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SUMMARY:IMX Seminar Series - Atom-scale quantum choreography to the beat o
 f light
DTSTART:20211206T131500
DTEND:20211206T141500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Rupert Huber\, Regensburg University\, German\n\nUnderst
 anding the function of novel quantum materials calls for means to directly
  watch their elementary building blocks in motion\, on their intrinsic len
 gth and time scales. Recently\, lightwave electronics has made this long-s
 tanding dream come true. The idea is to exploit the carrier wave of light 
 as an ultrafast bias to interrogate and control the nanocosm. I will first
  review how lightwaves can drive electrons in solids\, such as 2D material
 s and topological insulators\, into surprising sub-cycle quantum motion. B
 y combining this idea with the spatial resolution of scanning tunneling mi
 croscopy we record the first atom-scale slow-motion movies of individual v
 ibrating molecules. Lightwaves inside the tunnelling junction can even 
 serve as femtosecond atomic forces to choreo­graph a coherent structural 
 motion of a single-molecule switch. This concept offers a radically new wa
 y of directly watching and controlling key elementary dynamics in nature a
 nd steer (bio)chemical reactions or ultrafast phase transitions\, on their
  intrinsic spatio-temporal scales.\n\n\n 
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63529996287
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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