Light-Matter Control of Quantum Materials

  • Light-matter interaction on a 2D material (symbolic picture)

    Light-matter interaction on a 2D material

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  • Effects in cavity quantum materials (symbolic picture)

    Effects in cavity quantum materials

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  • Cavity quantum materials (symbolic picture)

    Cavity quantum materials

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Join us!

If you have been always excited about Hermitian and non-Hermitian operators, you want to deepen your (and our) knowledge on quantum materials in interaction with light (or sometimes without), you are not afraid of computers, and you enjoy to work in an agile international team: make your bachelor, your master or even your PhD thesis in the LMCQM group. Contact Michael for further details.

We are a theoretical condensed matter physics research group having fun at the intersection of non-equilibrium many-body physics, quantum materials, and quantum optics. We also simulate atomistic systems with different levels of approximations, and participate in the development of an open source scientific software package which is used all over the world.

We are part of the Institute of Theoretical Solid-State Physics and the Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science.

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Theories for charge-driven nematicity in kagome metals

F. Grandi, M. A. Sentef, D. M. Kennes,  and R. Thomale

Phys. Rev. B  110, 245138 (2024)

Starting from a low-energy continuum model for the band dispersion of the 2×2 charge-ordered phase of the kagome metals AV3Sb5 (A = K, Rb, Cs), we show that nematicity can develop in this state driven either by…


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Non-adiabatic Couplings in Surface Hopping with Tight Binding Density Functional Theory: The Case of Molecular Motors

G. D. Mirón, C. R. Lien-Medrano, D. Banerjee, M. Monti, B. Aradi, M. A. Sentef, T. A. Niehaus and A. Hassanali

J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2024, 20, 23, 10602–10614

Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics (NAMD) has become an essential computational technique for studying the photophysical relaxation of…


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Toxicity of pesticide cocktails in amphibian larvae: understanding the impact of agricultural activity on aquatic ecosystems in the Salado River basin, Argentina

A. P. C. Boccioni, R. C. Lajmanovich, A. M. Attademo, G. Lener, C. R. Lien-Medrano, M. F. Simoniello, M. R. Repetti and P. M. Peltzer

Drug and Chemical Toxicology, 1–19

Aquatic communities are increasingly exposed to complex mixtures of contaminants, mainly pesticides due to the impact of…


Title figure of the CMD31-workshop

Mini-colloqium on the CMD31

Michael organizes the mini-colloqium MC34 - Nonequilibrium dynamics and control of quantum materials on the CMD31 in Braga, Portugal. Visit the website of the conference for further details and registrations.


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Michael awarded with ERC Consolidator Grant

With the ERC Consolidator Grant, he will receive funding of around two million euros. The funding will benefit the CAVMAT research project he is leading, which focuses on new ways of changing matter through light.

Further details in the university's press release.