7th International Conference on Photoinduced Phase Transitions and Cooperative Phenomena (PIPT7)
Abstract
We would like to request funding to support the 7th International Conference on Photoinduced Phase Transitions (PIPT7), to be held in Santa Fe from June I 4-19, 2020. The goal of this conference series is to bring together leading experimentalists and theorists working in the field of ultrafast phenomena in cooperative systems and provide a forum for discussion on mechanisms of ultrafast optically induced phase transitions in condensed-matter systems, as well on potential applications. Rapid advances in ultrafast laser technology have now made highly selective probing of magnetic, electronic and structural degrees of freedom possible. in tum bringing photoinduced phase transition (PIPT) phenomena to the forefront. The PIPT conferences have been the main international meeting in the field of photoinduced phase transitions in cooperative systems. This event was first organized by Prof Keiichiro Nasu at Tsukuba in 2001, and continued in 2005 at Rennes, 2008 at Osaka, 2011 at Wroclaw, 2014 at Bled, and 2017 at Sendai. The key areas of PIPT include optically induced structural, electronic, magnetic or multiferroic phase transitions, femtosecond electronic and magnetic switching, and the generation of novel metastable states with fundamentally different physical properties. The material classes that will be discussed generally fall under the category of"quanturn materials", including magnetic materials, superconductors, charge and spin density waves, heavy fermions, Mott insulators, multiferroics, transition metal dichalcogenides, and topological insulators/semimetals. The focus of PIPT7 will be on the latest developments in the traditional key areas of photoinduced phase transitions and g cooperative phenomena, as well as emering areas including the discovery of thermodynamically inaccessible states of matter, uncovering new behavior in quantum systems far from equilibrium, and new strategies for controllably realizing desired quantum phases. These advances can provide new routes for guiding materials design and discovery, particularly towards potential applications in photonics, electronics, and quantum information. PIPT7 is expected to bring together about 100 researchers from USA, Europe, and Japan, and will capitalize on the fact that the area of non-equilibrium ultrafast phenomena is experiencing rapid growth, both in the number of researchers as well as the number of groups worldwide.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jul 09, 2020
- Source ID
- W911NF2010121
Entities
People
- Chong-Yu Ruan
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- Michigan State University
- United States Army