Workshop on Materials in Quantum Cavities and Excitonic Insulators
Workshop
When
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All Day
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All Day
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All Day
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All Day
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All Day
Where
162 Fifth Avenue, 9th Floor Classroom
160 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
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 |
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