UConn Physics Colloquium
“Controlling Quantum Materials with Light”
Andrea Cavalleri
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg GERMANY
Department of Physics, University of Oxford
Abstract: I will discuss how coherent electromagnetic radiation at infrared and TeraHertz frequencies can be used to drive collective excitations in solids nonlinearly. The driven cooperative response can yield new types functional control. I will for example discuss experiments in which phonons are manipulated, amplified and used to drive electronic coherences in solids. I will also discuss the physics of superconducting plasmons in layered superconductors and how these reveal new nonlinear THz phenomena.
Friday, November 22, 2019
3:30 p.m.
Biology Physics Building
Room BPB-131
Cookies will be served prior to the talk, at 3:00 p.m. outside room BPB-131
For more information, contact: Anna Huang at Anna.huang@uconn.edu