[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] ITAMP/HQOC Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar - Wednesday, December 13, 2017 @ 4:15

ITAMP/HQOC Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar Wednesday, December 13, 2017 4:15 PM, Jefferson 250 Prof. Andrea Cavalleri, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg GERMANY Department of Physics, University of Oxford “Nonlinear THz optics as probe of quantum solids” In this lecture, I will discuss how coherent electromagnetic radiation at infrared and TeraHertz frequencies can be used to collective excitations like phonons in solids. I will emphasize experiments in which hidden features the superconducting order parameter can be revealed. I will also discuss advances in the nonlinear response of phonons, which I will show can be used as a probe of the interatomic potential of a solid. Guest Presentation will begin at 4:30 PM Refreshments will be provided. Thank you, Samantha Dakoulas Faculty Assistant to Professors Lukin & Greiner & their groups Department of Physics 17 Oxford St., Lyman 324A Cambridge, MA 02138 P. (617) 496-2544