Status | Confirmed |
Seminar Series | SEM-PHYS-ENS |
Subjects | cond-mat.mes-hall |
Date | Tuesday 6 February 2018 |
Time | 17:15 |
Institute | DPT-PHYS-ENS |
Seminar Room | room Jean Jaurès (29 rue d'Ulm) |
Speaker's Last Name | Bloch |
Speaker's First Name | Jacqueline |
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Speaker's Institution | Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Marcoussis |
Title | Fluids of light in semiconductor lattice |
Abstract | When confining photons in semiconductor lattices, their physical properties can be deeply modified. Photons can behave as massive, or even infinitely massive, particles, photons can propagate along edge states without back scattering, photons can become superfluid, photons can behave as interacting particles. These are just a few examples of the properties that can be imprinted into fluids of light in semiconductor lattices. Such manipulation of light presents not only potential for applications in photonics, but it is also a great promise for fundamental studies. One can design artificial media with very exotic physical properties at the single particle level or even more interestingly with many-body interactions. I will illustrate the variety of physical systems we can emulate with fluids of light by presenting a few recent experiments. Perspectives in terms of quantum simulation will be discussed. |
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