From photoacoustics to Floquet matter: fun with classical and quantum driven systems

Speaker: 
David M. Weld
Institution: 
UCSB
Date: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Time: 
4:00 pm
Location: 
NS2 1201

Abstract:

Strong driving enables the realization of phenomena beyond those achievable with static Hamiltonians.  I will discuss a range of experiments on driven systems, extending from an investigation of photoacoustics in nanostructured aggregates to a search for emergent Floquet phases of matter in a quantum gas.

Host: 
Jing Xia