Group meetings on Fridays 11:00-12:00

Here’s the timetable of the talks for the current term.

​Also, there are weekly condensed matter seminars at 3pm on Fridays, which will be interesting for anyone attending our group meetings.  More information about these is coming soon.

Week	Presenter	Talk	Venue
1 14th Oct	Edward McCann	Even-odd interaction effect in multilayer graphene Related articles: Article 1 Article 2	Bowland North ​SR10
2 21st Oct	Emiliano Cancellieri	Full Stark Control of Spin-Orbit Coupled Polariton States and accumulation of Berry Phase​ Abstract below	Bowland North SR10
3-6 28th Oct – 18th Nov	–	No talks	–
7 25th Nov	Neil Drummond	Atomic and electronic structure of solid hydrogen at multi-megabar pressures	Bowland North SR10
8 2nd Dec	Marcin Szyniszewski	Introduction to tensor networks Download File	Bowland North SR10
9 9th Dec	Henning ​Schomerus	Many-body localization characterized from a one-particle perspective	Frankland Colloquium
10 16th Dec	Ryan ​Hunt	Quantum Monte Carlo studies of energy gaps in semiconductors Download File	Frankland Colloquium

Abstracts

Emiliano Cancellieri – Full Stark Control of Spin-Orbit Coupled Polariton States and accumulation of Berry Phase
​The orbital angular momentum and the polarisation of light are physical quantities widely investigated for classical and quantum information processing. In this work we propose to take advantage of strong light-matter coupling, circular-symmetric confinement, and transverse-electric transverse-magnetic splitting to exploit states where these two degrees of freedom are combined. By considering, as an example, the case of semiconductor polariton systems, we first demonstrate full ultrafast Stark control of spin-orbit coupled states, and then demonstrate the accumulation of Berry phase during a manipulation along a closed path in the parameters space.