[Cnqo] FW: [sopa-coll reminder] Quantum Fluids of Light 17/11/2021

[Daniel Oi]

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Event: Quantum Fluids of Light <https://samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtalk.jsp?id=17978>

Speaker: Iacopo Carusotto

Start time: 15:00, Wed 17 Nov 2021

Location: Zoom meeting

Description:

In this colloquium, we will give an overview of the emerging field of quantum fluids of light: in the presence of a finite effective mass due to light confinement and binary interactions mediated by the optical nonlinearity of the material medium, an assembly of photons behaves as a fluid of particles and displays intriguing hydrodynamic phenomena.

After reviewing early work on Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity in such systems, I will sketch some among the most exciting recent developments at the crossroad of many-body physics, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, and quantum optics.

The new features of topological lasing, aka non-equilibrium condensation into a topological edge mode, are capturing the interest of a wide community spanning across fundamental and applied research, from a remarkable topological protection of long-distance phase-locking to fabrication disorder to Kardar-Parisi-Zhang features in the emission coherence.

Strong efforts are presently devoted to the realization of strongly quantum correlated phases of photonic matter in a novel non-equilibrium context. After presenting recent realizations of Mott insulator and baby fractional quantum Hall fluids, I will sketch the new perspectives that these advances are opening for many-body physics and quantum technologies in general.

Zoom link:

https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/92269059737?pwd=L2V6L3ZwMHFHaGJDb0lTcFdMcXVRdz09

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