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Full characterization and optimization of a femtosecond ultraviolet laser source for time and angle-resolved photoemission on solid surfaces.

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The UV source has been fully characterized spatially, spectrally, and temporally and its potential for time and angle-resolved photoemission is demonstrated through Fermi surface mapping and photoexcited electron dynamics in Bismuth.
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A novel experimental apparatus for time and angle-resolved photoemission on solid surfaces is presented. A 6.28 eV laser source operating at 250 kHz repetition rate is obtained by frequency mixing in nonlinear beta barium borate crystals. This UV light source has a high photon flux of 1013 photons/s with relatively low number of photons/pulse so that Fermi surface mapping over a wide region of the Brillouin zone is possible while mitigating space charge effects. The UV source has been fully characterized spatially, spectrally, and temporally. Its potential for time and angle-resolved photoemission is demonstrated through Fermi surface mapping and photoexcited electron dynamics in Bismuth. True femtosecond time resolution <65 fs is obtained while the energy resolution of 70 meV appears to be mainly limited by the laser bandwidth.

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Ultrafast surface carrier dynamics in the topological insulator Bi2Te3

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Ultrafast Surface Carrier Dynamics in the Topological Insulator Bi2Te3

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Time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of solids in the extreme ultraviolet at 500 kHz repetition rate

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Ultrafast dynamics during the photoinduced phase transition in VO2

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Angle-resolved photoemission studies of the cuprate superconductors

TL;DR: A review of the most recent ARPES results on the cuprate superconductors and their insulating parent and sister compounds is presented in this article, with the purpose of providing an updated summary of the extensive literature.
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Theory for displacive excitation of coherent phonons.

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Strong spin-orbit splitting on bi surfaces.

TL;DR: In this paper, the spin-orbit interaction leads to a strong splitting of the surface-state bands on low-index surfaces of Bi. The dispersion of the states and the corresponding Fermi surfaces are profoundly modified in the whole surface Brillouin zone.
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The surfaces of bismuth: Structural and electronic properties

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of the spin-orbit interaction on low-index surfaces of the group V semimetal bismuth has been studied and the main focus is on the geometric and electronic structure.
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