17 December 2019 Farokh Mivehvar

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KOÇ UNIVERSITY PHYSICS SEMINAR
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Speaker: Farokh Mivehvar
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck
Title: Emergent Collective Phenomena in Many-Body Cavity QED
Date: December 17, 2019
Time: 14:30
Cookie & Tea: SCI 103, 14:15
Place: SCI 103
web: https://physics-seminars.ku.edu.tr/

Abstract:

Experimental progress in strongly coupling quantum gases into quantized electromagnetic fields of quantum cavities has opened a new avenue in many-body physics — referred to commonly as many-body cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) — where the dynamics of both quantum matter and electromagnetic fields play equally essential roles. In this talk, after a review of state of the art in many-body cavity QED I will present some of our recent theoretical works on many-body cavity QED. In particular, I will talk about emergent magnetic orders [1] and driven-dissipative supersolid [2] in many-body cavity QED systems. As an interesting application of many-body cavity QED, I will present our new proposal for a precise gravimeter based on supersolid-like states in a ring cavity [3]. Finally, if time allows, I will then talk about emergent quasicrystalline symmetries in light-induced quantum phase transitions in the framework of many-body cavity QED [4].

1. F. Mivehvar, H. Ritsch, and F. Piazza, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 113603 (2019).

2. F. Mivehvar, S. Ostermann, F. Piazza, and H. Ritsch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 123601 (2018)

3. K. Gietka, F. Mivehvar, H. Ritsch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 190801 (2019).

4. F. Mivehvar, H. Ritsch, and F. Piazza, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 210604 (2019).

 Short Bio:

I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Tabriz, Azerbaijan. I then moved to Calgary, Canada for my graduate studies, where I received my Ph.D. in 2015 from the University of Calgary. After that I joined the group of Prof. Helmut Ritsch at the University of Innsbruck, Austria as a postdoctoral researcher. At the moment, I am a Lise-Meitner Research Fellow and FWF-ANR Principal Investigator at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.