Nalitov Seminar

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• What? Topological and Nonlinear effects with polaritons.
• Who? Anton Nalitov (our new condensed-matter Lecturer).
• Where? Wulfruna building (city campus), MA030.
• When? Fri 17 May, 15:00.
• Why? Anton will introduce his research.
• How? The talk is one hour and open to questions, tea & cookies will be provided.

• Chair: Fabrice Laussy

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Abstract: I will talk about liquid light confined between two parallel planar mirrors. Polaritons, the carriers of this liquid light, behave very much like other bosons such as atoms or molecules. Similarly to Shroedinger's cat, they are light and matter at the same time. I will first make an introduction to polaritonics and then cover some recent advances, establishing a connection between polaritonics and another rapidly developing domain in physics - the field of topological insulators. In particular, I will describe a device that works as a unidirectional waveguide for light, which is extremely atypical.

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