Harnessing Light-Matter Interactions in Quantum Materials
Workshop
When
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Where
162 Fifth Avenue, 9th Floor Classroom
160 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
Agenda
Monday, August 8
| 8:00 – 9:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 – 9:45 AM (45) | David Hsieh (CalTech) | |
| 9:45 – 10:30 AM (45) | Rick Averitt (UCSD) | Investigating order parameter dynamics and control in quantum materials using terahertz spectroscopy |
| 10:30 – 11:00 AM (30) | Break | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 AM (45) | Nicole Benedek (Cornell University) | Ultrafast optical control of multifunctional materials via the lattice: Lessons from the multiferroics community |
| 11:45 – 12:30 PM (45) | Ankit Disa (MPSD/Cornell University) | Using the crystal lattice to optically control magnetic phases |
| 12:30 – 2:30 PM (2hr) | Lunch | |
| 2:30 – 4:00 PM (1hr 30min) | Discussion | |
| 4:00 – 4:30 PM (30) | Break | |
| 4:30 – 5:15 PM (45) | Prineha Narang (Harvard/UCLA) | Shining New Light on Quantum Matter from a Theory Perspective |
| 5:15 – 6:00 PM (45) | Gil Refael (CalTech) | Topological frequency conversion in Weyl semimetals |
| 6:00- 7:30 PM | Opening Reception |
Tuesday, August 9
| 8:00 – 9:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 – 9:45 AM (45) | Anshul Kogar (UCLA) | Long range order and fluctuations in light-triggered charge density wave transitions |
| 9:45 – 10:30 AM (45) | Doron Azoury (MIT) | Direct measurement of charge order collective modes in a topological kagome metal |
| 10:30 – 11:00 AM (30) | Break | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 AM (45) | Michele Buzzi (MPSD) | Optical Control of Superconductivity in Organic Superconductors |
| 11:45 – 12:30 PM (45) | Dieter Jaksch (Oxford/Hamburg) | |
| 12:30 – 2:30 PM (2hr) | Lunch | |
| 2:30 – 3:45 PM (1hr 15min) | Discussion | |
| 3:45 – 4:30 PM (45) | Angel Rubio (CCQ/MPSD) | A first principles perspective on light-driven non-equilibrium phenomena in molecules and two dimensional systems |
| 4:30 – 5:15 PM (45) | Marco Schiro (College de France) | Controlling topological phases of matter with quantum light |
| 5:15 – 6:00 PM (45) | Gregory Fiete (Northeastern) | Manipulation of magnetic order and band topology through selective phonon excitation |
Wednesday, August 10
| 8:00 – 9:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 – 9:45 AM (45) | Yuta Murakami (RIKEN) | Emerging nonequilibrium phases due to relaxation bottlenecks in strongly correlated systems |
| 9:45 – 10:30 AM (45) | Ana Asenjo Garcia (Columbia University) | Quantum many-body physics via correlated dissipation |
| 10:30 – 11:00 AM (30) | Break | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 AM (45) | Simon Wall (Aarhus University) | Coherent spin-wave transport in an antiferromagnet |
| 11:45 – 12:30 PM (45) | Andrea Caviglia (Delft/Geneva) | Coherent spin-wave transport in an antiferromagnet |
| 12:30 – 2:30 PM (2hr) | Lunch | |
| 2:30 – 4:00 PM (1hr 30min) | Discussion | |
| 4:00 – 4:30 PM (30) | Break | |
| 4:30 – 5:15 PM (45) | Xiaoyang Zhu (Columbia) | New optical spin Hall effect in cavity exciton-polariton condensates |
| 5:15 – 6:00 PM (45) | Zhiyuan Sun (Harvard) | Dynamical exciton condensates in biased electron-hole bilayers: cavity engineering and superradiant states |
| 6:00- 7:30 PM | Dinner | Sweetbriar |
Thursday, August 11
| 8:00 – 9:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 – 9:45 AM (45) | Gil-Ho Lee (POSTECH) | Steady Floquet–Andreev states in graphene Josephson junctions |
| 9:45 – 10:30 AM (45) | Aditi Mitra (NYU) | Floquet chains and the stability of their edge modes |
| 10:30 – 11:00 AM (30) | Break | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 AM (45) | Matteo Mitrano (Harvard) | Witnessing many-body entanglement in light-driven quantum materials |
| 11:45 – 12:30 PM (45) | Denis Golez (Jožef Stefan Institute) | Characterizing microscopic interactions via photo-induced lifetime changes |
| 12:30 – 2:30 PM (2hr) | Lunch/Workshop concluding |
Participants
| Ana Asenjo Garcia | Columbia University |
| Rick Averitt | UC San Diego |
| Doron Azoury | MIT |
| Nicole Benedek | Cornell University |
| Edoardo Baldini | UT Austin |
| Michele Buzzi | Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter |
| Andrea Caviglia | University of Geneva |
| Ankit Disa | Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter |
| Gregory Fiete | Northeastern University |
| Simon Gerber | Paul Scherrer Institute |
| Denis Golez | Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| David Hsieh | CalTech |
| Dieter Jaksch | University of Oxford |
| Anshul Kogar | UC Los Angeles |
| Gil-Ho Lee | Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) |
| Aditi Mitra | NYU |
| Matteo Mitrano | Harvard University |
| Yuta Murakami | RIKEN |
| Prineha Narang | Harvard University |
| Gil Refael | CalTech |
| Angel Rubio | CCQ, MPSD |
| Zhiyuan Sun | Harvard University |
| Simon Wall | Aarhus University |
| Xiaoyang Zhu | Columbia University |
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