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Michael will visit the Pauli Center for Theoretical Studies in Zurich in September and October 2021, including a visit at Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen.

Our review on nonthermal pathways to ultrafast control in quantum materials is online.

The Sentef lab is at the upcoming virtual APS March meeting. Come see us!

• Damian Hofmann, Challenges for simulating quantum spin dynamics in two dimensions by neural network quantum states
• Mona Kalthoff, Dynamical phase transition in an optically driven 2D Heisenberg antiferromagnet
• Tao Yu, Optical Manipulation of Domains in Chiral Topological Superconductors
• Christian Eckhardt, Parquet approach – the most fundamental diagrammatic method?
• Michael Sentef, Quantum to classical crossover of Floquet engineering in correlated quantum systems

Apply for PhD positions in ultrafast science: 25 PhD projects within IMPRS-UFAST.
Deadline: November 15, 2020.

One of the holy-grail questions in condensed matter physics is how superconductivity — the property of many electrons to go into a quantum soup state that can carry electricity without losses — emerges at relatively high temperatures in certain materials, and how these temperatures could be boosted even further. Now a research team at the University of Oxford and the MPSD is reporting in Physical Review Letters that a dynamical version of superconductivity, which is generated by periodically shaking the material, is intimately tied to strong electronic correlations and geometric frustration.

Link to press release
Link to paper

Gabriel has successfully defended his Phd thesis on April 22, 2020, via Zoom videoconference. Congratulations, Gabriel!

Michael is a co-organizer of a minicolloquium on “Magnetism and Correlations in 2D Materials in and out of Equilibrium” at CMD2020GEFES in Madrid, August 31 – September 4, 2020. Featuring invited talks by Efrén Navarro-Moratalla, James McIver, Dante Kennes, and Ralph Ernstorfer.

The IMPRS-UFAST is looking for bright young minds willing to dive into research on ultrafast dynamics and imaging of matter. Application deadline is December 2nd, 2019.

For the Sentef group we are specifically looking for candidates in two areas of research:

• Cavity-to-Floquet crossover in quantum materials
• Floquet twistronics in 2D materials

If you are interested and would like to learn more, please do not hesitate to contact Michael.

UXSS 2019 summer school photo taken by Jörg Harms @ CFEL

Our paper is out in Nature Physics! Congratulations to Martin Claassen and everyone else for this very nice, potentially groundbreaking work!

Click here for the News and Views “Twisting superconductors with light” by Ivar Martin at Nature Physics. And here for the press release.