Optical and Structural Control of Quantum Materials: Kick-Off Symposium for the Max Planck-New York Center for Non-Equilibrium Quantum Phenomena
Workshop
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When
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All Day
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All Day
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All Day
Where
160 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor Conference Room
160 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
Monday, April 28
| 8:00 – 9:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 – 9:05 AM | Welcome/Introduction | |
| 9:05 – 9:50 AM | Philip Kim (Harvard University) | Strongly cooperative interlayer exciton emission in atomically thin light emitting diode |
| 9:50 – 10:35 AM | Tony Heinz (Stanford University) | Probing and controlling exciton localization in 2D materials |
| 10:35 – 11:05 AM | Break | |
| 11:05 – 11:25 AM | Nishchhal Verma (Columbia University) | Time-dependent Quantum geometry: from sum rules to projected interactions |
| 11:25 – 11:45 AM | Hope Bretscher (MPSD) | Cavity electrodynamics of vdW heterostructures |
| 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM | Jacqueline Bloch (Saclay) | Universal scaling laws in the coherence decay of polariton BEC |
| 12:30 – 2:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:30 – 3:15 PM | Harold Hwang (Stanford University) | Correlated states in nickelates |
| 3:15 – 3:45 PM | Andrej Singer (Cornell University) | Unlocking Non-Equilibrium Phases: How Strain and Light Transform a Mott Material |
| 3:45 – 4:15 PM | Break | |
| 4:15 – 4:35 PM | Daniele Nicoletti (MPSD) | Recent advances in the optical control of superconductivity in high-Tc cuprates |
| 4:35 – 5:20 PM | Nuh Gedik (MIT) | Visualizing terahertz light-matter coupling in a twodimensional superconductor |
| 5:30 – 7:00 PM | Reception |
Tuesday, April 29
| 8:00 – 9:00AM | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 – 9:45 AM | Keith Nelson (MIT) | A new era of coherent control |
| 9:45 – 10:05 AM | Omar Mehio (Cornell University) | Towards cavity-induced ferroelectricity in SrTiO3 |
| 10:05 – 10:25 AM | Itai Keren (Columbia University) | Cavity-Altered Superconductivity Probed by Meissner Force Microscopy |
| 10:25 – 10:55 AM | Break | |
| 10:55 – 11:15 AM | Yiping Wang (Columbia University) | Non-equilibrium view of correlated phases in moiré |
| 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM | Feng Wang (Berkeley) | Electron-hole fluid in van der Waals heterostructures |
| 12:00 – 2:30 PM | Lunch & Free Discussion Time | |
| 2:30 – 3:00 PM | Kenji Yasuda (Cornell University) | Physics and Application of Sliding Ferroelectrics |
| 3:00 – 3:20 PM | Carolin Gold (Columbia University) | Engineering and imaging microscopic properties in graphene heterostructures |
| 3:20 – 3:40 PM | Sam Moore (Columbia University) | Van der Waals waveguide quantum electrodynamics probed by infrared nano-photoluminescence |
| 3:40 – 4:10 PM | Break | |
| 4:10 – 4:30 PM | Jenny Coulter (CCQ) | Developments in first-principles electron-phonon transport predictions |
| 4:30 – 5:15 PM | Ian Fisher (Stanford University) | Strain-control of quantum materials: the case of multipolar order |
| 5:15 – 6:00 | Discussion | |
| 6:00 – 7:30 PM | Dinner |
Wednesday, April 30
| 8:00 – 9:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 – 9:45 AM | Junichiro Kono (Rice University) | Cavity-Dressed Quantum Materials |
| 9:45 – 10:15 AM | Nicholas Rivera (Cornell University) | Generating bright quantum light with driven phonons in an optical fiber |
| 10:15 – 10:45 AM | Break | |
| 10:45 – 11:05 AM | Matt Day (MPSD) | Optical Control Over Topological Transport in Quantum Materials |
| 11:05 – 11:25 AM | Junho Seo (MPSD) | Transport evidence for chiral surface states from 3D Landau bands |
| 11:25 – 12:10 AM | Jerome Faist (ETH Zurich) | Manipulating electron correlations in the quantum Hall with vacuum fields |
| 12:10- 12:15 PM | Closing Remarks | |
| 12:15 – 2:30 PM | Lunch & Departure |
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