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Chenhang Xu^1,2,*, Jackson McClellan ^3,4,*, Patrick Liu ¹, Sheng-Chih Lin ^3,4, Shuaiwei Pan ^5,4, Henry G. Bell ¹, Patrick L. Kramer ⁶, Randy Lemons ⁶, Sharon S. Philip ⁶ et al.

Cameron J. R. Duncan ⁶, Brian Kaufman ⁶, Mianzhen Mo ⁶, Alexander H. Reid ⁶, Giulio Cerullo ^7,8, Alfred Zong ^9,1,2,†, and Michael W. Zuerch ^3,4,‡

¹Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
²Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
³Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
⁴Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
⁵Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
⁶SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
⁷Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milan 20133, Italy
⁸CNR-IFN, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milan 20133, Italy
⁹Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA

^*These authors contributed equally to this work.
^†Contact author: alfredz@stanford.edu
^‡Contact author: mwz@berkeley.edu

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 029601 – Published 8 July, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/p5d8-548h

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Photoinduced Dynamics and Momentum Distribution of Chiral Charge Density Waves in $1 T − {TiSe}_{2}$

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 029601– Published 8 July, 2026

Vol. 137, Iss. 2 — 10 July 2026

Received 4 October 2025
Accepted 15 May 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/p5d8-548h

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