Resources

Equipment

• Light Conversion PHAROS

Wavelength: 1030 nm

Pulse energy: up to 2 mJ at 10 kHz

Repetition rate: up to 1 MHz

Pulse duration: 190 fs-10 ps (tunable)

• Light Conversion ORPHEUS

Wavelengths: 640 nm-2600 nm (tunable)

Pulse energy: up to 6 μJ/pulse

Repetition rate: switchable between 10 kHz and 20 kHz

Pulse duration: 120-250 fs

• Montana Instruments CryoAdvance

Base temperature: 3.2-350 K

Nanopositioners: xyz

Sample mount: reflective geometry, 8-pin DIP
Windows: transmissive at VIS/NIR & THz

• RIGI S2x THz camera

• APE scanDelay

Shared facilities and available equipment

• Quantum Glovebox Environment (Q-GLOBE) Clusters
  Cluster 1: TBD
  Cluster 2: TBD

• Electron-beam lithography facility

• Cryogenic spin-, time-, and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)

• Scanning diamond-NV magnetometer

• Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopic mapping

• Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) & physical vapor deposition (PVD)

• Aberration-corrected transmission electron microscope (TEM)

• Focused ion beam (FIB) & scanning electron microscope (SEM)

• In-house cryogen supply

Optics, Electromagnetism, and Spectroscopy

• B. E. A. Saleh and M. C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics (Wiley, 2020)

• D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

• R. W. Boyd, Nonlinear Optics (Academic Press, 2020)

• J.-C. Diels and W. Rudolph, Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena (Academic Press, 2006)

• C. C. Gerry and P. L. Knight, Introductory Quantum Optics (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

• M. Fox, Quantum Optics: An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2006)

• M. Fox, Optical Properties of Solids (Oxford University Press, 2010)

• J. D. Joannopoulos, S. G. Johnson, J. N. Winn, and R. D. Meade, Photonic Crystals: Molding the Flow of Light (Princeton University Press, 2008)

• P. Hamm and M. Zanni, Concepts and Methods of 2D Infrared Spectroscopy (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Quantum Mechanics

• D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

• J. J. Sakurai and J. Napolitano, Modern Quantum Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Solid State Physics

• C. Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics (Wiley, 2004)

• N. W. Ashcroft and N. D. Mermin, Solid State Physics (Cengage, 1976)

• D. W. Snoke, Solid State Physics: Essential Concepts (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

• M. L. Cohen and S. G. Louie, Fundamentals of Condensed Matter Physics (Cambridge University Press, 2016)

• S. M. Girvin and K. Yang, Modern Condensed Matter Physics (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

• E. Kaxiras and J. D. Joannopoulos, Quantum Theory of Materials (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Condensed Matter Physics

• Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Ultrafast optical and THz spectroscopy

• T. Kampfrath et al. Resonant and nonresonant control over matter and light by intense terahertz transients. Nat. Photon. 7, 680 (2013)

• M. Koch et al. Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. Nat. Rev. Methods Primers 3, 48 (2023)

• R. Ulbricht et al. Carrier dynamics in semiconductors studied with time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy. Rev. Mod. Phys. 83, 543 (2011)

• G. Tóth et al. Tilted pulse front pumping techniques for efficient terahertz pulse generation. Light Sci. Appl. 12, 256 (2023)

• C.-J. Yang et al. Terahertz control of many-body dynamics in quantum materials. Nat. Rev. Mater. 8, 518 (2023)

• A. De la Torre et al. Colloquium: Nonthermal pathways to ultrafast control in quantum materials. Rev. Mod. Phys. 93, 041002 (2021)

• J. A. Spies et al. Terahertz spectroscopy of emerging materials. J. Phys. Chem. C 124, 22335 (2020)

• J. Lloyd-Hughes and T.-I. Jeon. A review of the terahertz conductivity of bulk and nano-materials. J. Infrared Milli. Terahz. Waves 33, 871 (2012)

Excitons and light-matter interactions

• G. Wang et al. Colloquium: Excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides. Rev. Mod. Phys. 90, 021001 (2018)

• X. Xu et al. Spin and pseudospins in layered transition metal dichalcogenides. Nat. Phys. 10, 343 (2014)

• K. F. Mak et al. Light–valley interactions in 2D semiconductors. Nat. Photon. 12, 451 (2018)

• E. Paik et al. Excitons and polaritons in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides: a tutorial. Adv. Opt. Photon. 16, 1064 (2024)

• S. Datta and X. Marie. Excitons and excitonic materials. MRS Bulletin 49, 852 (2024)

• D. E. Chang et al. Quantum nonlinear optics—photon by photon. Nat. Photon. 8, 685 (2014)

• G. Khitrova et al. Vacuum Rabi splitting in semiconductors. Nat. Phys. 2, 81 (2006)

• C. Bao et al. Light-induced emergent phenomena in 2D materials and topological materials. Nat. Rev. Phys. 4, 33 (2022)

• A. Liu. Multidimensional terahertz probes of quantum materials. npj Quantum Mater. 10, 18 (2025)

Van der Waals heterostructures and moiré physics

• D. Huang et al. Excitons in semiconductor moiré superlattices. Nat. Nanotechnol. 17, 227 (2022)

• E. C. Regan et al. Emerging exciton physics in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers. Nat. Rev. Mater. 7, 778 (2022)

• K. P. Nuckolls & A. Yazdani. A microscopic perspective on moiré materials. Nat. Rev. Mater. 9, 460 (2024)

• P. A. Panteleón et al. Superconductivity and correlated phases in non-twisted bilayer and trilayer graphene. Nat. Rev. Phys. 5, 304 (2023)

• Q. Ma et al. Photocurrent as a multiphysics diagnostic of quantum materials. Nat. Rev. Phys. 5, 170 (2023)

• R. Somphonsane et al. Advances in 2D material transfer systems for van der Waals heterostructure assembly. Appl. Sci. 15, 6341 (2024)

• Northeastern Quantum Matter Seminars

• Northeastern Quantum Materials and Sensing Institute (QMSI) Special Seminars

• MIT Physics Colloquium Series

• MIT Chez Pierre (Condensed Matter Physics) Seminar Series

• MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA)

• MIT-CQE iQuISE Seminar Series

• Harvard Physics Seminars

• Boston Area Physics Calendar

• Stanford Applied Physics/Physics Colloquium (YouTube)

• Simons Institute Public Lectures