Title: Engineering electronic matter with exciton polaritons
When: Thursday, September 18, 2025, 12:00
Place: Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Module 5, Seminar Room (5th Floor)
Speaker: Meera M. Parish (School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University)
Recently, there has been much interest in using light to manipulate the properties of materials, thus opening the prospect of realizing states of matter that go beyond those allowed by the constraints imposed by material science or chemistry [1]. In this talk, I will explore how the behavior of electronic and excitonic systems can be modified in the regime of strong light-matter coupling. I will particularly focus on exciton polaritons in semiconductor microcavities, where the coupling to light can enhance the interactions between charges [2] and lead to superconductivity at elevated temperatures in atomically thin materials [3].
References
- J. Bloch, A. Cavalleri, V. Galitski, M. Hafezi, and A. Rubio, Nature 606, 41 (2022).
- G. Li, O. Bleu, M. M. Parish, and J. Levinsen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 197401 (2021).
- K. Choo, O. Bleu, M. M. Parish, and J. Levinsen, arXiv: 2508.09619
