International
Winter School and Workshop on
Strongly correlated
fluids of light and matter
ECT*, Villazzano near
Trento, January 12th-23rd 2015
Scientific Programme:
Monday January 12th
9h00-9h30 get together + introduction by the organizers
chair i. Carusotto
9h30-11h00 Dalfovo 1 - Basics of the theory of dilute quantum gases
11h00-11h30 coffee
11h30-12h30 Rechtsman - Topological effects in propagating optics
chair C. Ciuti
14h30-16h00 Amo 1 - Polariton BECs and superfluids
16h00-16h30 coffee
16h30-17h15 Ramiro-Manzano - Silicon photonics
Tuesday January 13th
chair B. Deveaud
9h30-11h00 Dalfovo 2 - Basics of the theory of dilute quantum gases
11h00-11h30 coffee
11h30-13h00 Amo 2 - Polariton BECs and superfluids
chair D. Faccio
14h30-15h15 Deveaud - Feshbach resonances in polariton scattering
15h15-15h45 coffee
15h45-16h30 Wouters - Theory of polariton fluids
16h30-17h30 Nguyen & Gerace - Black holes in flowing polariton fluids in microcavities
17h30-17h50 Koghee - Dynamical Casimir Effect in Exciton-Polariton Condensates
Wednesday January 14th
chair M. Wouters
9h30-10h15 Faccio - Towards analog gravity in nonlinear optics
10h15-10h35 Larre - Quantum fluctuations in propagating nonlinear optics
10h35-11h00 coffee
11h00-11h45 Conti - Quantum gravity simulation and irreversibility in nonlinear optics
11h45-12h15 Piazza - Ultracold Fermions inside an optical cavity
12h15-13h00 Imamoglu - Quantum optics with two-dimensional materials
chair A. Amo
14h45-15h30 Ciuti - Recent results on the theory of strongly correlated photonics systems
15h30-16h15 Angelakis - Simulating out of equilibrium exotic phases with strongly interacting photons
16h15-16h45 coffee
16h45-17h30 Richard - Experiments with exciton-polariton fluids
17h30-18h00 Dominici - 2D+T trajectories and branching of phase singularities in a polariton fluid
Thursday January 15th
chair D. Angelakis
9h30-10h30 Verstraete 1- Entanglement and simulation of strongly correlated systems
10h30-11h00 coffee
11h00-12h00 Verstraete 2 - Entanglement and simulation of strongly correlated systems
12h00-12h45 Fazio - Introductory remarks to dissipative quantum phase transitions
chair M. Richard
14h30-15h15 Diehl - Non-equilibrium phase transitions in optics
15h15-15h35 Dagvadorj - Non-Equilibrium BKT transion in OPO
15h35-16h05 coffee
16h05-16h50 Keeling - Polariton and photon condensates in organic materials (TBC)
16h50-17h10 Chiocchetta - A quantum-Langevin model for non-equilibrium condensation
17h10-17h55 Rossini - Many-body simulations of open systems
Friday January 16th
chair D. Gerace
9h30-10h30 Verstraete 3 - Entanglement and simulation of strongly correlated systems
10h30-11h00 coffee
11h00-12h00 Verstraete 4 - Entanglement and simulation of strongly correlated systems
12h00-12h30 Bellec - Microwave experiments on edge states in topological and Dirac
materials
chair M. Hafezi
14h30-15h00 Bardyn - Topological polaritons
15h00-15h45 Simon - Topological Photonics: Braided Microwave Circuits and Twisted Resonators
15h45-16h15 coffee
16h15-17h00 Molina-Terriza - Angular momentum of light
17h00-17h20 Price - Quantum mechanics under a momentum space artificial magnetic field
17h20-17h40 Ozawa - Topological effects in microcavity photonics
Monday January 19th
chair D. Rossini
9h00-9h30 get together + introduction by the organizers
9h30-10h30 Stern 1 - Topologically protected states and topological quantum computation
10h30-11h00 coffee
11h00-12h00 Stern 2 - Topologically protected states and topological quantum computation
12h00-12h45 Bar Ad - Black holes in propagating fluids of light
chair C.-E. Bardyn
14h00-16h00 Devoret 1,2 - Superconducting quantum circuits
16h00-16h30 coffee
16h30-17h15 Bramati - Manipulating polariton fluids with structured light
17h15-18h00 Le Hur - Artificial Gauge Fields and Topological Phases
Tuesday January 20th
chair T. Ozawa
9h30-10h30 Stern 3 - Topologically protected states and topological quantum computation
10h30-11h00 coffee
11h00-12h00 Stern 4 - Topologically protected states and topological quantum computation
12h00-12h45 Tureci - Non-equilibrium physics in lasers and polariton BECs
chair A. Bramati
14h30-15h15 Savona - Quantum correlations in a state-of-the-art silicon photonic crystal platform
15h15-16h00 Hafezi - Topological effects in silicon photonics
16h00-16h30 coffee
16h30-17h15 Volz - Integrated fiber-cavity devices
17h15-18h00 Hartmann - Strongly interacting photons
Wednesday January 21st
chair R. Fazio
9h30-10h30 Kollath 1- Numerical methods for strongly correlated systems
10h30-11h00 coffee
11h00-12h00 Kollath 2 - Numerical methods for strongly correlated systems
chair R. Fazio
14h30-15h30 Devoret 3 - Superconducting quantum circuits
15h30-16h00 coffee
16h00-17h00 Devoret 4 - Superconducting quantum circuits
17h00-17h45 Weitz - Bose-Einstein condensation of photons and periodic potentials for light
Thursday January 22nd
chair C. Ciuti
9h30-10h30 Kollath 3 - Numerical methods for strongly correlated systems
10h30-11h00 coffee
11h00-12h00 Kollath 4 - Numerical methods for strongly correlated systems
12h00-12h45 Schmidt - Towards quantum simulation with circuit QED lattices
chair C. Ciuti
14h30-15h15 Solano - Analog-digital quantum simulators of interacting fermions and bosons
15h15-16h00 Mazza - Fractional States, Helical Liquids and Topological Phases in Multicomponent 1D Fermionic Gases
16h00-16h30 coffee
16h30-17h15 Bloch - Cavity polaritons in 1D lattices
Friday January 23rd
9h30-10h30 wrap-up round table
10h30-11h00 coffee
11h00-13h00 final discussion and closing