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SUMMARY:IMX Seminar Series - Controlling quantum materials with light
DTSTART:20231106T131500
DTEND:20231106T141500
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Gregor Jotzu\, EPFL\nChanging the properties of material
 s on demand using external parameters is a crucial method: for generating 
 new functionalities and for understanding the conditions which allow for t
 he appearance of emergent order. Using laser light for this purpose is a p
 articularly interesting approach\, as it provides\ncontrol on the fundamen
 tal time scales governing a solid\, and may lead to the creation of non-eq
 uilibrium steady states without static equivalents. I will present recent 
 experiments demonstrating that laser-driven quantum materials can display 
 room-temperature superconducting electrical and magnetic properties. Progr
 ess in this research direction is benefitting from current breakthroughs i
 n both experimental techniques for strongly driving collective modes and e
 xtending\nnew observables to the ultrafast regime\, but also from theoreti
 cal advancements in the simulation of many-body systems. This paves the wa
 y for exploring phenomena ranging from quantum magnetism to topological su
 perconductivity under a new light.\n\nBio: Prof. Jotzu is currently a tenu
 re-track assistant professor in the Institute of Materials at EPFL. His re
 search concerns the control of quantum materials using intense low-frequen
 cy laser pulses and the dynamics of order formation in strongly correlated
  quantum systems. After reading physics at Oxford\,\nhe became the von Cle
 mm Fellow at Harvard University. He received his doctorate from ETH Zurich
  and his work there was recognized with the Prize in General Physics by th
 e Swiss Physical Society. Before joining EPFL\, he was a researcher at the
  Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg.
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