Cavity Control: From Condensed Matter to Ultracold Atoms
Confining electromagnetic fields in cavities has emerged as an important new tool to create and control complex quantum systems. The first experimental realizations were based on ultracold atoms and on semiconductor heterostructures with the generation of polaritonic quantum fluids of light. Since then, efforts on applications in quantum technologies are ongoing, where extremely well controlled atomic or ionic building blocks are assembled to
generate highly entangled states of matter. Besides the promising advancements for quantum simulation and computing, the recent achievements in cavity-enabled control of molecular reactions and the manipulation of electronic properties in strongly correlated electronic materials have opened two new and rapidly evolving research directions.
This interdisciplinary workshop brings together leading experts and early-career researchers working on different aspects of cavity control, and provides an environment to share ideas, find synergies and establish new collaborations. Topics will include cavity field fluctuations, cavity polaritonics, cavity control of phase transitions in ultracold atoms and in materials, entanglement for quantum networks, as well as applications in quantum sensing, quantum computing, and quantum simulation.
Invited speakers:
Ileana-Christina Benea-Chelmus (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
Jacqueline Bloch (CNRS – Université Paris Saclay, France)
Jean-Philippe Brantut (EPF Lausanne, France)
Cristiano Ciuti (University Paris Cite, France)
Daniele Fausti (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Ataç İmamoğlu (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Corinna Kollath (Universität Bonn, Germany)
Frieder Lindel (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Olivier Morin (Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany)
Tracy Northup (Universität Innsbruck, Austria)
Tobias Nova (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Francesco Piazza (Universität Augsburg, Germany)
Ana-Maria Rey (University of Colorado, USA)
Michael Sentef (Universität Bremen, Germany)
Jonathan Simon (Stanford University, USA)
Parvinder Solanki (Universität Tübingen, Germany)
Dan Stamper-Kurn (UC Berkeley, USA)
Richard Warburton (Universität Basel, Switzerland)