Unraveling Ultrafast Photoionization in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Lianjie Xue1,2,3*, Song Liu2*, Yang Hang4*, Adam M. Summers1,3, Derrek J. Wilson1,3,5, Xinya Wang6, Pingping Chen6, Thomas G. Folland7, Jordan A. Hachtel8, Hongyu Shi1,3, Sajed Hosseini-Zavareh1,3, Suprem R. Das6,9, Shuting Lei6, Zhuhua Zhang4, Christopher M. Sorensen1, Wanlin Guo4, Joshua D. Caldwell7, James H. Edgar2, Cosmin I. Blaga1,3, Carlos A. Trallero-Herrero10 1Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA 2Tim Taylor Department of Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA 3J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA 4State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures and Institute of Nano Science, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, P. R. China 5Advanced Laser Light Source and few-cycle Inc., Institut Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, 1650 Boul. Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, QC, J3X 1P7, Canada 6Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA 7Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 37212, USA 8Center for Nanophase Materials Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, 37830 USA 9Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA 10Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA *Equal author contribution Emails: sor@phys.ksu.edu; chuwazhang@nuaa.edu.cn; wlguo@nuaa.edu.cn; edgarjh@ksu.edu; blaga@phys.ksu.edu; carlos.trallero@uconn.edu.