CASE Auditorium (Center for Academic Success & Engagement)

Cavity QED from Manybody Physics to Transduction

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Abstract: In this talk, I will describe recent developments in the Simon/Schuster collaboration, where we are harnessing cavity quantum electrodynamics for both manybody physics and quantum information. I will begin with an overview of our photonic quantum materials efforts, highlighting the analogy between photons in a lattice of cavities (or family of cavity modes) and electrons in solids.

Fracton Dynamics

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Abstract: I will introduce a new class of quantum states of matter, known as ‘fracton phases.’ I will explain how these phases provide a new frontier for non-equilibrium quantum dynamics, offering novel routes to ergodicity breaking, and new classes of hydrodynamic phenomena. I will also comment on how insights gleaned from the study of fractons can be applied to quantum dynamics in broader contexts.

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Refreshments @ 3:30 p.m.

Ultrafast and ultracold quantum simulator/computer with attosecond precision

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Abstract: Many-body correlations govern a variety of important quantum phenomena including the emergence of superconductivity and magnetism in condensed matter as well as chemical reactions in liquids. Understanding quantum many-body systems is thus one of the central goals of modern sciences and technologies. Here we demonstrate a new pathway towards this goal by generating a strongly correlated ultracold Rydberg gas with a broadband ultrashort laser pulse.