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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Harvard Physics Colloquium Tea & Colloquium Talk
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SUMMARY:Harvard Physics Colloquium Tea & Colloquium Talk
DESCRIPTION:<p>	<a data-url="https://harvard.zoom.us/j/284339257" href="https://harvard.zoom.us/j/284339257" target="_blank" title="">Zoom Link</a></p><p>	Virtual Tea will begin at 4:00pm<br>Colloquium Talk will begin at 4:30pm</p><p>	<strong>Professor Matteo Mitrano (Harvard University)</strong></p><p>	<strong>Controlling quantum materials with light</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">	<span style="text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style='NewRoman",serif'>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.</span></span></p>
LOCATION:Zoom - Please see link below
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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