Detailed elemental abundance patterns of metal-poor ([Fe/H]∼−1 dex) stars in the Galactic bulge indicate that a number of them are consistent with globular cluster (GC) stars and may be former members of dissolved GCs. This would indicate that a few per cent of the Galactic bulge was built up from destruction and/or evaporation of globular clusters. Here an attempt is made to identify such presumptive stripped stars originating from the massive, inner Galaxy globular cluster NGC 6441 using its rich RR Lyrae variable star (RRL) population. We present radial velocities of forty RRLs centered on the globular cluster NGC 6441. All of the 13 RRLs observed within the cluster tidal radius have velocities consistent with cluster membership, with an average radial velocity of 24 ± 5 km s −1 and a star-to-star scatter of 11 km s −1 . This includes two new RRLs that were previously not associated with the cluster. Eight RRLs with radial velocities consistent with cluster membership but up to three time the distance from the tidal radius are also reported. These potential extratidal RRLs also have exceptionally long periods, which is a curious characteristic of the NGC 6441 RRL population that hosts RRLs with periods longer than seen anywhere else in the Milky Way. As expected of stripped cluster stars, most are inline with the cluster's orbit. Therefore, either the tidal radius of NGC 6441 is underestimated and/or we are seeing dissolving cluster stars stemming from NGC 6441 that are building up the old spheroidal bulge.

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Ultrafast spectroscopies have become an important tool for elucidating the microscopic description and dynamical properties of quantum materials. In particular, by tracking the dynamics of non-thermal electrons, a material's dominant scattering processes -and thus the many-body interactions between electrons and collective excitations -can be revealed. Here we present a new method for extracting the electron-phonon coupling strength in the time domain, by means of time and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (TR-ARPES). This method is demonstrated in graphite, where we investigate the 1 arXiv:1902.05572v3 [cond-mat.str-el] 1 Aug 2019 dynamics of photo-injected electrons at the K point, detecting quantized energyloss processes that correspond to the emission of strongly-coupled optical phonons.We show that the observed characteristic timescale for spectral-weight-transfer mediated by phonon-scattering processes allows for the direct quantitative extraction of electron-phonon matrix elements, for specific modes, and with unprecedented sensitivity.The concept of the electronic quasiparticle as proposed by Landau, i.e. the dressing of an electron with many-body and collective excitations (1), is essential to the modern understanding of condensed matter physics. Among the plethora of interactions relevant to solid-state systems, electron-phonon coupling (EPC) has been a persistent subject of great interest, related as it is to the emergence of disparate physical phenomena, from resistivity in normal metals to conventional (BCS) superconductivity and charge-ordered phases (2,3). While strong EPC is desirable in systems like BCS superconductors (4, 5), it is deleterious for conductivity in normal metals, curtailing the application of several compounds as room-temperature electronic devices (6).Given the important role of the electron-phonon interaction in relation to both conventional and quantum materials, extensive theoretical and experimental efforts have been devoted towards determining the strength and anisotropy of EPC. While ab-initio calculations are powerful, they rely on complex approximations which require precise experimental data to benchmark their validity (7). Inelastic scattering experiments -such as Raman spectroscopy (8), electron energy loss spectroscopy (9), inelastic x-ray (10), and neutron scattering (11) -are able to access EPC for specific phonon modes, yet integrated over all electronic states. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), on the converse, can access the strength of EPC via phononmediated renormalization effects for specific momentum-resolved electronic states, as revealed by "kinks" in the electronic band dispersion (12-16). However, extraction of EPC strength from these kinks requires accurate modelling of the bare band dispersion and of the electronic

The possibility of driving phase transitions in low-density condensates through the loss of phase coherence alone has far-reaching implications for the study of quantum phases of matter. This has inspired the development of tools to control and explore the collective properties of condensate phases via phase fluctuations. Electrically gated oxide interfaces, ultracold Fermi atoms and cuprate superconductors, which are characterized by an intrinsically small phase stiffness, are paradigmatic examples where these tools are having a dramatic impact. Here we use light pulses shorter than the internal thermalization time to drive and probe the phase fragility of the BiSrCaCuO cuprate superconductor, completely melting the superconducting condensate without affecting the pairing strength. The resulting ultrafast dynamics of phase fluctuations and charge excitations are captured and disentangled by time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. This work demonstrates the dominant role of phase coherence in the superconductor-to-normal state phase transition and offers a benchmark for non-equilibrium spectroscopic investigations of the cuprate phase diagram.