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

Monday Oct 3, 2016, 8:00 AM → 6:01 PM Europe/Zurich

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

8:00 AM → 8:50 AM Welcome Coffee & Registration

8:55 AM → 9:00 AM Workshop Opening

Speaker: Urs Staub (Paul Scherrer Institut)

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Session 1: Infrared optics, creation and new opportunities

Convener: Dr Steven Johnson (ETH Zurich)

9:00 AM Possible THz source based on wakefield generation

Speaker: Dr Simona Bettoni (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides Bettoni_Workshop_Oct_2016.pptx

9:20 AM THz radiation to study viscosity in electron liquids

Speaker: Dirk van der Marel (University of Geneva)

Slides DvdMarel_3october2016.pptx

9:55 AM FEL-based nonlinear THz spectroscopy at the ELBE accelarator

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

Slides Pashkin_PSI_workshop_2016.ppt

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

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

Convener: Gabriel Aeppli (Paul Scherrer Institut)

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

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

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

Speaker: Darrell Schlom (Cornell University)

12:10 PM Lattice control of multiferroic properties in RMnO3 orthomanganites

Speaker: Yoav William Windsor

Slides windsor_Thz_2.pptx

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Session 3: Theory (dynamic and static)

Convener: Andrea Cavalleri (CFEL)

1:30 PM 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)

2:05 PM Theory of light-control of solids and non-linear phononics

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

2:40 PM Novel concepts for narrowband THz excitation of large amplitude lattice motions

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

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM → 5:00 PM Session 4: Dynamic control at THz frequencies

Convener: Urs Staub (Paul Scherrer Institut)

3:30 PM Non-linear THz control of solids

Speaker: Andrea Cavalleri (CFEL)

4:05 PM Potential avenues for THz-induced control of order parameters in solids

Speaker: Dr Steven Johnson (ETH Zurich)

Slides 20161003_THz_Johnson_Steve.pdf

4:40 PM Nonlinear electron-phonon coupling in doped manganites

Speaker: Vincent Esposito

Slides VEsp_Nonlinear_electron-phonon_coupling_in_manganites.pptx

5:00 PM → 6:00 PM Wrap-up and how to proceed

Speaker: Urs Staub (Paul Scherrer Institut)

6:00 PM → 6:01 PM End of workshop