 2020 Tadesse’s paper on cuprate domain imaging is accepted in Phys. Rev. B.
Jan 18, 2020 Jiaqi’s paper on plasmons in electron doped cuprates is now out.
Jan 14, 2020 Registration for the RIXS/REXS2020 workshop I am co-organizing with Valentina Bisogni is now open.
Dec 26, 2019 Jian Liu’s group’s paper, in collaboration with us, on Sn doped SrIrO3 growth just came out in Phys. Rev. Materials. See here.
Dec 19, 2019 Recent work on resonant reflectivity lead by Drexel has been featured in a press release.
Dec 17, 2019 A preprint lead by Jian Liu’s group, in collaboration with us, on Sn doped SrIrO3 growth was just posted on the arXiv. See here.
Dec 17, 2019 We are hosting Jen Cano from Stony Brook Univeristy on January 16th for a Departmental Seminar.
Dec 16, 2019 I am giving the Condensed Matter Physics Seminar at the University of Toronto on January 13th.
Dec 16, 2019 Our paper on phononic helical nodal line structures in MoB2 is now out in Physical Review Letters.
Dec 14, 2019 Miao's leaving dinner
Nov 23, 2019 Jian Liu’s group’s paper on magnetoresistance in iridate heterostructures, in collaboration with us, just came out.
Nov 22, 2019 Our paper on plasmons in electron doped cupratets together with Xuerong Liu’s group is accepted in npj Quantum Materials.
Nov 19, 2019 Our paper on phononic helical nodal lines in MoB2 is accepted in Physical Review Letters.
Nov 7, 2019 The UEC show is online.
Nov 3, 2019 I am giving a talk at the Center for Computational Material Spectroscopy and Design Fall workshop.
Oct 31, 2019 Two of our preprints appeared today. We made the first observation of phononic helical nodal line structures in MoB2. Jian Liu’s group desscribe an intriguing new form of magnetoresistance here.
Oct 30, 2019 Xiao’s paper has been featured in a BNL press release.
Oct 30, 2019 I am giving the CM/AMO Seminar at the University of Michigan on Tuesday, November 5th. See here.
Oct 23, 2019 I am giving a colloquium in the Materials Science Department at Argonne National Laboratory October 24th at 11:00. See here.
Sep 25, 2019 Tadesse’s preprint on domain imaging in cuprates is posted on the arXiv. See here.
Sep 14, 2019 The Oxide Film and Interface Group from Drexel published a paper together with us in Advanced Materials on the electronic properties of ferrite heterostructures. See the paper.
Sep 13, 2019 I am giving the condensed matter seminar at Stony Brook University, after having been invited by Jen Cano.
Sep 10, 2019 Sangjae Lee from Charles Ahn and Fred Walker’s group in Yale, together with our group as collaborators, published a nice recent paper in PRL about orbital polarization in cobaltate heterostructures.
Sep 10, 2019 The inaugural edition of the UEC show, featuring me as co-host just posted on YouTube.
Sep 7, 2019 Our paper explaining how incommensurate charge density waves appear in cuprates, lead by Hu Miao, has appeared in Physical Review X! See here.
Sep 3, 2019 Our preprint, with Xuerong Liu’s Group, looking at charge excitations in electron doped cuprates is posted on the arXiv.
Sep 1, 2019 I am attending NGSCES in Pescara, Italy, giving a keynote talk on Thursday.
Aug 25, 2019 My website is launched.