2009 Workshop on
Wave Function Engineering & Coherent Control in Nanostructures
February 25-27, 2009 | Los Alamos Research Park, NM
Invited Participants:
Engineering Resonant Properties of Semiconductor and Metallic Nanostructures
Jared Wahlstrand (JILA)
Stephan Haas (U of Southern California)
Sanjay Krishna (U of New Mexico)
Hari Manoharan (Stanford University)
Stephen Rand (U of Michigan)
Photonic Materials
Steve Brueck (U of New Mexico)
Stefano Cabrini (LBNL)
Ildar Gabitov (U of Arizona)
Stephen M. Kuebler (U of Central Florida)
Sergei Tretiak (LANL)
Vladimir Drachev (Perdue U)
Coherent Control in Quantum Systems
Marcos Dantus (Michigan State)
Shawn D. McGrane (LANL)
Margaret Murnane (U of Colorado, Boulder)
Valentin Prokhorenko (U of Toronto)
Alexei Sokolov (Texas AM U)
Andrei Maimistov (MEPI)
Purpose:
The workshop will provide an excellent opportunity for both experimentalists and theoreticians from national labs including LANL and academia to discuss recent results and new ideas in the fast growing multidisciplinary field of coherent control of quantum matter in connection with a wide spectrum of problems such as carrier dynamics in reduced dimensionality, interactions of nano-materials with optical fields, engineering of optical properties in new photonic materials, photovoltaics, electrooptics, nanoelectronics and spintronics. The Workshop will help to create new collaborations and enhance already existing bridges between theoreticians and experimentalists working in the rapidly developing fields of coherent control and wave function design. It is also pointed to advance synergy between these two fields, and to stimulated formation of scientific connections between fundamental and applied research groups at LANL (CNLS, CINT, C-PCS) and Universities (Academia).
- Engineering resonant properties of semiconductor and metallic nanostructures. Both experimental and theoretical studies of the resonant photoexcited processes in semiconductor and metallic nano-materials will be discussed during this session. The focus is the search for optimal geometry, composition, and assembly of semiconductor and/or metallic nanoparticles leading to desired electronic structure, optical and carrier transport properties.
- Photonic materials. During this session experimental and theoretical efforts pointed to design of new photonic metamaterials functioning in the infrared and visible spectral region will be discussed. The focus is optimal design of the negative refractive index materials with minimal losses.
- Coherent control in quantum systems. This session will be focused on experimental and theoretical studies of ultrafast optical control of vibronic (coupled electronic and vibrational) quantum dynamics in condensed phase systems including solvated molecules, biological complexes, and molecular crystals. Discussed applications will include but not limited to dynamical mapping and coherent control of chemical reactions.
Organization:
Organizers:
Ilya Grigorenko (LANL), Anthony J. Levi (USC), Andrei Piryatinski (LANL), Anatoly Efimov (LANL).
Advisory committee:
Alexander Balatsky (LANL), Toni Taylor (LANL), David S. Moore (LANL).
Administrative Contact:
Adam Shipman
conferences@cnls.lanl.gov, 505-664-0187
Schedule
February 25, Wednesday
Photonic materials
Morning Session
Chair: David Moore
8.50 - 9.00 Welcome: Bob Ecke (CNLS) and Toni Taylor (CINT)
9.00 - 9.55 Steve Brueck (U of New Mexico) “Large-Area NanoPhotonics”
9.55 - 10.50 Stephen M. Kuebler (U of Central Florida) "A hybrid top-down/bottom-up route to three-dimensional metallo-dielectric metamaterials"
10.50 - 11.05 Coffee break
11.05 - 12.00 Ildar Gabitov (U of Arizona) “Nonlinear phenomena in nanostructured optical metamaterials”
12.00 - 12.25 Sachit Grover (U of Colorado, Boulder) “Metal-insulator technology: Devices for millimeter-waves to beyond terahertz without semiconductors”
12.25 - 2.30 Lunch
Afternoon Session
Chair: Shawn McGrane
2.30 - 3.25 Stefano Cabrini (LBNL)“Self-Collimation in Quasi Zero-Average-Refractive-Index Photonic Crystal Metamaterial”
3.25 - 3.50 Bridget Kennedy (U of Arizona) “Optical pulse dynamics in gain doped optical metamaterials”
3.50 - 4.15 Shuang Zhang (UC Berkeley) “Optical and Terahertz Metamaterials”
4.15 - 4.35 Coffee break
4.35 - 5.25 Vladimir Drachev (Purdue U) “Plasmonic nanostructures for optical metamaterials and luminescence control”
5.25 - 6.30 Reception Dinner
February 26, Thursday
Resonant properties of semiconductor and metallic nanostructures
Morning Session
Chair: Sergei Tretiak
9.00 - 9.55 Hari Manoharan (Stanford) “Designer Electrons at the Spatial Limit”
9.55 - 10.50 Sanjay Krishna (U of New Mexico) “Heterostructure and Wavefunction Engineering of Nanoscale Quantum Dots and Superlattices”
10.50 - 11.05 Coffee break
11.05 - 12.00 Stephen Rand (U of Michigan) "Coherent magnetization of non-magnetic transparent insulators"
12.00 -12.55 Stephan Haas (U of Southern California) “Designer Nanoplasmonics - Dielectric Response of Nanoclusters”
12.55 - 2.30 Lunch
Afternoon Session
Chair: Alexander Balatsky
2.30 - 3.25 Jared Wahlstrand (JILA) "Electric field-induced optical coherent control of carrier injection in a semiconductor."
3.25 - 3.50 Daniel B. Turner (MIT) “Investigating excitonic correlations in quantum wells using 2D fifth-order spectroscopy”
4.20 - 4.35 Coffee break
4.20 - 5.15 Sergei Tretiak (LANL) “Excited state dynamics in functionalized quantum dots”
5.15 – 6.10 Anthony Levi (USC) “Complexity in the behavior of laser diodes”
February 27, Friday
Coherent control in quantum systems
Morning Session
Chair: Anthony Levi
9.00 - 9.55 Margaret Murnane (U of Colorado, Boulder)“Ultrafast Dynamics in Nanoscale Materials probed by Ultrafast Coherent X-Rays”
9.55 - 10.50 Andrei Maimistov (MEPI) “Completely integrable models of extremely short pulses: New examples”
10.50 - 11.05 Coffee break
11.05 - 12.00 Valentin Prokhorenko (U of Toronto) “Coherently-controlled multidimensional spectroscopy: new horizons”
12.00 - 12.55 Marcos Dantus (Michigan State) "Multiphoton intrapulse interference control for mode selective single-beam CARS"
12.55 -2.30 Lunch
Afternoon Session
Chair: Andrei Piryatinski
2.30 - 3.25 Alexei Sokolov (Texas AM U)“Ultrafast Coherent Raman Techniques for Rapid Identification of Chemical and Biological Unknowns”
3.25 - 3.50 Phil Nagel (LBNL) “Ultrafast spectrometry of plasmon-field accelerated electrons in metal nanostructures”
3.50 - 4.45 Shawn D. McGrane (LANL)“The importance of vibrational control”
4.45 - 4.55 Closing
Participants contact list
Steve Brueck (U of New Mexico), sbrueck@chtm.unm.edu
Stefano Cabrini (LBNL) SCabrini@lbl.gov
Marcos Dantus (Michigan State) dantus@msu.edu
Vladimir Drachev (Purdue U) vdrachev@purdue.edu
Ildar Gabitov (U of Arizona) gabitov@math.arizona.edu
Stephan Haas (U of Southern California) shaas@usc.edu
Bridget Kennedy (U of Arizona) bkennedy@math.arizona.edu
Sanjay Krishna (U of New Mexico) skrishna@chtm.unm.edu
Stephen M. Kuebler (U of Central Florida) kuebler@mail.ucf.edu
Andrei Maimistov (MEPI) amaimistov@gmail.com
Hari Manoharan (Stanford) manoharan@stanford.edu
Shawn D. McGrane (LANL) mcgrane@lanl.gov
Margaret Murnane (U of Colorado, Boulder) murnane@jila.colorado.edu
Phil Nagel (LBNL) PMNagel@lbl.gov
Valentin Prokhorenko (U of Toronto) prokh@lphys.chem.utoronto.ca
Stephen Rand (U of Michigan) scr@eecs.umich.edu
Alexei Sokolov (Texas A&M) sokol@physics.tamu.edu
Sergei Tretiak (LANL) serg@lanl.gov
Daniel B. Turner (MIT) dbt@mit.edu
Jared Wahlstrand (JILA) wahlstrj@jila.colorado.edu
Shuang Zhang (UC Berkley) zhangs@berkeley.edu
Organizers:
Ilya Grigorenko (LANL) ilya@lanl.gov
Anthony J. Levi (USC) alevi@usc.edu
Andrei Piryatinski (LANL) apiryat@lanl.gov
Anatoly Efimov (LANL) efimov@lanl.gov
Advisory committee:
Alexander Balatsky (LANL) avb@lanl.gov
Toni Taylor (LANL) ttaylor@lanl.gov
David S. Moore (LANL) moored@lanl.gov