Light-Induced Dynamical Control of Quantum Materials: Cavity Control and Dynamics of Correlated Materials

Presentations

• Topology by Strong Light-Matter Coupling and Electrical Control

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 18, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Publication: [1] Xie, X., Sun, K. & Deng, H. "Polariton Chern Bands in 2D Photonic Crystals beyond Dirac Cones." Phys. Rev. X 15, 021061 (2025). doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.15.021061.
  [2] Xie, X., Li, Q., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Lee, C., Sun, K. & Deng, H. "2D material exciton-polariton transport on 2D photonic crystals." Science Advances 11, eads0231 (2025). doi:10.1126/sciadv.ads0231.
  [3] Zhou, L., Liu, B., Liu, Y., Lu, Y., Li, Q., Xie, X., Lydick, N., Hao, R., Liu, C., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Chou, Y.-H., Forrest, S. R. & Deng, H. "Cavity Floquet engineering." Nat Commun 15, 7782 (2024). doi:10.1038/s41467-024-52014-0.

  Presenters

  • Hui Deng

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Hui Deng

    • University of Michigan

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• Cavity-controlled symmetry breaking and topological responses in quantum materials

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 18, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Ze-Xun Lin

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Ze-Xun Lin

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Allan MacDonald

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Ceren Dag

    • Harvard University

  • Junyeong Ahn

    • Harvard University

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• One-dimensional extended Hubbard model coupled with an optical cavity

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Publication: T. Nakamoto, K. Takasan, and N. Tsuji, One-dimensional extended Hubbard model coupled with an optical cavity, Phys. Rev. B 112, 155150 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Taiga Nakamoto

    • The University of Tokyo

  Authors

  • Taiga Nakamoto

    • The University of Tokyo

  • Kazuaki Takasan

    • The University of Tokyo

  • Naoto Tsuji

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• Chern insulating phases in a cavity-embedded kagome system

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Publication: H. Goto, R. Okugawa, and T. Tohyama, arXiv:2510.09150.

  Presenters

  • Ryo Okugawa

    • Tokyo University of Science

  Authors

  • Ryo Okugawa

    • Tokyo University of Science

  • Hikaru Goto

  • Takami Tohyama

    • Tokyo Universiy of Science

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• Emergent topological interactions induced by quantized magnetostatic fields

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Publication: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.16264

  Presenters

  • Adel Mohamed Ali

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  Authors

  • Adel Mohamed Ali

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Alexey Belyanin

    • Texas A&M University

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• Permittivity-Driven Photonic Bound States in the Continuum for Ultrafast Optical Resonance Control

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Andreas Tittl

    • LMU Munich

  Authors

  • Andreas Tittl

    • LMU Munich

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• Turning graphene into an anyonic Chern insulator via surface electromagnon vacuum fluctuations

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Emil Vinas Boström

    • Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter

  Authors

  • Emil Vinas Boström

    • Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter

  • Angel Rubio

    • Max Planck Institute for the Structure & Dynamics of Matter

  • Xinle Cheng

  • Dante Kennes

    • RWTH Aachen University

  • Edoardo Baldini

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Frank Gao

    • University of Texas at Austin

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• Dynamics of Preformed Pairs and Transient Optical Conductivity in a Driven Attractive Hubbard Model

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Huanyu Zhang

    • The University of Tokyo

  Authors

  • Huanyu Zhang

    • The University of Tokyo

  • Ke Wang

    • University of Chicago

  • Kathryn Levin

    • University of Chicago

  • Naoto Tsuji

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• Cavity-assisted magnetization switching in a quantum spin-phonon chain

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Publication: https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/88tw-h78r

  Presenters

  • Mohsen Yarmohammadi

    • University of Texas at Dallas

  Authors

  • Mohsen Yarmohammadi

    • University of Texas at Dallas

  • Peter Oppeneer

    • Uppsala University

  • James Freericks

    • Georgetown University

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• OPTICAL CONTROL OF VO₂HETEROSTRUCTURES

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Javier Rodriguez Alvarez

    • University of California, San Diego

  Authors

  • Javier Rodriguez Alvarez

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Álvaro Muñoz-Noval

  • Juan Hofer

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Manuel Abuin

  • Jesus Lopez-Sanchez

  • Beatriz Castillo Lopez de Larrinzar

  • Antonio García-Martín

  • Ivan Schuller

    • University of California, San Diego

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• How doping controls the structure and properties of vanadium dioxide: A direct comparison of nonequilibrium photo-doping with static W-doping.

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 10:48 AM – March 18, 2026, 11:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Bradley Siwick

  Authors

  • Malik Lahlou

    • McGill University

  • david cai

  • wenqiang xiang

  • mohamed chaker

  • Bradley Siwick

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