Title: Strong-fields and Photons in Solids, from Classical to Quantum Light
When: Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 15:00
Place: Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Module 5, Seminar Room (5th Floor)
Speaker: David N. Purschke, Joint Attosecond Science Laboratory, University of Ottawa and National Research Council of Canada, Canada.,
At the surface, strong-field physics and quantum optics seem to operate in disparate regimes of light-matter interaction. Nevertheless, the growing field of attosecond quantum optics is beginning to bridge this gap, with the solid state providing an ideal platform of study [1]. I will discuss two experiments at this intersection: in the first, we see how a photon picture emerges from a laser-dressed crystal using classical light [2]. In the second, we begin to study field-driven processes with emerging non-classical and intense sources known as bright-squeezed vacuum [3].
References
- L. Cruze-Rodriguez et al. “Quantum phenomena in attosecond science,” Nat. Rev. Phys. 19 (2023).
- D. N Purschke et al. “Microscopic mechanisms of high-order wavemixing in solids,” Phys. Rev. A 108 (2023).
- S. Lemieux et al. “Photon bunching in high-harmonic emission controlled by quantum light” arXiv:2404.05474.
