Program

Time

Host/Speaker/Location

Event

18:00-20:00

Intercontinental Hotel

Welcome reception

 

Time

Host/Speaker/Location

Event

8:30-9:00

Rice University, O’Connor Building 5th

Breakfast + Registration

9:00-9:05

Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Vice Provost of Research

Welcome remark

9:05-9:10

Thomas Killian, Dean of School of Natural Science

Welcome remark

9:10-9:15

Hanyu Zhu

Opening remark by the organizers

Session 1

Chair: Jun Kono

 

9:15-10:00

Cristiano Ciuti

Recent Progress on the Theory of Cavity-Modified Quantum Transport and Topological Properties of 2D Electron Systems

10:00-10:45

Jerome Faist

Cavity mediated transport in the quantum Hall effect

10:45-11:30

Alfred Leitenstorfer

Time-Domain Quantum Electrodynamics

11:30-12:30

 

Lunch

Session 2

Chair: Hanyu Zhu

 

12:30-1:15

Peter Rabl

Effective Models, Ground States, and the Coupling Strength in Cavity QED

1:15-2:00

Stephanie Reich

Ultrastrong light-matter coupling in materials

2:00-2:45

Alexey Belyanin

Strong coupling in open many-qubit systems: nonlinear parametric resonance and formation of long-lived entangled states

2:45-3:15

 

Coffee break

Session 3

Chair: Han Pu

 

3:15-4:00

Angel Rubio

Cavity Quantum Materials Engineering from ab initio Simulations

4:00-4:45

Daniele Fausti

Cavity-mediated thermal control of metal-to-insulator transition in 1T-TaS2

4:45-5:15

Matthew Trusheim

Strongly cavity-coupled solid-state quantum sensors

5:15-7:00

 

Poster session

7:00-9:00

Speakers & Rice faculty

El Tiempo Cantina

 

Time

Host/Speaker/Location

Event

8:30-9:15

Rice University, O’Connor Building 5th

Breakfast

Session 4

Chair: Kaden Hazzard

9:15-10:00

Susanne Yelin

QED with cooperative atom arrays

10:00-10:45

Hui Deng

Vacuum Engineering for 2D Semiconductors

10:45-11:30

Stéphane Kéna-Cohen

Modifying Molecular Photophysics with Strong Light-Matter Coupling

11:30-1:00

 

Lunch

Session 5

Chair: Andrey Baydin

1:00-1:45

Benedetta Flebus

A Solid-State Platform for Cooperative Quantum Phenomena

1:45-2:30

Han Pu

Multicritical Dicke Model

2:30-2:45

Jun Kono

Closing remark

  • Takayuki Kurihara, University of Tokyo, Japan
    “Observation of spontaneous spin switching in orthoferrite by femtosecond noise correlation spectroscopy”
  • Dasom Kim, Rice University, TX, U.S.A.
    “Magnonic Dicke Superradiant Phase Transition for Ground-State Perfect Squeezing”
  • Fuyang Tay, Rice University, TX, U.S.A.
    “Ultrastrong Photon-Photon Coupling”
  • Hongjing Xu, Rice University, TX, U.S.A.
    “Interplay between Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics and Superconductivity”
  • Elijah Kritzell, Rice University, TX, U.S.A.
    “Simulation of the Dicke Model in the Ultrastrong Coupling Regime using Paramagnetic Spins”
  • Diego Fallas Padilla, Rice University, TX, U.S.A.
    “The Quantum Rabi Ring and Its Connections to Quantum Magnetism”
  • Jiaming Luo, Rice University, TX, U.S.A.
    “Large effective magnetic field from chiral phonons & Topological magnon-phonon strong coupling in monolayer magnets”
  • Rui Xu, Rice University, TX, U.S.A.
    “Polarization-insensitive surface phonon-polariton cavities in broad terahertz frequencies”
  • Tong Lin, Rice University, TX, U.S.A.
    “Phase-sensitive nonlinear phonon microscopy”
  • Sohail Dasgupta and Haotian Wei, Rice University, TX, U.S.A.
    “Theory of magnonic superradiance in erbium orthoferrite”
  • Hanyu Zhu, Rice University, TX, U.S.A.
    Phonon Floquet magnetization from Chiral Phonons
  • Zewen Zhang, Rice Univeristy, TX, U.S.A.
    Role of atom motion in Rydberg atom lattice