  Lightwave quantum electronics utilizes the oscillating carrier wave of
intense laser fields to control quantum materials properties. Using quantum
kinetic equations of motion, we describe lightwave-driven nonlinear quantum
transport of electronic spin and charge with simultaneous quantum fluctuations
of non-collinear local spins. During cycles of field oscillations, spin-charge
inter-atomic quantum excitations trigger non-adiabatic time evolution of an
antiferromagnetic insulator state into a metallic non-equilibrium state with
transient magnetization. Lightwave modulation of electronic hopping changes the
energy landscape and establishes a non-thermal pathway to laser-induced
transitions in correlated systems with strong local magnetic exchange
interactions.
