Carusotto, Iacopo

Date: Thursday, March 10, 2016
Time: 16:45 (coffee & tea at 16:15)
Place: ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HPV G 5
Host: Atac Imamoglu

QSIT Colloquium

An overview of Quantum Fluids of Light: first successes and many exciting perspectives

Iacopo Carusotto
University of Trento, Italy

I will begin with an introduction to the basic concept of quantum fluid of light when a many photon beam propagating in a nonlinear medium start displaying a collective behaviour as a fluid of many interacting particles.
After reviewing the key experiments demonstrating Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity properties in such fluids, I will present some among the most exciting new directions of theoretical and experimental research in this field, namely quantum hydrodynamics in acoustic black hole configurations, quantum magnetism and synthetic dimensions for light, and conservative quantum dynamics in paraxial propagation.