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Stanford EE

Rectified Quantum Orders

Summary
Alexander Balatsky (Nordita/ UCONN)
McCullough Room 335
Mar
15
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Quantum matter out of equilibrium emerge as an important platform to induce correlations and transient orders. Modern techniques of coherent and fast light sources developed recently enable this evolution. Broad basic questions about orders that emerge dynamic have been addressed in the context of driven cold atoms, spins, magnetism and superconductivity. I will discuss new orders that emerge in quantum matter due to dynamic drive, coherence and entanglement and discuss the concept of rectified quantum orders. I will illustrate with old and new examples of dynamically induced quantum states using induction of magnetism in paraelectrics and topological excitation in coherent electron fluids.

Bio: Alexander Balatsky research focus is on the collective states of quantum matter including superconductivity, superfluidity, Dirac materials and materials informatics. He is a professor of theoretical physics at UCONN and Nordita. A Balatsky received his PhD for his work on superfluid A phase of He3 at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. Prior to joining Nordita he was an Oppenheimer Fellow and the founding director of the Institute for Materials Science, Los Alamos. He is/was a member of the editorial board at Physical Review Materials (APS) and of Advanced Quantum Technologies (Wiley). He is the Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.