TY - BOOK AU - Mandal, Santanu PY - 2025 DA - 2025// TI - Single-cycle probing of the dynamics of the insulator-to-metal phase transition in VO₂ PB - Universität Rostock CY - Germany; Rostock AB - This thesis uses single-cycle and few-cycle femtosecond pulses to explore two major frontiers in condensed-matter and strong-field physics. First, single-cycle excitation clarifies the insulator-to-metal transition mechanism in M1-VO₂ by separating electronic and structural dynamics and revealing the anharmonic V–V bond oscillation central to the phase change. Second, it details the development of a solid-state high harmonic spectroscopy apparatus that enables precise study of the transition from perturbative to nonperturbative or extreme nonlinear optics in bulk crystals for the first time. UR - https://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/id00005659 UR - https://doi.org/10.18453/rosdok_id00005659 DO - 10.18453/rosdok_id00005659 LA - English N1 - vorgelegt von Santanu Mandal ID - 1976016207 ER -