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Low Energy Electrodynamics in Solids June 28 - July 8, 2021 Table of Contents LEES 2021 International Conference on Low Energy Electrodynamics in Solids June 28 - July 8, 2021 Table of Contents Code of Conduct ................................................................................................................................. 3 Support Organizations ......................................................................................................................4-6 Program................................................................................................................................................7 Abstracts ............................................................................................................................................ 15 • Monday, June 28 .......................................................................................................................... 15 • Tuesday, June 29 .......................................................................................................................... 22 • Wednesday, June 30 .................................................................................................................... 30 • Thursday, July 1 ............................................................................................................................ 36 • Monday, July 5 ............................................................................................................................. 42 • Tuesday, July 6.............................................................................................................................. 50 • Wednesday, July 7 ........................................................................................................................ 57 • Thursday, July 8 ............................................................................................................................ 64 2 Code of Conduct The organizers of the LEES 2020 conference are fully committed to it being an inclusive event, and as organizers we will do everything in our power to make it a safe, productive, and welcoming space to all attendees. All participants, including , but not limited to, attendees, speakers, volunteers, exhibitors, -fac ulty, staff, students, service providers, and others are expected to abide by the LEES code of Conduct. The mission of the LEES conference is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary research on low energy electrodynamics in solids and in exotic condensed phases. The discussions generated may arouse debate and strong disagreements may occur. Our goal is to encourage the discussion while maintaining respect for others. All participants are expected to: • Treat each other with respect • Communicate openly with respect, critiquing ideas rather then individuals • Alert LEES organizers or staff if you see a dangerous situation or someone in distress Unacceptable behavior includes but is not limited to: • Harassment, intimidation, or discrimination of anyone in any form • Verbal abuse in any form • Unwelcome sexual advances or comments • Intimidating or hostile comments or conduct Consequences: Anyone requested to stop unacceptable behavior is expected to comply immediately. LEES staff (or their designee) or security/local police may take any action deemed necessary and appropriate, including im- mediate removal from the meeting without warning or refund. All unacceptable behavior should be reported to the conference chair (Kenneth S. Burch), Staff, (Andrea Wherry) or members of the local organizing committee. Incidents may be reported via email or via the chat function in zoom. 3 Supported By Thank you to the companies and organizations that have made LEES possible. 4 Supported By TeraHertz Modern Quality Control and Failure Analysis Quality Control Confirm the identity and quality of both raw materials as well as finished products. Also offers the possibility of examining coatings and layer thicknesses. Failure Analysis Determine the chemical reason behind product failure: Identify contaminations and detect wrong compositions. Surface Analysis Check technical cleanliness and analyze microscopic contaminants. Identify inclusions and pollutants to draw conclusions about the causes of failure. Reverse Engineering Investigate competitor´s products and obtain valuable information about the materials used. Contact us for more details: www.bruker.com/optics Spectroscopy Innovation with Integrity 5 Supported By GigaHertz MegaHertz 6 Program - Monday, June 28 *All times on the Program are Eastern Standard Time Novel Magnets Chair: Kamaras Katalin 10:00 AM Evan Constable Vibronic processes in the quantum spin ice candidate Tb2Ti2O7 10:30 AM Rolando Valdes Aguilar Magnetic dynamics of honeycomb antiferromagnets 11:00 AM Natalia Drichko Time reversal and lattice symmetry breaking in Nd2Ir2O7 observed by Raman scattering spectroscopy 11:20 AM Itzik Kapon Magnetic field tuning of the valley population in the Weyl semi-metal phase of Nd$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$ 11:40 AM Break 12:30 PM Poster Session 1 Berend Zwartsenberg Spin-orbit coupling effects in Sr2IrO4 Carina Belvin Revealing the soft electronic modes involved in magnetite’s Verwey transition Giorgio Sangiovanni Design and realization of topological Dirac fermions on a triangular lattice Kirill Amelin Experimental observation of E8 particles in Ising-chain compounds Martin Dressel Dielectric Catastrophe at the Mott Transition Nimi Bachar Unconventional free charge in the correlated Weyl semimetal Nd2Ir2O7 Severino Adler From Mott to Dirac Fermions via Van der Waals Stacking Shiming Lei Magnetic skyrmions in non-Gd based centrosymmetric magnet Valentina Brosco Rashba-metal to Mott-insulator transition - spectral signatures Wibke Bronsch Time- and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Study on Bulk VSe2 Yuanyuan Xu Importance of dynamic lattice effects for crystal field excitations in quantum spin ice candidate Pr2Zr2O7 2:00 PM Long Break New Results in Mott Systems Chair: Dmitri Basov 7:00 PM Jie Shan Electrons in 2D semiconductor moiré superlattices 7:30 PM Yiping Wang Modulation Doping via a 2D Crystalline Acceptor 8:00 PM Masahiro Sato Nonlinear Optical Responses in Quantum Spin Liquids 8:20 PM Shuqiu Wang Scattering Interference Signature of a Pair Density Wave State in the Cuprate Pseudogap Phase 8:40 PM Break 7 Tuesday, June 29 Novel Optics in 2D Materials Chair: Marc Scheffler 10:00 AM Ingrid Barcelos Probing Polaritons in 2D Materials with Synchrotron Infrared Nanospectroscopy 10:30 AM Hanan Herzig Sheinfux Bound in the continuum modes in indirectly-patterned hyperbolic media 11:00 AM Jeremy Levy Gate-Tunable Optical Nonlinearities and Extinction in Graphene/LaAlO3/ SrTiO3 Nanostructures 11:30 AM Alexey Kuzmenko Infrared nanoscopy of polaritons in functional oxides and interfaces 11:50 AM Break 12:30 PM Poster Session 2 Amalia Coldea Anomalous magnetotransport of the nematic FeSe and related chalcogenides Claudio Giannetti Non-thermal metallic phase emerging from nanoscale complexity in a photo-excited Mott material Daniele Nicoletti Radiating Stripes Ivan Fotev Ultrafast Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of BaFe2As2 under High Pressures Jean-Côme Philippe Orbital dichotomy of Fermi liquid properties in Sr2RuO4 probed by Raman spectroscopy Jonathan B. Curtis Spectroscopic signatures of time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity Marco Marciani Resistivity anisotropy in nematic FeSe from multiorbital Boltzmann equation Michele Buzzi Photo-molecular high temperature superconductivity Min-Cheol Lee Ultrafast strain modulation of superconductivity in cuprate heterostructures Roberta Citro Topological superconductivity by orbital confinement in oxide nanowires 2:00 PM Long Break Unconventional Superconductivity 1 Chair: Setsuko Tajima 7:00 PM Johnpierre Paglione Exotic superconductivity in nearly ferromagnetic UTe2 7:30 PM Peter D. Johnson Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking in the FeTe1-xSex family of high Tc superconductors 8:00 PM Ryan Day The Three-Dimensional Electronic Structure of LiFeAs: Strong-coupling Superconductivity and Topology in the Iron Pnictides 8:20 PM Masamichi Nakajima Effects of electronic correlations and nematicity in FeSe1-xTex studied by optical spectroscopy 8:40 PM Break 8 Wednesday, June 30 Optics in Quantum Matter 1 Chair: Andrea Perucchi 10:30 AM Tommaso Cea Plasmons, phonons and superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene 11:00 AM Milan Orlita Suppressed Auger scattering and tunable light emission of Landau- quantized massless Kane electrons 11:20 AM Prineha Narang Predicting Correlated Light-Matter Interactions 11:50 AM Méasson Marie-Aude Collective mode of the Hidden Order State in URu2Si2: Degeneracy and Symmetry 12:10 PM Long Break Magnetic Topological Systems Chair: N. Peter Armitage 7:00 PM Ilya Sochnikov Microscopy of tunable magnetic domains in noncentrosymmetric ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal 7:30 PM Shingo Toyoda Nonreciprocal second harmonic generation in a magnetoelectric CuB2O4 7:50 PM Changyoung Kim Sign-tunable anomalous Hall effect induced by two-dimensional symmetry- protected nodal structures in ferromagnetic perovskite oxide thin films 8:20 PM Artem Strashko Crescent states in charge-imbalanced polariton condensates 8:40 PM Break 9:00 PM Poster Session 3 Changmin Lee Observation of a phase transition within the domain walls of the magnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2 Gael Grissonnanche T-linear resistivity from an isotropic Planckian scattering rate Jae Hoon Kim Terahertz Electrodynamics of Superconducting Nb Films in External Magnetic Field Kazuya Shinjo Effect of phase string on single-hole
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