PQE-2019 — Invited and Plenary Talks Monday, January 7, 2019 Monday Morning Plenary Session 1 Location: Ballrooms 1 and 2 — Marlan Scully, Chair 7:30 Jeff Kimble, California Institute of Technology, “Quantum matter built from nanoscopic lattices of atoms and photons” 8:00 Johann Peter Reithmaier, University of Kassel, “Atom-Like Optical Gain Materials for Advanced Optoelectronics” 8:30 Matthew Pelton, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, “Cavity QED Using Single Quantum Dots and Plasmon Resonances” Monday Morning Invited Session 1 Breakout Session 1: Quantum Optics with Arrays of Atoms and Photons. Location: Ballroom 1 — Jeff Kimble, Chair 9:10 Ana Asenjo-Garcia, Columbia University, “Collective dissipation: going beyond two-level atoms” 9:30 Chen-Lung Hung, Purdue University, “Trapping and imaging single atoms on a microring photonic circuit with optical tweezers” 9:50 Alex Burgers, California Institute of Technology, “Engineering Atom-Light Interactions with Pho- tonic Crystal Waveguides” 10:10 Jeff Thompson, Princeton University, “Ytterbium atom arrays in optical tweezers” Breakout Session 2: Quantum Dot Lasers. Location: Magpie A — Johann Peter Reithmaier, Chair 9:10 Yasuhiko Arakawa, The University of Tokyo, “Advances in quantum dot lasers for silicon photonics” 9:30 Gadi Eisenstein, Technion, “Carrier dynamics in InAs/InP quantum dot - tunneling injection gain media” 9:50 John Bowers, University of California Santa Barbara, “Mode-Locked Quantum Dot Lasers Epi- taxially Grown on Si” 10:10 Frederic Grillot, Telecom Paristech, “Quantum dot lasers for next generation optical networks” Breakout Session 3: Plasmon-Exciton Coupling. Location: Magpie B — Matthew Pelton, Chair 9:10 Aaro Väkeväinen, Aalto University, Finland, “Bose-Einstein condensation in a plasmonic lattice” 9:30 Maiken Mikkelsen, Duke University, “Plasmonic nanogap cavities for enhanced fluorescence- based bio sensing” 9:50 David Norris, ETH Zurich, “Defeating the Dark Exciton in Perovskite Nanocrystals” 10:10 Denis Baranov, Chalmers University of Technology, “Effects of strong coupling at the single nanoparticle level” Breakout Session 4: Time-Domain Quantum Electrodynamics. Location: Wasatch A — Denis Seletskiy, Chair 9:10 Jerome Faist, ETH, “Spatial and temporal electric field correlation measurements on a vacuum field state in the THz” 9:30 Bertrand Reulet, Université de Sherbrooke, “From eletronic noise in circuits to broadband quantum radiation” 9:50 Dmitri Horoshko, University of Lille, “Monocycle squeezed states of light” 10:10 Shahaf Asban, University of California, “Ghost microscopy and image enhancement with entan- gled photons” Monday Morning Plenary Session 2 Location: Ballrooms 1 and 2 — Anatoly Svidzinsky, Chair 10:50 Naomi Halas, Rice University, “New Nonlinear Optical Materials and Processes” 11:20 Don Nelson Page, University of Alberta, “Aspects of Time in Physics” Monday Morning Invited Session 2 Breakout Session 1: Quantum Plasmonics. Location: Ballroom 1 — Naomi Halas, Chair 12:00 Prineha Narang, Harvard University, “Excited-State Dynamics and Quantum Photonic Interactions from First Principles” 12:20 Yugang Sun, Temple University, “Quantum-sized metal nanoparticles: Bridging photons and chem- ical transformations” 12:40 Stephen Gray, Argonne National Lab, “Optical Detection and Storage of Entanglement in Plas- monically Coupled Quantum Dot Systems” Breakout Session 2: Physics of Acceleration. Location: Magpie A — Don Nelson Page, Chair 12:00 Stephen A. Fulling, Texas A&M University, “Classical and Quantum Viewpoints on Radiation by an Accelerated Charge” 12:20 Andre Landulfo, Federal University of ABC, “Radiation from a Uniformly Accelerated Charge: Classical and Quantum Aspects and the Surprising Role of Zero-Energy Rindler Modes” 12:40 Guilherme Barbosa Barros, IFT-Unesp, “Traces of the Unruh effect in suface waves” Breakout Session 3: Optics and Plasmonics of 2D and Topological Materials. Location: Magpie B — Alexey Belyanin, Chair 12:00 Stephanie Law, University of Delaware, “Topological insulator thin films as terahertz plasmonic materials” 12:20 Markus Raschke, University of Colorado, “Tip-enhanced strong coupling: broadband room tem- perature cavity nano-optics with single emitter” 12:40 Alexey Belyanin, Texas A&M University, “Bulk and surface polaritons in Weyl semimetals” Breakout Session 4: Quantum Nanophotonics. Location: Wasatch A — Maria Chekhova, Chair 12:00 Andrei Faraon, California Institute of Technology, “Probing single rare earth ions in nano-photonic resonators” 12:20 Alexey Kalachev, Zavoisky Physical-Technical Institute, “Electromagnetically induced trans- parency in isotopically purified rare-earth doped crystals” 12:40 Tobias Kippenberg, EPFL SB IPHYS LPQM, “Quantum feedback of a Nanomechanical Oscillator” Monday Evening Plenary Session Location: Ballrooms 1 and 2 — Olga Kocharovskaya, Chair 19:00 Dawei Wang, Zhejiang University, “Simulating chiral dynamics in quantum optics” 19:30 Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Japan Science and Technology Agency, “Coherent Ising Machine - Optical Neural Network operating at the Quantum Limit -” 20:00 Ralf Röhlsberger, DESY, Hamburg, “Quantum Optics with X-rays: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” Monday Evening Invited Session Breakout Session 1: Topological Phenomena in Quantum Optics. Location: Ballroom 1 — Dawei Wang, Chair 20:50 Bryce Gadway, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Exploring topology, disorder, and interactions with atom optics” 21:10 Edbert Sie, Stanford University, “An Ultrafast Symmetry Switch in a Weyl Semimetal” 21:30 Guoqin Ge, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, “Physics of electromagnetically in- duced chirality and its applications” 21:50 Nicola Piovella, Università degli Studi di Milano, “Spatial Self-Organization of Cold Atoms via Optical Binding” 22:10 Han Cai, Zhejiang University, “Experimental observation of momentum-space chiral edge currents in room-temperature atoms” Breakout Session 2: Coherent Ising machines. Location: Magpie A — Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Chair 20:50 Alireza Marandi, California Institute of Technology, “Networks of Optical Parametric Oscillators: From Ising Machines to Quantum Photonic Engineering” 21:10 Peter McMahon, Stanford University / Cornell University, “Combinatorial optimization using net- works of optical parametric oscillators with measurement feedback” 21:30 Ryan Hamerly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Quantum vs. Optical Annealing: Bench- marking the Coherent Ising Machine and D-Wave 2000Q on NP-hard Ising Problems” 21:50 Takahiro Inagaki, NTT Corporation, “Potts model solver with coherent Ising machine” 22:10 Timothee Leleu, The University of Tokyo, “Correction of amplitude heterogeneity for solving com- binatorial optimization problems efficiently using optoelectronics” Breakout Session 3: X-Ray Quantum Optics. Location: Magpie B — Ralf Röhlsberger, Chair 20:50 Joachim von Zanthier, Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, “X-ray superradiance in free space” 21:10 Henry Chapman, CFEL DESY, “Atomic Imaging of Molecules by Intensity Interferometry of X- ray Fluorescence” 21:30 Tim Salditt, Uni Göttingen - IRP, “X-ray optics on a chip” 21:50 Jörg Evers, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, “Coherent x-ray-optical control of Moessbauer nuclei with zeptosecond timing stability” 22:10 Johann Haber, Stanford University, “The role of core electrons in a hard x-ray nonlinearity” Breakout Session 4: Plasmon-Enabled Processes. Location: Wasatch A — Naomi Halas, Chair 20:50 Teri Odom, Northwestern University, “Coherence of Ultrafast Plasmon Nanolasers” 21:10 Shunping Zhang, Wuhan University, “Nanocavities for Strong Light-Matter Interaction” 21:30 Jen Dionne, Stanford University, “Light- and electron-induced Raman spectroscopy for bacterial identification and sub-cellular molecular mapping” 21:50 Tigran Shahbazyan, Jackson State University, “Spontaneous emission mediated by cooperative energy transfer to a plasmonic antenna” 22:10 Nicolas Large, University of Texas at San Antonio, “Acousto-Plasmonic Interactions in Raman Scattering” Tuesday, January 8, 2019 Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 1 Location: Ballrooms 1 and 2 — Mark Saffman, Chair 7:30 Shinji Matsuo, NTT Corporation, “Electrically driven photonic crystal nanocavity lasers using em- bedded active region” 8:00 Wolfgang Schleich, Ulm University, “Quantum waves and gravity” 8:30 Christopher Monroe, University of Maryland and IonQ, “Quantum Computing and Quantum Sim- ulation with Atoms” Tuesday Morning Invited Session 1 Breakout Session 1: Physics of Semiconductor Nanolasers. Location: Ballroom 1 — Shinji Matsuo, Chair 9:10 Gian Luca Lippi, Université Côte d’Azur, Physics Institute, “From spontaneous emission to lasing: What do we learn from the small scale?” 9:30 Jesper Mork, Technical University of Denmark, “On the quantum-limited intensity noise and linewidth of nanolasers” 9:50 Stephan Reitzenstein, TU Berlin, “Electrically Triggered Emission of Indistinguishable Photons by Resonant Microlaser Excitation” 10:10 Tao Peng, Texas A&M University IQSE, “Higher Order Spectral Line Distribution of the Laser” Breakout Session 2: Quantum waves and gravity 1. Location: Magpie A — Wolfgang Schleich, Chair 9:10 Hansjoerg Dittus, German Aerospace Center, “Quantum Technology Application in Space” 9:30 Hartmut Abele, TU Wien, “qBOUNCE, and an acoustic Ramsey-type Gravity Resonance Spectrometer” 9:50 Yair Margalit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Quantum complementarity of clocks in the context of general relativity” 10:10 Denys Bondar, Tulane University, “Towards quantum