Brebis Bleaney Memorial Lecture: Driven Quantum Materials
Professor Cavalleri will discuss how coherent electromagnetic radiation at Tera-Herz frequencies can be used to drive quantum solids periodically, leading to non-equilibrium magnetic, ferroelectric and superconducting phases. These ordering phenomena are sometimes observed at temperatures higher than the thermodynamic transition temperatures, due to induced synchronization between otherwise incoherent fluctuations. I will also discuss how these phenomena can be interrogated, introducing along the way many innovations in experimental methods to study materials physics at the shortest timescales.
Date: 1 June 2021, 17:00
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Professor Andrea Cavalleri (Physics)
Organiser: Helen Smith (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: eahod@physics.ox.ac.uk
Host: Prof Paolo Radaelli (Dept of Physics)
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brebis-bleaney-memorial-lecture-driven-quantum-materials-prof-cavalleri-tickets-153035159281
Cost: FOC
Audience: Public
Editor: Helen Smith