Workshop on Materials in Quantum Cavities and Excitonic Insulators

Workshop

When

  • All Day

  • All Day

  • All Day

  • All Day

  • All Day

Where

162 Fifth Avenue, 9th Floor Classroom

160 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10010

This workshop will bring together a select group of experimentalists and theorists to address open questions and new challenges raised by the prospect of embedding materials and molecules in high finesse optical cavities:  how can strong light-matter coupling change energy landscapes and chemical reactivities, drive the creation of new topological states of matter or control and reveal new non-equilibrium physics and what new non-equilibrium tools can/should we develop or improve to address these new scientific challenges?

Invited Participants
Eduardo Baldini MIT
Alexander Boris MPI Stuttgart
Andrea Cavalleri MPSD Hamburg
Hui Deng University of Michigan
Thomas Ebbesen University of Strasbourg
Jerome Faist ETH Zurich
Johannes Flick Harvard University
Jennifer Fowlie University of Geneva
Victor Galitski University of Maryland
Antoine Georges CCQ
Alexandru Georgescu CCQ
Atac Imamoglu ETH Zurich
Dieter Jaksch University of Oxford
Tatsuya Kaneko Columbia University
Changjong Kang Rutgers University
Johnathan Keeling University of St. Andrews
Simone Latini MPSD Hamburg
Ben Lev Stanford University
Peter Littlewood University of Chicago
Giacomo Mazza Ecole Polytechnique/College de France
Vinod Menon City College of New York
Andy Millis CCQ
Sam Moore Columbia University
Selene Mor Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Yukinori Ohta Chiba University
Olivier Parcollet CCQ
Malte Roesner Radboud University Nijmegen
Angel Rubio CCQ/MPSD
Hiroshi Sawa Nagoya University
Yinming Shao Columbia University
Jean-Marc Triscone University of Geneva
Shuai Zhang Columbia University
Agenda

Monday, July 8

9:00 – 9:15 AM Antoine Georges, Andy Millis and Angel Rubio Welcome
9:15 – 10:00 AM Peter Littlewood An exceptional point as a dynamic critical point between driven
polariton condensates


Slides
10:00 – 10:15 AM Break Organic polariton condensates: Modeling complex open quantum systems and structured environments
Slides
10:15 – 11:00 AM Jonathan Keeling Organic polariton condensates: Modeling complex open quantum
systems and structured environments


Slides
11:00 – 11:15 AM Break
11:15 – 12:00 PM Jun Kono Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling in High-Q THz Cavities

Slides
12:00 – 6:00 PM Lunch, Discussion and Research

Tuesday, July 9

9:00 – 9:45 AM Vinod Menon Recent work on strong coupling in 2D materials in cavities

Slides
9:45 – 10:30 AM Jennifer Fowlie An approach to phonon-engineering motivated by transition metal
oxides

Slides
10:30 – 10:45 AM Break
10:45- 11:30 AM Victor Galitski Cavity Quantum Enhancement of Superconductivity and
Superconducting Polaritons

Slides
11:30 – 12:15 PM Dieter Jaksch Cavity-mediated electron-photon superconductivity
Slides
12:15 – 6:00 PM Lunch, Discussion and Research

Wednesday, July 10

9:00 – 9:45 AM Jérôme Faist Probing the ground state of Landau polaritons with transport and
ultrafast field measurements

Slides
9:45 – 10:30 AM Hui Deng Controlling Coherent Light-Matter Interactions in Semiconductors
Slides
10:30 – 10:45 AM Break
10:45 – 11:30 AM Atac Imamoglu Dipolar excitons in van der Waals heterostructures
Slides
11:30 – 12:15 PM Ben Lev Quantum simulation using multimode cavity QED
Slides
12:15 – 6:00 PM Lunch, Discussion and Research
6:30 PM Conference Reception and Dinner Flatiron Institute Rooftop and Dining Room

Thursday, July 11

9:00 – 9:45 AM Thomas Ebbesen New Properties of Matter in the Strong Coupling Regime
9:45 – 10:30 AM Andrea Cavalleri Coherent Josephson Supercurrents in and outside Optical Cavities
10:30 – 10:45 AM Break
10:45 – 11:30 AM Johannes Flick First-principles approaches to strong light-matter coupling
11:30 – 12:15 PM Giacomo Mazza Coherent states of light and polarised phases of matter in cavity
QED quantum materials

Slides
12:15 – 6:00 PM Lunch, Discussion and Research

Friday, July 12

9:00 – 9:30 AM Edoardo Baldini Light-induced manipulation of the phase of the order parameter in
Ta2NiSe5

Slides
9:30 – 10:00 AM Tatsuya Kaneko Excitonic orders in d^0 electron systems: TiSe2 and Ta2NiSe5
10:00 – 10:15 AM Break
10:15 – 10:45 AM Alexander Boris Giant exciton Fano resonances in Ta2NiSe5
Slides
10:45 – 11:15 AM Stefan Kaiser Dynamical Order Parameter in the Excitonic Insulator Ta2NiSe5
11:15 – 11:45 AM Selene Mor Ultrafast electronic band gap control and structural dynamics in
TNS

Slides
11:45 – 2:15 PM Lunch
2:15 – 2:45 PM Malte Roesner Material-realistic modeling of Ta2NiSe5
Slides
2:45 – 3:15 PM Changjong Kang Strong interband interaction in the excitonic insulator phase of
Ta2NiSe5 or Material design on correlated electronic systems


Slides
3:15 – 3:30 PM Break
3:30 – 4:00 PM Hiroshi Sawa Study of the structural and electronic property of excitonic
insulators Ta2NiSe5

Slides
4:00 – 4:30 PM Yukinori Ohta Theoretical perspectives on an excitonic insulator Ta2NiSe5
Slides
Closing Remarks

July 8, 2019

Alexander Boris: Giant exciton Fano resonances in Ta2NiSe5

July 8, 2019

Jonathan Keeling: Organic polariton condensates: Modeling complex open quantum systems and structured environments

July 8, 2019

Jun Kono: Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling in High-Q THz Cavities

July 8, 2019

Peter Littlewood: An exceptional point as a dynamic critical point between driven polariton condensates

July 10, 2019

Ben Lev: Quantum simulation using multimode cavity: Engineering photon-mediated interactions among atoms and spins

July 10, 2019

Hui Deng: Controlling Coherent Light-Matter Interactions in Semiconductors

July 11, 2019

Johannes Flick: First-principles approaches to strong light-matter coupling

July 11, 2019

Giacomo Mazza: Coherent states of light and polarised phases of matter in cavity QED quantum materials

July 12, 2019

Hiroshi Sawa: Study of the structural and electronic property of excitonic insulators Ta2NiSe5 and TiSe2

July 12, 2019

Changjong Kang: Strong interband interaction in the excitonic insulator phase of Ta2NiSe5 or Material design on correlated electronic systems

July 12, 2019

Alexander Boris: Giant exciton Fano resonances in Ta2NiSe5

July 12, 2019

Malte Roesner: Material-realistic modeling of Ta2NiSe5

July 12, 2019

Yukinori Ohta: Theoretical perspectives on an excitonic insulator Ta2NiSe5

July 12, 2019

Selene Mor: Ultrafast electronic band gap control and structural dynamics in TNS

July 12, 2019

Stefan Kaiser: Dynamical Order Parameter in the Excitonic Insulator Ta2NiSe5

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