Welcome!
I'm Shunsuke A. Sato and studying qunatum dynamics of matter at
Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
Currently, I'm working at theory group of
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD), Hamburg, Germany, as a visiting scientist.
See also What's New below!.
What's New
- January 7, 2023:
Our new article, "Floquet engineering non-equilibrium steady states" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2301.02004 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]
- December 2, 2022:
Our article, "Second harmonic Hall responses of insulators as a probe of Berry curvature dipole" has been published from Communications Physics:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-01086-9
- November 21, 2022:
Our article, "Controlling Floquet states on ultrashort time scales" has been published from Nature Communications:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34973-4
- October 12, 2022:
Our new article, "Ultrafast electron localization and screening in a transition metal dichalcogenide" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2210.05465 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]
- October 12, 2022:
Our article, "Simulating Terahertz Field-Induced Ferroelectricity in Quantum Paraelectric SrTiO3" has been published from Physical Review Letters:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.167401
- September 26, 2022:
Our article, "Charge transfer in ultrafast isomerization of acetylene ions" has been published from Physical Review A:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.106.033111
- September 20, 2022:
Our article, "Floquet engineering the band structure of materials with optimal control theory" has been published from Physical Review Research:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.033213
- August 6, 2022:
Our article, "Time- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of strong-field light-dressed solids: Prevalence of the adiabatic band picture" has been published from Physical Review Research:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.033101
- August 1, 2022:
Our article, "Terahertz-induced high-order harmonic generation and nonlinear charge transport in graphene" has been published from Physical Review B:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.024313
- June 24, 2022:
Our article, "Size-controlled quantum dots reveal the impact of intraband transitions on high-order harmonic generation in solids" has been published from Nature Physics:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01639-3
- May 26, 2022:
Our article, "Few-Femtosecond Dynamics of Free-Free Opacity in Optically Heated Metals" has been published from Physical Review X:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.12.021045
- May 6, 2022:
Our new article, "Controlling Floquet states on ultrashort time scales" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2205.00788 [physics.optics]
- May 6, 2022:
Our new article, "Time- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of strong-field light-dressed solids: prevalence of the adiabatic band picture" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2204.14157 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]
- March 30, 2022:
Our article, "Reconstruction of ultrafast exciton dynamics with a phase-retrieval algorithm" has been published from Optics Express:
https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.451759
- March 16, 2022:
Our new article, "THz-induced high-order harmonic generation and nonlinear charge transport in graphene" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2203.07649 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- March 8, 2022:
Our new article, "Floquet engineering the band structure of materials with optimal control theory" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2203.03387 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- February 9, 2022:
Our article, "First-principles calculations for transient absorption of laser-excited magnetic materials" has been published from Electronic Structure:
https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1075/ac52df
- December 22, 2021:
Our article, "First-principles modelling for time-resolved ARPES under different pump-probe conditions" has been published from Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elspec.2021.147152
- December 13, 2021:
Our new article, "Tracing out the Berry curvature dipole and multipoles in second harmonic Hall responses of time-reversal symmetric insulators" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2112.05524 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- December 2, 2021:
Our article, "Two-step Brillouin zone sampling for efficient computation of electron dynamics in solids" has been published from Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter:
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ac3f00
- November 11, 2021:
Our article, "Conditional Wave Function Theory: A Unified Treatment of Molecular Structure and Nonadiabatic Dynamics" has been published from Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation:
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00772
- Augst 16, 2021:
Our article, "Quantum paraelectric phase of SrTiO3 from first principles" has been published from Physical Review B:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.L060103
- July 28, 2021:
Our article, "The ferroelectric photo ground state of SrTiO3: Cavity materials engineering" has been published from PNAS:
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2105618118
- July 20, 2021:
Our new article, "Reconstruction of ultrafast exciton dynamics with a phase-retrieval algorithm" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2107.08202 [physics.optics]
- July 5, 2021:
Our new article, "Conditional wavefunction theory: a unified treatment of molecular structure and nonadiabatic dynamics" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2107.01094 [physics.chem-ph]
- June 17, 2021:
Our article, "Nonlinear electric conductivity and THz-induced charge transport in graphene" has been published from New Journal of Physics:
https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac03d0
- June 9, 2021:
Our new article, "Simulating terahertz field-induced transient ferroeletricity in quantum paraelectric SrTiO3" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2106.03957 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]
- June 4, 2021:
Our article, "Survival of Floquet–Bloch States in the Presence of Scattering" has been published from Nano Letters:
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00801
- April 6, 2021:
Our article, "Simulating Vibronic Spectra without Born-Oppenheimer Surfaces" has been published from Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters:
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00073
- March 30, 2021:
Our article, "First-principles calculations for attosecond electron dynamics in solids" has been published from Computational Materials Science:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2020.110274
- March 23, 2021:
Our new article, "Nonlinear electric conductivity and light-induced charge transport in graphene" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2103.11969 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- March 13, 2021:
Our article, "Single and double charge transfer in the Ne2++He collision within time-dependent density-functional theory" has been published from Physical Review A:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.103.032816
- February 26, 2021:
Our new article, "On the survival of Floquet-Bloch states in the presence of scattering" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2102.12798 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]
- February 15, 2021:
Our article, "Unravelling the intertwined atomic and bulk nature of localised excitons by attosecond spectroscopy" has been published from Nature Communications:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21345-7
Please, also have a look at our press release! - January 29, 2021:
Our article, "High-order harmonic generation in graphene: Nonlinear coupling of intraband and interband transitions" has been published from Physical Review B:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.L041408
- January 28, 2021:
Our new article, "The Ferroelectric Photo-Groundstate of SrTiO3: Cavity Materials Engineering" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2101.11313 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]
- January 11, 2021:
Our new article, "Simulating Vibronic Spectra without Born-Oppenheimer Surfaces" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2101.03007 [physics.chem-ph]
- January 8, 2021:
Our new article, "The quantum paraelectric phase of SrTiO3 from first principles" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2101.02291 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]
- December 23, 2020:
Our article, "Floquet dynamics in light-driven solids" has been published from Phys. Rev. Research:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043408
- December 1, 2020:
Our article, "Dynamical amplification of electric polarization through nonlinear phononics in 2D SnTe" has been published from npj Computational Materials:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-020-00449-6
- November 25, 2020:
I have received "University of Tsukuba Young Faculty Award"
[Link (Japanese)]. - November 4, 2020:
Our new article, "First-principles calculations for attosecond electron dynamics in solids" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2011.01677 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]
- October 27, 2020:
Our new article, "Nonlinear phononics in 2D SnTe: a ferroelectric material with phonon dynamical amplification of electric polarization" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2010.13646 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]
- October 22, 2020:
Our article, "Floquet states in dissipative open quantum systems" has been published from Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics:
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/abb127
- October 14, 2020:
Our new article, "High-order harmonic generation in graphene: nonlinear coupling of intra and interband transitions" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2010.06275 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]
- September 22, 2020:
Our article, "Direct measurement of electron-phonon coupling with time-resolved ARPES" has been published from Physical Revew Letters:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.136401
- August 31, 2020:
Our article, "Role of electron scattering on the high-order harmonic generation from solids" has been published from Phys. Rev. Research:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033333
- July 31, 2020:
Our article, "Role of virtual band population for high harmonic generation in solids" has been published from Physical Review B:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.041125
- June 30, 2020:
Our new article, "Unravelling the intertwined atomic and bulk nature of localised excitons by attosecond spectroscopy" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2006.16008 [physics.optics]
- June 14, 2020:
Our new article, "Room Temperature Terahertz Electroabsorption Modulation by Excitons in Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2006.04786 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- June 14, 2020:
Our new article, "Floquet dynamics in light-driven solids" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2005.10824 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- April 24, 2020:
Our new article, "Direct measurement of electron-phonon coupling with time-resolved ARPES" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2004.11082 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]
- April 21, 2020:
Our new article, "Role of electron scattering on the high-order harmonic generation from solids" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:2004.09049 [physics.optics]
- April 5, 2020:
Our article, "Octopus, a computational framework for exploring light-driven phenomena and quantum dynamics in extended and finite systems" has been published from J. Chem. Phys.:
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5142502
- January 29, 2020:
Our article, "Attosecond timing of the dynamical Franz-Keldysh effect" has been published from J. Phys. Photonics:
https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7647/ab70cb
- January 15, 2020:
Our article, "Exact exchange-correlation potential of effectively interacting Kohn-Sham systems" has been published from Physical Review A:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.101.012510
- December 22, 2019:
Our new article, "Octopus, a computational framework for exploring light-driven phenomena and quantum dynamics in extended and finite systems" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:1912.07921 [physics.comp-ph]
- December 9, 2019:
Our new article, "Floquet states in dissipative open quantum systems" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:1912.03176 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- November 11, 2019:
I have been selected as a winner of "Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan, 2020" [Link].
I'll give an award lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan, Nagoya University, March 2020. - October 11, 2019:
Our article, "Photovoltaic Effect from the Viewpoint of Time-reversal Symmetry" has been published from Journal of the Physical Society of Japan:
https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.88.115003
- August 16, 2019:
Our new article, "Photovoltaic effect from the viewpoint of time-reversal symmetry" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:1908.05492 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- August 14, 2019:
Our article, "Light-induced anomalous Hall effect in massless Dirac fermion systems and topological insulators with dissipation" has been published from New Journal of Physics:
https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab3acf
- August 5, 2019:
Our article, "Attosecond screening dynamics mediated by electron localization in transition metals" has been published from Nature Physics:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0602-9
Please, also have a look at our press release! - July 19, 2019:
Our article, "Charge Density Wave Melting in One-Dimensional Wires with Femtosecond Subgap Excitation" has been published from Physical Revew Letters:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.036405 - July 2, 2019:
Our new article, "Exact exchange-correlation potential of effectively interacting Kohn-Sham systems" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:1907.00183 [physics.chem-ph] - June 10, 2019:
Our article, "Microscopic theory for the light-induced anomalous Hall effect in graphene" has been published from Physical Revew B:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.214302 - May 31, 2019:
Our new article, "Light-induced anomalous Hall effect in massless Dirac fermion systems and topological insulators with dissipation" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:1905.12981 [cond-mat.mes-hall] - May 16, 2019:
I started working at Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan! - May 14, 2019:
Our new article, "Microscopic theory for the light-induced anomalous Hall effect in graphene" has been uploaded on arXiv:
arXiv:1905.04508 [cond-mat.mes-hall] - May 5, 2019:
New website opened!