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Ultrashort laser pulses probe electrons' quantum geometry
Researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the University of Regensburg have developed a novel method to determine the Berry curvature of electrons using light. By employing ultrashort laser pulses on an atomic monolayer of tungsten diselenide, the team successfully accessed a quantum property that was previously difficult to measure, with findings published in Nature Photonics.