2017 Fall Physics Colloquium Series: David Snoke, Ph.D.

DateDecember 8, 2017
Time11:00 am - 1:00 pm
LocationBaylor Sciences Building, Room E.234
Description
2017 Fall Physics Colloquium Series


David Snoke, Ph.D.


Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA



Superfluids of Light



It is possible to engineer the properties of photons in an optical medium to have an effective mass and repulsive interactions, so that they act like a gas of atoms. These "renormalized photons" are called polaritons. In the past ten years, several experiments have demonstrated many of the canonical effects of Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity of polaritons. In this talk I will review some of this past work and present recent results, including oscillation of a polariton condensate in a one-dimensional ring trap.



For more information contact: Dr. Zhenrong Zhang 254-710-2419
PublisherDepartment of Physics
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