# News Sort & Filters close ## Filters Publish Date expand\_more 2019 (1) 2020 (5) 2021 (5) 2022 (4) 2023 (7) 2024 (3) 2025 (4) 2026 (2) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 31 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 31 results [### Sophia defended her thesis! ](/news/2026/03/sophia-defended-her-thesis) March 25, 2026 Sophia successfully defended here PhD thesis on "X-ray probes of dynamical correlations in nickelates and cuprates"! She is the first PhD student to graduate from the Mitrano group, and in establishing tradition, received a graduation hat representative... ![Sophia_grad_hat](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/image%20%285%29.png?itok=hrwkAre_) [### Matteo awarded with a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics ](/news/2026/02/matteo-awarded-2026-sloan-research-fellowship-physics) February 17, 2026 Matteo receives a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics. Associated with $75,000 in funding for research activities, the Sloan Fellowship is given to early career researchers at US and Canadian institutions who are viewed as future scientific leaders... ![Sloan logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/SRF%20Square%201.png?h=afb74200&itok=kfPtCKpy) [### Magnetic Excitations in Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates revealed by RIXS ](/news/2025/06/magnetic-excitations-ruddlesden-popper-nickelates-revealed-rixs) June 04, 2025 Our new article, Magnetic excitations in Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates observed via resonant inelastic x-ray scattering , is now out in Physical Review B. Here, we investigate the layer-dependent evolution of electronic and magnetic interactions in... ![nickelates_RIXS_mag](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-06/Ruddleston_popper.png?itok=ECE8nfih) [### Symmetry-protected electronic metastability ](/news/2025/06/symmetry-protected-electronic-metastability) June 04, 2025 Our new article, Symmetry-protected electronic metastability in an optically driven cuprate ladder , is now out in Nature Materials. In this work, we demonstrate light-induced electronic metastability protected by symmetry, offering a rational design... ![Metastability_Hari](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-06/Metastability_PSI.png?itok=dI07kj1z) [### Beyond-Hubbard Pairing in a Cuprate Ladder ](/news/2025/06/beyond-hubbard-pairing-cuprate-ladder) June 04, 2025 Our new article, Beyond-Hubbard Pairing in a Cuprate Ladder , is now out in Physical Review X. In this paper, we use resonant inelastic x-ray scattering to measure magnetic excitations in a prototypical cuprate ladder, and find evidence for strong hole... ![Beyond_Hubbard](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/PtW_Harvard_Mitrano_PRX_25_Q1_Final_post_8-bit.png?itok=guwdnusx) [### Mitrano Lab Joins RWTH Aachen University's OPTIMAL Consortium ](/news/2025/01/mitrano-lab-joins-rwth-aachen-universitys-optimal-consortium) January 15, 2025 The Mitrano lab joins the OPTIMAL (Optical Control of Quantum Materials) consortium, with Professor Mattteo Mitrano as a Mercator fellow. OPTIMAL is a joint, intercampus collaboration between experimental and theoretical researchers targeting major... ![OPTIMAL logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-01/show_picture.png?itok=5IMUziJG) [### New RIXS spectroscopy review article out now in Physical Review X ](/news/2024/12/new-rixs-spectroscopy-review-article-out-now-physical-review-x) December 13, 2024 Our new article, Exploring Quantum Materials with Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering, is now out in Physical Review X. In this review, we discuss the recent theoretical and experimental advances in unveiling the fundamental excitations of quantum... ![RIXS Review](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-12/RIXS_review.png?itok=ce2JXcNy) [### Sophia featured in European XFEL Interview! ](/news/2024/12/sophia-featured-european-xfel-interview) December 09, 2024 Sophia TenHuisen, graduate student in our lab, gave a brief interview to European XFEL about the recent beamtime she participated alongside Mark Dean's team at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In their experiment, they investigated the transient... ![thumbnail sophia EuXFEL](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-12/sophia_thumbnail.png?h=f7d53f2f&itok=1TBwJQUD) [### Denitsa Baykusheva joined ISTA as an Assistant Professor of Physics! ](/news/denitsa-baykusheva-joined-ista-assistant-professor-physics) January 01, 2024 Our former postdoc Denitsa R. Baykusheva joines the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) as an Assistant Professor of Physics. Congratulations, Denitsa! Well deserved! description [### Matteo awarded IUPAP C10 Early Career Scientist Prize ](/news/matteo-awarded-iupap-c10-early-career-scientist-prize) October 31, 2023 Matteo has been awarded the IUPAP C10 Early Career Scientist Prize in the Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter. This award is given annually to early-career scientists for in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the areas of physics... description [### Discovering a demon ](/news/discovering-demon) August 09, 2023 This manuscript presents the discovery of a quasiparticle called “demon” (from “ distinct electron motion ” or d.e.m.) that was predicted 66 years ago by David Pines and not observed definitively until now. The characteristic excitation of a metal is a... ![Pines' demon plasmon in Sr2RuO4](/sites/g/files/omnuum1256/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/mitranolab/files/sro_demon.jpg?itok=DGqmvl5V) [### Ziqiang receives Generation Q G2 Fellowship! ](/news/ziqiang-receives-generation-q-g2-fellowship) July 14, 2023 Congratulations to Ziqiang for having been awarded a semester-long graduate fellowship from the AWS Generation Q Fund at the Harvard Quantum Initiative! description - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")