#  Harvard Physics Colloquium Tea & Colloquium Talk 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 30, 2020** 

 04:00PM - 05:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Zoom - Please see link below**  



 

 



 

 [Zoom Link](https://harvard.zoom.us/j/284339257)

 Virtual Tea will begin at 4:00pm  
Colloquium Talk will begin at 4:30pm

 **Professor Matteo Mitrano (Harvard University)**

 **Controlling quantum materials with light**

 Modern condensed matter physics is increasingly focused on materials exhibiting macroscopic quantum-mechanical effects (“quantum materials”) and on ways to manipulate their electronic properties. Ultrafast optical excitation, especially when resonant to specific lattice modes, has recently emerged as a powerful mean to induce new functionalities in quantum materials and to control their properties. A most ambitious goal is to selectively drive structural or electronic degrees of freedom to bring about nonequilibrium superconductivity at temperatures far above the thermodynamic critical temperature Tc. In this talk, I will discuss how midinfrared optical excitation led to transient superconductivity above the equilibrium Tc in cuprates and molecular solids. I will then show how time-resolved x-ray scattering methods can provide new insights into the charge, spin and lattice response of these light-driven states of matter.



 

 

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