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All research projects of the CRC 1242 at a glance

Area A - Isolated Excitations

Elementary processes
Analysis in spatially confined systems (0D)
Coupling to further degrees of freedom and the environment
Single- and many-particle effects

A01	Geller , Lorke	Time-Resolved Electrical Non-Equilibrium Spectroscopy on Artificial Atoms and Molecules
A02	König, Sothmann	Charge Carrier Dynamics in Nanostructures
A05	Bovensiepen, Schapiro, Wende	Femtosecond Time-Resolved Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy for an Element Specific Analysis of Complex Nanostructures
A06	Campen, Tong	Non-Equilibrium Charge Transfer between Solids and Adsorbates in Vacuum and at Electrified Solid / Liquid Interfaces
A07	Eschenlohr, Ollefs	Charge Transfer, Diffusion, and Lattice-Mediated Dynamics in Oxide Heterostructures
A08	Gruber	Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Tunnel Junctions Excited with Terahertz Light

Area B - Extended and Propagating Excitations

Spatio-temporal correlation, single- vs. many-particle effects
Competition of local and non-local relaxation (scattering vs. transport)
Environment in Area A constituent of the systems
Coupling to degrees of freedom within ensembles, dynamics of energy redistribution Area C

B01	Bovensiepen	Local and Non-Local Relaxation Dynamics of Hot Carriers
B02	Kratzer	Ab-initio Simulation of Electronic Excitation and Relaxation
B03	Schützhold	Quench Dynamics in Interacting Quantum Many-Body Systems
B04	Horn-von Hoegen	Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of the Phonon System
B06	Meyer zu Heringdorf	Relaxation Pathways for Collective Electronic Excitations
B07	König, Kratzer, Schützhold	Unifying Theoretical Description of Relaxation in Electron Systems
B09	Mittendorff	THz Dynamics of Photo-Excited Charge Carriers on the µm Scale
B10	Everschor-Sitte	Dynamics of Topological Electromagnetic Excitations

Area C - Structural and Cooperative Dynamics

Many-Particle and cooperative effects
Driven structural transitions
Based on analysis of electron and phonon dynamics in Area B
Local/extended character of perturbation Area A and Area B

C01	Sokolowski-Tinten, Wang	Structural Dynamics in Impulsively Excited Nanostructures
C02	Gruner, Pentcheva	Coupling between Structural and Electronic Excitations: an ab-initio Investigation
C03	Horn-von Hoegen	Driven Phase Transitions at Surfaces: Initial Dynamics, Hidden States and Relaxation
C05	Breuer, Schleberger, Sokolowski-Tinten	Exploring Particle-Induced Excitations in the Time Domain