Events

Magneto-Optics in Quantum Materials Conference

When: Monday, September 9, 2024 — 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM CT and Tuesday, September 10, 2024 — 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT

Where: ERC 161, William Eckhardt Research Center, 5640 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 

Description: Register for an intensive two-day event, co-hosted by Quantum Design and the Chicago Quantum Exchange, featuring the latest advancements in magneto-optics, the study of ultrafast phenomena in magnetic fields, and scanning probe nanoscopy for quantum materials. Participate in the inauguration of the Teaching & Materials Discovery Laboratory at the University of Chicago featuring the Quantum Design OptiCool®. Interact with the Quantum Design Q-Works team responsible for designing the OptiCool, and discover the newest measurement customizations including the Lake Shore FastHall™ measurement-ready system for the OptiCool. 

How to attend: Registration is now closed.

Time (CST) 

 Event Speaker(s)

8:30 – 9:00 AM

Registration & coffee 

 

9:00 – 9:15 AM

Opening Remarks

 

  • David Awschalom (University of Chicago and Chicago Quantum Exchange)
  • Stefano Spagna (Quantum Design)
  • D. N. Basov (Columbia University)

9:15 – 10:30 AM

Collective Excitations in Quantum Magnets
  • Xiaodong Xu, (University of Washington) Exciton-Magnon Coupling in CrSBr
  • Elaine Li (University of Texas at Austin) Collective excitations in a quantum magnet
  • Suyang Xu (Harvard University) TBD

10:30 – 10:45 AM

Break

 

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM

Current and Field Switching of Quantum States
  • Riccardo Comin (MIT) Electrical switching of a polar odd-parity magnet
  • Denis Bandurin (National University of Singapore) Viscous terahertz photoconductivity caused by the super-ballistic flow of hydrodynamic electrons in graphene.
  • Jigang Wang (Ames, Iowa State University) Symmetry Instability of Topological States Controlled by Magneto-THz Photocurrent Switches

12:00 – 2:00 PM

Lunch and lab tours

 

2:00 PM – 3:15 PM

THz and Cyclotron Resonances
  • Peter Armitage (Johns Hopkins University) THz range cyclotron resonance experiments on interacting metals
  • Erik Henriksen (University of Washington St. Louis) Cyclotron resonance probe and the canted antiferromagnet in bilayer graphene
  • James Mclver (Columbia University) Cavity electrodynamics of van der Waals heterostructures

3:15 – 3:50 PM

Group discussion and coffee
  • Moderator: Mengkun Liu (Stony Brook University)

3:50 – 5:30

Twisting, Topology, and Fractional States
  • Keji Lai (University of Texas at Austin) Milli-Kelvin Microwave Imaging of Topological Edge States
  • Monica Allen (University of California San Diego) In-situ twisting and imaging of moiré superlattices.
  • Long Ju (MIT) Integer and Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects in Rhombohedral Graphene
  • Zhurun Ji (MIT) Local microwave probe of bulk and edge states in a fractional Chern insulator

Time (CST) 

 Event Speaker(s)

9:00 – 10:15 AM

Ultrafast Dynamics of Quantum Matter
  • Xiaoyang Zhu (Columbia University) Time Domain Views of 2D van der Waals Quantum Matter
  • Chenhao Jin (University of California Santa Barbara) Ultrafast imaging of magnetic excitations in two-dimensional magnets
  • Alexander von Hoegen (MIT) Light induced metastable magnetization in a 2D antiferromagnet

10:15 – 10:30 PM

Networking Break

 

10:30 AM – 12:10 PM

Optical Sensing of Quantum States
  • Kin Fai Mak (Cornell University) Exciton sensing of condensed matter phenomena
  • Diana Qiu (Yale University) Many-body Effects on Nonlinear Optics and High Harmonic Generation in Low-Dimensional Solids
  • Yinming Shao (Penn State University) Magneto-optics of hidden quasiparticles in topological semimetals

12:10 – 1:30 PM

Lunch

 

1:30  – 2:45 PM

Nonlinear Spectroscopy and Microscopy of Quantum Magnets
  • Fahad Mahmood (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Magneto-optical THz emission spectroscopy of quantum materials
  • Liang Wu (University of Pennsylvania) Magneto-nonlinear optical responses in 2D antiferromagnets
  • Liuyan Zhao (University of Michigan) Visualizing two subsequent magnetic phase transitions in a helimagnet candidate

2:45 – 3:45 PM

Group discussion and coffee
  • Moderator: Richard Averitt (University of California San Diego)

3:45 PM – 4:35 PM

Spin and Quantum Sensing
  • Peter Maurer (University of Chicago) Interfacing Biomolecules with Coherent Quantum Sensors
  • Xiaoxiao Zhang (University of Florida) Resonant optical detection of 2D spin textures

4:35 – 5:00 PM

Closing Remarks

 
  • Prof. Mengkun Liu, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  • Prof. David Awschalom, University of Chicago
  • Prof. Dmitri Basov, Columbia University
  • Prof. Richard Averitt, University of California San Diego
  • Dr. Stefano Spagna, Quantum Design International