Symmetry-protected metastability published in Nat. Mater.

Our collaborative paper (with Prof. Mitrano) about orbital-symmetry protected metastable state, has been published in Nature Materials! Congrats to Zecheng and Logan, who led the theory and simulations. This work revealed that orbital symmetry has intrinsic protection for electronic metastability, which can be triggered off instantaneously by laser pulses, leading to long-lifetime nonequilibrium states.