Workshop on Materials in Quantum Cavities and Excitonic Insulators

  • Organized by
  • Portrait photo of Antoine GeorgesAntoine Georges, Ph.D.Director, Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute
  • Portrait photo of Andrew MillisAndrew Millis, Ph.D.CCQ Co-Director, Flatiron Institute
  • Portrait photo of Malte RoesnerMalte Roesner, Ph.D.Radboud University
  • Portrait photo of Angel RubioAngel Rubio, Ph.D.Distinguished Research Scientist, CCQ, Flatiron Institute
    Co-Director, Initiative for Computational Catalysis, Flatiron Institute
Date & Time


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?

  • Eduardo BaldiniMIT
    Alexander Boris MPI Stuttgart
    Andrea CavalleriMPSD Hamburg
    Hui Deng University of Michigan
    Thomas EbbesenUniversity of Strasbourg
    Jerome Faist ETH Zurich
    Johannes Flick Harvard University
    Jennifer FowlieUniversity of Geneva
    Victor GalitskiUniversity of Maryland
    Antoine GeorgesCCQ
    Alexandru GeorgescuCCQ
    Atac ImamogluETH Zurich
    Dieter JakschUniversity of Oxford
    Tatsuya KanekoColumbia University
    Changjong KangRutgers University
    Johnathan KeelingUniversity of St. Andrews
    Simone LatiniMPSD Hamburg
    Ben LevStanford University
    Peter LittlewoodUniversity of Chicago
    Giacomo MazzaEcole Polytechnique/College de France
    Vinod MenonCity College of New York
    Andy MillisCCQ
    Sam MooreColumbia University
    Selene MorUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
    Yukinori OhtaChiba University
    Olivier ParcolletCCQ
    Malte RoesnerRadboud University Nijmegen
    Angel RubioCCQ/MPSD
    Hiroshi SawaNagoya University
    Yinming ShaoColumbia University
    Jean-Marc TrisconeUniversity of Geneva
    Shuai ZhangColumbia University
  • Monday, July 8

    9:00 - 9:15 AMAntoine Georges, Andy Millis and Angel RubioWelcome
    9:15 - 10:00 AMPeter LittlewoodAn exceptional point as a dynamic critical point between driven polariton condensates
    Slides
    10:00 - 10:15 AMBreakOrganic polariton condensates: Modeling complex open quantum systems and structured environments
    Slides
    10:15 - 11:00 AMJonathan KeelingOrganic polariton condensates: Modeling complex open quantum systems and structured environments
    Slides
    11:00 - 11:15 AMBreak
    11:15 - 12:00 PMJun KonoUltrastrong Light-Matter Coupling in High-Q THz Cavities
    Slides
    12:00 - 6:00 PMLunch, Discussion and Research

    Tuesday, July 9

    9:00 - 9:45 AMVinod MenonRecent work on strong coupling in 2D materials in cavities
    Slides
    9:45 - 10:30 AMJennifer FowlieAn approach to phonon-engineering motivated by transition metal oxides
    Slides
    10:30 - 10:45 AMBreak
    10:45- 11:30 AMVictor GalitskiCavity Quantum Enhancement of Superconductivity and Superconducting Polaritons
    Slides
    11:30 - 12:15 PMDieter JakschCavity-mediated electron-photon superconductivity
    Slides
    12:15 - 6:00 PMLunch, Discussion and Research

    Wednesday, July 10

    9:00 - 9:45 AMJérôme FaistProbing the ground state of Landau polaritons with transport and ultrafast field measurements
    Slides
    9:45 - 10:30 AMHui DengControlling Coherent Light-Matter Interactions in Semiconductors
    Slides
    10:30 - 10:45 AMBreak
    10:45 - 11:30 AMAtac ImamogluDipolar excitons in van der Waals heterostructures
    Slides
    11:30 - 12:15 PMBen LevQuantum simulation using multimode cavity QED
    Slides
    12:15 - 6:00 PMLunch, Discussion and Research
    6:30 PMConference Reception and DinnerFlatiron Institute Rooftop and Dining Room

    Thursday, July 11

    9:00 - 9:45 AMThomas EbbesenNew Properties of Matter in the Strong Coupling Regime
    9:45 - 10:30 AMAndrea CavalleriCoherent Josephson Supercurrents in and outside Optical Cavities
    10:30 - 10:45 AMBreak
    10:45 - 11:30 AMJohannes FlickFirst-principles approaches to strong light-matter coupling
    11:30 - 12:15 PMGiacomo MazzaCoherent states of light and polarised phases of matter in cavity QED quantum materials
    Slides
    12:15 - 6:00 PMLunch, Discussion and Research

    Friday, July 12

    9:00 - 9:30 AMEdoardo BaldiniLight-induced manipulation of the phase of the order parameter in Ta2NiSe5
    Slides
    9:30 - 10:00 AMTatsuya KanekoExcitonic orders in d^0 electron systems: TiSe2 and Ta2NiSe5
    Slides
    10:00 - 10:15 AMBreak
    10:15 - 10:45 AMAlexander BorisGiant exciton Fano resonances in Ta2NiSe5
    Slides
    10:45 - 11:15 AMStefan KaiserDynamical Order Parameter in the Excitonic Insulator Ta2NiSe5
    11:15 - 11:45 AMSelene MorUltrafast electronic band gap control and structural dynamics in TNS
    Slides
    11:45 - 2:15 PMLunch
    2:15 - 2:45 PMMalte RoesnerMaterial-realistic modeling of Ta2NiSe5
    Slides
    2:45 - 3:15 PMChangjong KangStrong interband interaction in the excitonic insulator phase of Ta2NiSe5 or Material design on correlated electronic systems
    Slides
    3:15 - 3:30 PMBreak
    3:30 - 4:00 PMHiroshi SawaStudy of the structural and electronic property of excitonic insulators Ta2NiSe5
    Slides
    4:00 - 4:30 PMYukinori OhtaTheoretical perspectives on an excitonic insulator Ta2NiSe5
    Slides
    Closing Remarks

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