1st Workshop on Molecular Quantum Technology
December 16 – 20, Puerto Natales, Chile
MQT 2019 Program
Monday, Dec. 16
- 18:00 – 19:00: Informal reception at The Singular Patagonia
Tuesday, Dec. 17
- 09:00 – 09:20 : Workshop opening.
- 09:20 – 10:00 : Sandrine Heutz, Imperial College London, “Engineering Molecular Materials for Quantum Applications“.
- 10:00 – 10:40 : Coffee Break
- 10:40 – 11:20 : Edward Laird, Lancaster University, “Molecular Clocks and Single-Electron Oscillators Transitions: Measuring Time and Motion in Carbon Nanostructures“.
- 11:20 – 12:00 : Chung-Jui Yu, Northwestern University, “A Molecular Approach to Quantum Information Science“.
- 12:00 – 12:20 : Daniel Aravena, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, “A First Principles Model for Tunneling Demagnetization in Single-Molecule Magnets“.
- 12:20 – 14:00 : Lunch Break
- 14:00 – 14:20 : Gustavo Lima, Universidad de Concepción, “Multi-port Beamsplitters based on Multi-Core Optical Fibers for High-Dimensional Device-Independent Quantum Information Processing“.
- 14:20 – 15:00 : Juan José García-Ripoll, Institute for Fundamental Physics IFF-CSIC, “Qubit-Photon Corner States and Other Ultrastrong Coupling Physics“.
- 15:00 – 15:40 : Coffee Break
- 15:40 – 16:20 : Shaul Mukamel, University of California Irvine, “Ultrafast Multidimensional Spectroscopy and Imaging of Molecules with X-Ray, Quantum, and Noisy Light“.
- 16:20 – 17:00 : Leonardo Pachón, Universidad de Antioquia, “Classical Mimicking of Quantum Cavity Chemistry Electrodynamics“.
Wednesday, Dec. 18
- 08:20 – 09:00 : Eric Bittner, University of Houston, “Probing Many-Body Interactions with Entangled Photons“.
- 09:00 – 09:40 : Markus Raschke, JILA-University of Colorado Boulder, “Tip-Enhanced Strong Coupling: Broadband Room Temperature Nano-Cavity QED with Single Emitters“.
- 09:40 – 10:00 : Jeffrey Owrutsky, US Naval Research Laboratory, “Vibration-Cavity Polariton Dynamics“.
- 10:00 – 10:40 : Coffee Break
- 10:40 – 11:20 : Blake Simpkins, US Naval Research Laboratory, “Strong Vibrational Coupling for Chemical Control and Optical Modulation“.
- 11:20 – 12:00 : Javier Aizpurua, Center for Materials Physics CSIC-UPV-EHU, “Addressing Atomic-Scale Resolution and Nonlinear Effects in Plasmon-Enhanced Molecular Spectroscopy“.
- 12:00 – 12:20 : Johan Triana, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, “Permanent Dipoles Drive the Dynamics of Anharmonic Vibrational Polaritons: A Numerically Exact Approach“.
- 12:20 – 14:00 : Lunch Break
- 14:00 – 14:40 : Andrew Musser, Cornell University, “Manipulating Molecules with Strong Light-Matter Coupling“.
- 14:40 – 15:00 : Florian Le Roux, University of Oxford, “Tuning Coincident Ultrastrong- and Strong-Coupling Interactions via Molecular Geometry Control in Polymer Microcavities“.
- 15:00 – 15:40 : Coffee Break
- 15:40 – 17:00 : MQT Poster Session (Open Bar ends at 18:40)
Thursday, Dec. 19
- 08:20 – 09:00 : Kyle Matsuda, JILA-University of Colorado Boulder, “A Degenerate Fermi Gas of Polar Molecules“.
- 09:00 – 09:20 : Jeremy Young, JQI-University of Maryland, “Quantum Many-Body Gates, Fast State Transfer, and Nondestructive Cooling Using Dipole-Dipole Interactions”.
- 09:20 – 09:40 : Victor Albert, IQIM–California Institute of Technology, “Robust Encoding of a Qubit in a Molecule“.
- 09:40 – 10:00 : David Wellnitz, University of Strasbourg-CNRS, “Molecular Formation in a Cavity Using Collective and Dissipative Effects“.
- 10:20 – 10:40 : Coffee Break – WORKSHOP PICTURE
- 10:40 – 11:00 : Philipp Schindler, University of Innsbruck, “Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy with Single Molecular Ions“.
- 11:00 – 11:20 : Vanessa Olaya, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, “Long-Range Interaction between Rydberg Atoms and Polar Diatomic Molecules“.
- 11:20 – 11:40 : Giacomo Bighin, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, “Far-From-Equilibrium Dynamics of Molecules in 4He Nanodroplets: a Quasiparticle Perspective“.
- 11:40 – 12:00 : Johannes Schachenmayer, University of Strasbourg-CNRS, “The Fate of Anderson Localization Under Strong Coupling“.
- 12:00 – 12:20 : Jorge Campos-Gonzalez-Angulo, University of California San Diego, “Catalytic Effects of Vibrational Polaritons in Electron Transfer“.
- 12:20 – 14:00 : Lunch Break
- 14:00 – 14:20 : Special Seminar – Sonia Wolff, Office of Naval Research Global, “Introduction to the Office of Naval Research Global Worldwide and its Funding Opportunities“.
- 14:20 – 15:00 : K. Birgitta Whaley, University of California Berkeley, “Understanding the Quantum Efficiency of Light Harvesting Photosynthetic Systems One Photon at a Time“.
- 15:00 – 15:40 : Coffee Break
- 15:40 – 16:20 : Regina deVivie-Riedle, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, “Photostability of Uracil Affected by Shaped Light“.
- 16:20 – 17:00 : Francis Spano, Temple University, “The Prospects of Exciton Band Shape Engineering in Organic Materials: Perylene Diimide-Based Hj- and hJ-Aggregates“.
- 18:00 CONFERENCE DINNER, The Singular Restaurant
Friday, Dec. 20
- 08:40 – 09:20 : Chris Giebink, Penn State University, “Charged Polaritons in Organic Semiconductors“.
- 09:20 – 10:00 : Stephane Kena-Cohen, Polytechnique Montreal, “Manipulating Light and Matter using Strong Light-Matter Coupling“.
- 10:00 – 10:40 : Tomasz J. Antosiewicz, University of Warsaw, “Strong Plasmon-Molecule Coupling on Nanoscale Revealed by First-Principles Modeling“.
- 10:40 – 10:50 : Workshop Closing
- 10:50 – 11:30 : Coffee Break
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