Design and Light-Control of Quantum Materials

Workshop

When

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Where

162 Fifth Avenue, 9th Floor Classroom

160 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10010

The materials by design workshop brought together a select group of scientists to discuss new results, open issues and future directions for designed materials with novel equilibrium and non-equilibrium electronic properties. Systems discussed in the conference included oxide heterostructures, van der Waals compounds, and surface/interface states and systems with strong light-matter coupling. The conference format, which featured talks in the mornings with afternoons reserved for discussion and interaction, was very successful in promoting new ideas and collaborations.

CCQ is deeply appreciative of the hospitality of NYU’s physics department, who accommodated the conference after it was displaced from the Flatiron building by the steam-pipe explosion.

Participants
Charles Ahn Yale University
Richard Averitt UC San Diego
Dmitri Basov Columbia University
Ivan Bozovic Brookhaven/Yale
Andrea Cavalleri MPSD Hamburg
Jak Chakhalian Rutgers University
Hanghui Chen NYU Shanghai
Xi Chen CCQ
Giacomo Coslovich SLAC Stanford University
Cory Dean Columbia University
Ilya Drozdov Brookhaven National Lab
Martin Eckstein FAU
Alex Edelman University of Chicago
Stefano Gariglio University of Geneva
Antoine Georges CCQ
Alexandru Georgescu CCQ
Jim Hone Columbia University
Sohrab Ismail-Beigi Yale University
Andy Kent New York University
Gabriel Kotliar Rutgers University
Jeremy Levy University of Pittsburgh
Mengkun Liu Stony Brook University
James McIver MPSD Hamburg
Andy Millis CCQ
Aditi Mitra New York University
Seongshik Oh Rutgers University
Olivier Parcollet CCQ
Abhay Pasupathy Columbia University
Angel Rubio CCQ
Shunsuke Sato MPSD Hamburg
Darrell Schlom Cornell University
Javad Shabani New York University
Kyle Shen Cornell University
Susanne Stemmer UC Santa Barbara
Hugo Strand CCQ
Mariano Trigo Stanford University
Jean-Marc Triscone University of Geneva
Fred Walker Yale University
Simon Wall ICFO Barcelona
Shiwei Zhang CCQ
Manuel Zingl CCQ
Agenda

Wednesday, July 18

9:00 – 9:15 AM

Andrea Cavalleri, Antoine Georges, Andy Millis and
Jean-Marc Triscone

Welcome

9:15 – 10:15 AM Richard Averitt (UC San Diego) Metastable dynamics in superconductors and insulator-tometal
transition materials
10:15 – 10:30 AM Break
10:30 – 11:30 AM Charles Ahn (Yale University) Picoscale Motifs at Complex Oxide Interfaces
11:30 – 11:45 AM Break
11:45 – 12:45 PM Andrea Cavalleri (MPSD Hamburg) Toward steady-state photo-induced high temperature
superconductivity
12:45 – 6:00 PM Lunch, Discussion and Research

Thursday, July 19

9:00 – 10:00 AM

Mengkun Liu (Stony Brook University)

Probing dielectric function of quantum materials at the
nanoscale

10:00 – 10:15 AM Break
10:15 – 11:15 AM Cory Dean (Columbia University) Tunable electron phases in double layer graphene
11:15 – 11:30 AM Break
11:30 – 12:30 PM Ilya Drozdov (Brookhaven National Lab) Revisiting the phase diagram of BSCCO-2212 with Oxide
MBE and ARPES
12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 – 3:00 PM James McIver (MPSD Hamburg) Femtosecond science on-chip: Light-induced anomalous
Hall effect in graphene
3:00 – 6:00 PM Discussion and Research
6:30 PM Conference Dinner Black Barn, 19 E. 26th Street between 5th Ave. and Madison
Ave.

Friday, July 20

9:00 – 10:00 AM

Dmitri Basov (Columbia University)

Quantum Materials: insights from near field nano-optics

10:00 – 10:15 AM Break
10:15 – 11:15 AM Martin Eckstein (FAU) Competing phases in correlated electron systems out of
equilibrium: a DMFT perspective
11:15 – 11:30 AM Break
11:30 – 12:30 PM Sohrab Ismail-Begi (Yale University) Slave boson methods for transition metal oxides
12:30 – 6:00 PM Lunch, Discussion and Research

Monday, July 23

9:00 – 10:00 AM

Stefano Gariglio (University of Geneva)

Steering orthorhombic distortions in vanadate
heterostructures towards functional properties

10:00- 10:15 AM Break
10:15 – 11:15 AM Mariano Trigo (Stanford University) Disorder and lattice entropy in the ultrafast structural
transition of VO2
11:15- 11:30 AM Break
11:30 – 12:30 PM Simon Wall (ICFO Barcelona) Resonant soft X-ray holographic imaging of quantum
materials: Toward femtosecond and nanoscale dynamics at
FELs
12:30 – 6:00 PM Lunch, Discussion and Research

Tuesday, July 24

9:00 – 10:00 AM

Jeremy Levy (University of Pittsburgh)

One-Dimensional Nature of Superconductivity at the
LaAIO3/SrTiO3 Interface

10:00- 10:15 AM Break
10:15 – 11:15 AM Giacomo Coslovich (Stanford University) Charge order and superconductivity out-of-equilibrium:
ultrafast X-ray and THz studies
11:15 – 11:30 AM Break
11:30 – 12:30 PM Seongshik Oh (Rutgers University) Route to topological quantum effects via defect engineering
12:30 – 6:00 PM Lunch, Discussion and Research
6:30 PM Conference Dinner Park Avenue Summer, 360 Park Ave. South at East 26th St

Wednesday, July 25

9:00 – 10:00 AM

Darrell Schlom (Cornell University)

Designer Superconductors: Possible Routes to Increase the
Tc of Cuprates and Ruthenates

10:00 – 10:15 AM Break
10:15 – 11:15 AM Ivan Bozcovic (Brookhaven National Lab/ Yale University) What is really extraordinary in cuprate superconductors?
11:15 – 11:30 AM Break
11:30 – 12:30 PM Aditi Mitra (New York University) Transport signatures of transient superfluids
12:30 – 6:00 PM Lunch, Discussion and Research

Thursday, July 26

9:00 – 10:00 AM

Susanne Stemmer (UC Santa Barbara)

Tuning topological phenomena with heterostructures

10:00 – 10:15 AM Break
10:15 – 11:15 AM Jak Chakhalian (Rutgers University) Designer Quantum Matter: From ‘ferrolectric’ metal to
magnetic 2D electron liquid
11:15 – 11:30 AM Break
11:30 – 12:30 PM Jean-Marc Triscone (University of Geneva) SrTiO3 bulk and interfacial superconductivity
12:30 – 6:00 PM Lunch, Discussion and Research

Friday, July 27

9:00 – 11:00 AM Conference summary and discussion
10:00 – 10:15 AM Break
10:15 AM – 12:00PM Conference summary and discussion
12:30 – 6:00 PM Lunch, Discussion and Research

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