Workshop on an accelerator based source for nonlinear THz science @ SwissFEL

Monday 3 Oct 2016, 08:00 → 18:01 Europe/Zurich

Campus Brugg Windisch, 5.0B15/16 (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz)

08:00 → 08:50 Welcome Coffee & Registration

08:55 → 09:00 Workshop Opening

Speaker: Urs Staub (Paul Scherrer Institut)

09:00 → 10:30 Session 1: Infrared optics, creation and new opportunities

Convener: Dr Steven Johnson (ETH Zurich)

09:00 Possible THz source based on wakefield generation

Speaker: Dr Simona Bettoni (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides Bettoni_Workshop_Oct_2016.pptx

09:20 THz radiation to study viscosity in electron liquids

Speaker: Dirk van der Marel (University of Geneva)

Slides DvdMarel_3october2016.pptx

09:55 FEL-based nonlinear THz spectroscopy at the ELBE accelarator

Speaker: Alexej Pashkin (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

Slides Pashkin_PSI_workshop_2016.ppt

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Session 2: Static control

Convener: Gabriel Aeppli (Paul Scherrer Institut)

11:00 Interfacial control of magnetism in (111) LaMnO3/LaNiO3 superlattices

Speaker: Prof. Jean-Marc Triscone (University of Geneva)

11:35 Epitaxial Engineering of Ferroic Layers to Create a Room-Temperature Magnetoelectric Multiferroic

Speaker: Darrell Schlom (Cornell University)

12:10 Lattice control of multiferroic properties in RMnO3 orthomanganites

Speaker: Yoav William Windsor

Slides windsor_Thz_2.pptx

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 → 15:00 Session 3: Theory (dynamic and static)

Convener: Andrea Cavalleri (CFEL)

13:30 Density functional theory predictions of new physics enabled by THz FEL sources: Exotic superconductivity, magnetoelectric multipoles and dynamical multiferroicity

Speaker: Dr Michael Fechner (Materials Theory ETH Zurich)

14:05 Theory of light-control of solids and non-linear phononics

Speaker: Antoine Georges (Centre de Physique Théorique – CPHT)

14:40 Novel concepts for narrowband THz excitation of large amplitude lattice motions

Speaker: Alexander Paarmann (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:00 Session 4: Dynamic control at THz frequencies

Convener: Urs Staub (Paul Scherrer Institut)

15:30 Non-linear THz control of solids

Speaker: Andrea Cavalleri (CFEL)

16:05 Potential avenues for THz-induced control of order parameters in solids

Speaker: Dr Steven Johnson (ETH Zurich)

Slides 20161003_THz_Johnson_Steve.pdf

16:40 Nonlinear electron-phonon coupling in doped manganites

Speaker: Vincent Esposito

Slides VEsp_Nonlinear_electron-phonon_coupling_in_manganites.pptx

17:00 → 18:00 Wrap-up and how to proceed

Speaker: Urs Staub (Paul Scherrer Institut)

18:00 → 18:01 End of workshop