Light-Induced Dynamical Control of Quantum Materials: Light Control of Lattice and Symmetry

Presentations

• Understanding the formation of metastable polar supercrystals

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 20, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 20, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Publication: [1] Stoica, V. A. et al. Optical creation of a supercrystal with three-dimensional nanoscale periodicity. Nat. Mater. 18, 377 (2019).
  [2] Stoica, V. A. et al. Non-equilibrium pathways to emergent polar supertextures. Nat. Mater. 23, 1394 (2024).

  Presenters

  • John Freeland

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  Authors

  • John Freeland

    • Argonne National Laboratory

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• Polar Vortex Domain Walls Dynamics Directly Imaged using Ultrafast Electron Microscopy

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 20, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Sheng-Chih Lin

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Sheng-Chih Lin

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Alfred Zong

    • Stanford University

  • Michael Zuerch

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Emma Berger

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Sujit Das

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Ramamoorthy Ramesh

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • David Flannigan

    • University of Minnesota

  • Jialiang Chen

  • Turan Birol

    • University of Minnesota

  • Seongjoo Jung

    • University of Minnesota

  • Alexander Reid

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Duan Luo

  • Fuhao Ji

  • Joel England

  • Michael Minitti

  • Patrick Kramer

  • Xinxin Cheng

  • Xiaozhen Shen

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• Optical second harmonic generation fingerprint of order-disorder transition in electron-doped SrTiO₃

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Mohamed Kandil

    • Auburn University

  Authors

  • Mohamed Kandil

    • Auburn University

  • Wencan Jin

    • Auburn University

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• Dynamical breaking of inversion symmetry, strong second harmonic generation, and ferroelectricity with nonlinear phonons

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Publication: arXiv:2510.12990

  Presenters

  • Egor Kiselev

    • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

  Authors

  • Egor Kiselev

    • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

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• Spatiotemporal Imaging of Coherent Acoustic Phonons in Layered Ferroelectric NbOI₂

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Zhaodong Chu

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Zhaodong Chu

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Carter Fox

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Zixin Zhai

    • University of Texas at Dallas

  • Haihua Liu

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Priti Yadav

  • Bing Lv

    • University of Texas at Dallas

  • Thomas Gage

  • Jun Xiao

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Haidan Wen

    • Argonne National Laboratory

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• Evidence of circular shift vector observed in PT symmetric system induced by subgap photo excitation

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Casey Li

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Casey Li

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • XINSHU ZHANG

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Tyler Carbin

  • Kai Du

  • Kefeng Wang

  • Sang-Wook Cheong

    • Rutgers University

  • Daniel Kaplan

    • Rutgers University

  • Anshul Kogar

    • UCLA

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• Nonperturbative effects in second harmonic generation

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Publication: Keisuke Kitayama and Masao Ogata, "Nonperturbative effects in second harmonic generation", in preparation.

  Presenters

  • Keisuke Kitayama

    • Waseda University

  Authors

  • Keisuke Kitayama

    • Waseda University

  • Masao Ogata

    • Univ of Tokyo

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• Dynamical time-reversal symmetry breaking via orbital-resonant light–matter coupling

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Publication: A.S. Miñarro, G. Herranz, Phys. Rev. B 106, 165108 (2022)
  Miñarro, A. S., Villa, M., Casals, B., Plana-Ruiz, S., Sánchez, F., Gázquez, J., & Herranz, G.. Nature communications, 15(1), 8694 (2024)
  Miñarro, A. S., & Herranz, G. (2025). arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.16746.

  Presenters

  • Gervasi Herranz

    • Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)

  Authors

  • Gervasi Herranz

    • Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)

  • Alejandro Sánchez Miñarro

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• Abstract Withdrawn

  Withdrawn

  March 20, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:12 AM

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• Ab initio calculation of light-induced structural changes in low-angle twisted bilayer WSe₂

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Rafael Del Grande

    • University of California, Merced

  Authors

  • Rafael Del Grande

    • University of California, Merced

  • David Strubbe

    • University of California, Merced

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• Ultrafast dynamics of a moire charge-ordered superlattice

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Publication: arXiv:2509.16493; arXiv:2510.00204;

  Presenters

  • Honglie Ning

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Honglie Ning

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Kyoung Hun Oh

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Yifan Su

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Baiqing Lv

  • Alfred Zong

    • Stanford University

  • Zhengyan Shi

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Dong Wu

  • Qiaomei Liu

  • Gyeongbo Kang

  • Hyeongi Choi

  • Hyun-Woo Kim

    • POSTECH

  • Seunghyeok Ha

  • Jaehwon Kim

  • Suchismita Sarker

    • CHESS

  • Jacob Ruff

  • Xiaozhe Shen

  • Duan Luo

  • Stephen Weathersby

  • Patrick Kramer

  • B. J. Kim

  • Nan-Lin Wang

    • Peking Univ

  • Senthil Todadri

  • Hoyoung Jang

    • Pohang Accelerator Laboratory

  • Nuh Gedik

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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