IPS Meeting 2018 - Institute of Physics Singapore

Technical Sessions

Talks here are listed according their submission numbers; time allocated for invited talks is 15 min speaking time, plus 5 min Q&A, and time allocated for contributed talks in 12 min speaking time plus 3 minutes Q&A.

T1: Terahertz physics

Wednesday, 7 Mar, 11:30am - Venue: LT2; Chair: Marco Battiato

10 11:30am-11:45am	*Subhaskar Mandal, Timothy Liew, Oleg Kibis**: Semiconductor quantum well irradiated by a two-mode electromagnetic field as a terahertz emitter
91 11:45am -12:00pm	*Longqing Cong, Yogesh Srivastava, Ranjan Singh**: All-optical active THz metasurfaces for ultrafast polarization switching and dynamic beam splitting
141 12:00pm -12:15pm	Yogesh Kumar Srivastava, Manukumara Manjappa, Harish Natarajan Swaha Krishnamoorthy, Ranjan Singh*: Dual Channel Ultrafast Superconductor Metaswitch
148 12:15pm -12:30pm	Abhishek Kumar, Yogesh Kumar Srivastava, Manukumara Manjappa, Ranjan Singh*: Color sensitive ultrafast optical modulation and switching of terahertz plasmonic devices

T2: Post deadline session

Wednesday, 7 Mar, 11:30am - Venue: LT3; Chair: Koh Wee Shing

155 11:30am-11:45am	Tingting Yin, Jiaxu Yan, Zexiang Shen*: Towards Understanding and Engineering the Properties of Perovskites by High Pressure
157 11:45am -12:00pm	*Xinxing Sun, Martin Ehrhardt, Andriy Lotnyk, Jürgen W. Gerlach, Bernd Rauschenbach*: Realization of multi-level states in phase-change thin films by very short laser pulse irradiation

TC: Commercial session

Wednesday, 7 Mar, 12:00pm - Venue: LT3; Chair: Koh Wee Shing

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Markus Lundwall*, Susanna Eriksson*: Recent advances in ARPES & HAXPES Photoelectron spectroscopy

T3: Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Wednesday, 7 Mar, 11:30am - Venue: LT4; Chair: Robert E. Simpson

26 (INVITED) 11:30am-11:50am	Youming Zhang, Baile Zhang: Photonic doping of epsilon-near-zero media and its extension
63 11:50am -12:05pm	*Guanghui Yuan, Nikolay I. Zheludev**: Metamaterial Super-oscillatory Lens
104 12:05pm -12:20pm	Muhammad Avicenna Naradipa, Paolo Emilio Trevisanutto, Teguh Citra Asmara, Muhammad Aziz Majidi, Andrivo Rusydi*: Unconventional Plasmons in Cuprates: First Principle Calculations
138 12:20pm -12:35pm	Manoj Gupta, Yogesh Kumar Srivastava, Ranjan Singh*: Active Switching of Toroidal Resonances in Planar Metasurface

T4: Perovskites

Wednesday, 7 Mar, 11:30am - Venue: LT5; Chair: Guglielmo Lanzani

107 11:30am-11:45am	Gaia Bondelli, Francesco Maddalena, Cesare Soci, Paolo Grilli, Guglielmo Lanzani*: Small Molecule and Hybrid Perovskites Light Harvesting Capacitors
17 11:45am -12:00pm	Jun Xing, Jun Xing: Highly efficient colloidal lead-halide perovskite nanocrystal light-emitting diodes
127 12:00pm -12:15pm	Bhumika Chaudhary, Teck Ming Koh, Benny Febriansyah, Annalisa Bruno, Nripan Mathews, Subodh Mhaisalkar, Cesare Soci: Thermally Stable and Efficient Mixed Dimensional Methyl and Naphthalenemethylammonium based Perovskite Solar Cells
122 12:15pm -12:30pm	*Annalisa Bruno, Guifang Han, Wang Hao, Francesco Maddalena, Subodh Mhaisalkar, Cesare Soci**: Inhibited Ionic Motion in Mixed-Cation Solar Cells

T5: Physics in 2D materials

Wednesday, 7 Mar, 1:30pm - Venue: LT2; Chair: Yang Shengyuan

59 (INVITED) 1:30pm-01:50pm	Maxim Trushin*: Theory of photoexcited and thermionic emission across a two-dimensional graphene-semiconductor Schottky junction
98 (INVITED) 01:50pm -02:10pm	Yanpeng Liu*: Giant Magnetoresistance in Graphene/Black Phosphorous Heterostructures
145 02:10pm -02:25pm	Andres Granados Del Aguila, Sean Krupp, Sheng Liu, Zhuangchai Lai, Thu Ha Tran, Hua Zhang, Qihua Xiong: Optical Properties of Excitons in MoS₂ Semiconductor Colloidal Nanocrystals
90 02:25pm -02:40pm	Zhonghan Cao, Jens Martin*: A New Ohmic Contacting Metal to MoS₂ at Low Temperature
46 02:40pm -02:55pm	Jing Jiang, Xiao Lin, Baile Zhang*: Broadband negative refraction of highly squeezed hyperbolic graphene plasmons

T6: Quantum Information

Wednesday, 7 Mar, 1:30pm - Venue: LT3; Chair: Tomek Paterek

50 (INVITED) 1:30pm-01:50pm	*Felix Binder, Jayne Thompson, Mile Gu**: Simulating complex stochastic processes on a quantum computer
78 01:50pm -02:05pm	*Lijiong Shen, Jianwei Lee, Thinh Le Phuc, Jean-Daniel Bancal, Alessandro Cerè, Valerio Scarani, Christian Kurtsiefer**: Randomness extraction from Bell violation with continuous parametric down-conversion source
62 02:05pm -02:20pm	*Yingkai Ouyang, Si-Hui Tan, Liming Zhao, Joseph Fitzsimons**: Computing on quantum shared secrets
23 02:20pm -02:35pm	*Liu Qing, Andrew Garner, Mile Gu, Jayne Thompson, Vlatko Vedral**: Provably unbounded memory advantage in stochastic simulation using quantum mechanics
22 02:35pm -02:50pm	*Alex Wozniakowski, Arthur Jaffe, Zhengwei Liu**: Charged string encodings of quantum information

T7: Biophysics

Wednesday, 7 Mar, 1:30pm - Venue: LT4; Chair: Massimo Pica Ciamarra

27 (INVITED) 1:30pm-01:50pm	Guglielmo Lanzani*: The Photophysics of Geneless Opto Stimulation
137 01:50pm -02:05pm	*Tanjung Krisnanda, Chiara Marletto, Vlatko Vedral, Mauro Paternostro, Tomasz Paterek**: Probing quantum features of photosynthetic organisms
101 02:05pm -02:20pm	Yi Xu, Chang-Yu Hsieh, Lin Wu, Lay-Kee Ang: Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides based long range surface plasmon resonance biosensors
67 02:20pm -02:35pm	Yanwei Li, Massimo Pica Ciamarra: Two-dimensional melting of deformable particles in a model of biological tissues
66 02:35pm -02:50pm	Pin Nie, Massimo Pica Ciamarra*: A numerical study of the role of reproduction and mobility in bacteria colony expansion
65 02:50pm -03:05pm	Hao Hu, Pablo Sampedro Ruiz, Ran Ni*: Entropy Stabilizes Floppy Crystals of Mobile DNA-Coated Colloids

T9: Magnetism and Spintronics

Wednesday, 7 Mar, 3:30pm - Venue: LT2; Chair: Jens Martin

92 (INVITED) 3:30pm-03:50pm	*Rohit Medwal, Surbhi Gupta, S Annapoorni, Y Fukuma, Rajdeep Rawat**: Magnetic-anisotropy-field modulation by spin pumping in FeNi/Cu/FePt trilayers
126 (INVITED) 03:50pm -04:10pm	Marco Battiato*: Towards THz spintronics: generation and transport of subpicosecond spin current pulses
8 04:10pm -04:25pm	*Hao Chen, Pinjia Zhou, Jens Martin, Fanrong Lin**: Valley polarizer and valley analyzer in bilayer graphene
99 04:25pm -04:40pm	Yingkai Ouyang*: The spectrum of the Heisenberg ferromagnet from geometric considerations
143 04:40pm -04:55pm	Funan Tan, Wei Liang Gan, Calvin Ang, Wen Siang Lew: Domain wall motion driven by voltage controlled magnetic anisotropy effect

T10: Quantum Optics

Wednesday, 7 Mar, 3:30pm - Venue: LT3; Chair: Valerio Scarani

2 (INVITED) 3:30pm-03:50pm	*Yue Sum Chin, Matthias Steiner, Christian Kurtsiefer**: Strong photon-atom coupling with 4Pi microscopy
70 (INVITED) 03:50pm -04:10pm	Stella Seah, Stefan Nimmrichter, Valerio Scarani*: Quantum Absorption Refrigerator at Strong Coupling
58 04:10pm -04:25pm	*Yink Loong Len, Jibo Dai, Berge Englert, Leonid Krivitsky*: Unambiguous path discrimination in a two-path interferometer
103 04:25pm -04:40pm	*Marek Miller, Ray Ganardi, Tomasz Paterek, Margherita Zuppardo*: Entanglement gain via measurements with unknown results
45 04:40pm -04:55pm	Thomas Elliott, Mile Gu: Superior memory efficiency of quantum devices for the simulation of continuous-time stochastic processes

T11: Complexity and Statistical Physics

Wednesday, 7 Mar, 3:30pm - Venue: LT4; Chair: TBD

64 (INVITED) 3:30pm-03:50pm	Gerasimos Palaiopanos, Ioannis Panageas, Georgios Piliouras*: Multiplicative Weights Update with Constant Step-Size in Congestion Games: Convergence, Limit Cycles and Chaos
33 (INVITED) 03:50pm -04:10pm	Chengran Yang, Felix Binder, Varun Narasimhachar, Mile Gu: Matrix product state methods for inferring simple predictive models of complex stochastic processes
18 04:10pm -04:25pm	Sudhir Narayan Pathak*: Force percolation transition of jammed granular systems
86 04:25pm -04:40pm	*Joyjit Chattoraj, Massimo Pica Ciamarra**: Effect of barrier steepness on glassy dynamics
42 04:40pm -04:55pm	*Thiparat Chotibut, Tushar Vaidya, Georgios Piliouras**: Correlated Opinion Dynamics in a Model of Observational Learning with Expert Advice

T12: Photonic Crystals

Wednesday, 7 Mar, 1:30pm - Venue: LT5; Chair: TBD

123 (INVITED) 1:30pm-01:50pm	Yin Yin*: Optoplasmonic whispering-gallery-mode microtube cavities
31 01:50pm -02:05pm	Xin Zhou, Daniel Leykam, Alexander Khanikaev, Yidong Chong: Near-zero index magneto-optical medium realized with an unpaired Dirac point
25 02:05pm -02:20pm	Xiao Lin, Baile Zhang: Transition radiation from 2D materials and photonic crystals
44 02:20pm -02:35pm	*Tian Feng See, Dimitris Angelakis**: Multi-photon transport in nonlinear photonic lattices
30 02:35pm -02:50pm	Zhen Gao, Baile Zhang*: Surface-wave band-gap crystal
52 02:50pm -03:05pm	*Qunli Lei, Ran Ni, Yuqiang Ma**: Self-Assembled Chiral Photonic Crystals From Colloidal Helices Racemate

T13: Topological effects 1

Thursday, 8 Mar, 1:30pm - Venue: LT2; Chair: Cesare Soci

1 (INVITED) 1:30pm-01:50pm	*Han Hoe Yap, Longwen Zhou, Ching Hua Lee, Jiangbin Gong**: Photoinduced 1/2 e²/h and 3/2 e²/h conductance plateaus in topological insulator-superconductor heterostructures
94 01:50pm -02:05pm	Xiaoming Zhang, Shengyuan Yang*: Coexistence of four-band nodal rings and triply degenerate nodal points in centrosymmetric metal diborides
48 02:05pm -02:20pm	Yahui Yang, Zhaoju Yang, Baile Zhang*: Strain-induced Landau Levels in an Acoustic System
47 02:20pm -02:35pm	*Fei Gao, Haoran Xue, Zhaoju Yang, Kueifu Lai, Yang Yu, Xiao Lin, Yidong Chong, Gennady Shvets, Baile Zhang**: Topologically protected refraction of robust kink states in valley photonic crystals
120 02:35pm -02:50pm	Chee Kwan Gan*: Linear coefficients of thermal expansion of antimony sulfide and molybdenum disulfide using a Gruneisen approach

T14: Atomic Physics

Thursday, 8 Mar, 1:30pm - Venue: LT3; Chair: LAN Shau-Yu

131 (INVITED) 1:30pm-01:50pm	*Travis Nicholson, Jeff Thompson, Qi-Yu Liang, Sergio Cantu, Aditya Venkatramani, Soonwon Choi, Daniel Viscor, Thomas Pohl, Mikhail Lukin, Vladan Vuletic**: Symmetry-protected collisions between strongly interacting photons
73 01:50pm -02:05pm	Mingjie Xin, Wui Seng Leong, Zilong Chen, Shau-Yu Lan: Coherence Properties and Quantum State Transportation of Rubidium Atoms inside an Optical Waveguide
109 (INVITED) 02:05pm -02:25pm	Rattakorn Kaewuam, Kyle Arnold, Tan Ting Rei, Murray Barrett: Differential polarizabilities and the blackbody radiation shift in a ¹⁷⁶Lu⁺ optical atomic clock
82 02:25pm -02:40pm	Eng Aik Chan, Syed Abdullah Aljunid, Giorgio Adamo, Nikolay Zheludev, Martial Ducloy, David Wilkowski*: A dipole forbidden atomic transition close to surfaces
76 02:40pm -02:55pm	*Thibault Vogt, Christian Gross, Wenhui Li**: Coherent and efficient microwave-to-optical conversion via six-wave mixing in Rydberg atoms

T15: Spectroscopy

Thursday, 8 Mar, 1:30pm - Venue: LT4; Chair: Timothy Liew

154 (INVITED) 1:30pm-01:50pm	*Alexander M. Dubrovkin, Bo Qiang, Harish N. S. Krishnamoorthy, Nikolay I. Zheludev, Qi Jie Wang**: Highly-confined and tunable surface phonon polaritons in few-nm thin semiconductors
9 01:50pm -02:05pm	*Rimi Banerjee, Timothy Liew, Oleksandr Kyriienko**: Realization of Hofstadter’s butterfly and one-way edge mode in polaritonic system
132 02:05pm -02:20pm	T. Thu-Ha Do, Andres Granados Del Aguila, Chao Cui, Jun Xing, Zhijun Ning, Qihua Xiong: Intrinsic Excitonic Properties of High-Quality Lead Halide Perovskite Crystals
60 02:20pm -02:35pm	*Jose Martinez, Weiling Dong, Robert Simpson**: Optical response of chalcogenide phase-change materials
28 02:35pm -02:50pm	Chang Chi Kwong, Syed Abdullah Aljunid, Eng Aik Chan, Rustem Shakhmuratov, David Wilkowski: High modulation index frequency modulation spectroscopy
54 02:50pm -03:05pm	Joseph Vas, Mayank Mishra, Paul Lee, Rajdeep Rawat: Investigation of Plasma Dynamics using Fast Gated Imaging

T16: Topological effects 2

Friday, 9 Mar, 11:00am - Venue: LT2; Chair: Zhang Baile

97 (INVITED) 11:00am-11:20am	*Weikang Wu, Ying Liu, Si Li, Chengyong Zhong, Zhi-Ming Yu, Xian-Lei Sheng, Y. X. Zhao, Shengyuan Yang**: Nodal surface semimetals: Theory and material realization
93 11:20am -11:35am	*Zhi-Ming Yu, Ying Liu, Yugui Yao, Shengyuan Yang**: Unconventional Pairing Induced Anomalous Transverse Shift in Andreev Reflection
74 11:35am -11:50am	Harish N. S. Krishnamoorthy, Giorgio Adamo, Felix Hütt, Harald Giessen, Nikolay I Zheludev, Cesare Soci: Topological Insulator Metamaterials
43 11:50am -12:05pm	*Raditya Bomantara, Jiangbin Gong**: Stroboscopic braiding of Majorana modes
96 12:05pm -12:20pm	Ziming Zhu*: Triple Point Topological Metals

T17: Applied Quantum Physics

Friday, 9 Mar, 11:00am - Venue: LT3; Chair: Alessandro Cere

5 (INVITED) 11:00am-11:20am	*James Grieve, Kian Fong Ng, Manuel Rodrigues, Filip Auksztol, José Viana-Gomes, Alexander Ling**: Elastomer waveguides: tunable devices for quantum optics
106 (INVITED) 11:20am -11:40am	*Anna Paterova, Hongzni Yang, Chengwu An, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Leonid Krivitsky**: Infrared metrology using visible photons
87 11:40am -11:55am	*Jianwei Lee, Lijiong Shen, Alessandro Cerè, James Troupe, Antia Lamas-Linares, Christian Kurtsiefer**: Secure Quantum Clock Synchronization
40 11:55am -12:10pm	Aitor Villar, Arian Stolk, Alexander Lohrmann, Alexander Ling: Parallel-aligned crystal entangled-photon source (PACES) for entanglement-based applications
121 12:10pm -12:25pm	Ruixiang Guo, Anton N. Vetlugin, Mikhail V. Shestakov, Salih Yanıkgönül, Venkatram Nalla, Cesare Soci, Nikolay I. Zheludev: Nanophotonic Quantum Devices Realized in Fibers and on Chips

T18: Many-body Physics

Friday, 9 Mar, 11:00am - Venue: LT4; Chair: Christian Miniatura

51 11:00am-11:15am	*Munir Shahzad, Pinaki Sengupta**: Noncollinear magnetic ordering in the Shastry-Sutherland Kondo lattice model: Insulating regime and the role of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction
89 11:15am -11:30am	Indra Yudhistira, Derek Y. H. Ho, Shaffique Adam*: Electron-electron contribution to graphene conductivity
34 11:30am -11:45am	*Nyayabanta Swain, Pinaki Majumdar**: Mott transition in the pyrochlore oxides.
113 11:45am -12:00pm	Longwen Zhou, Qinghai Wang, Hailong Wang, Jiangbin Gong: Dynamical quantum phase transitions in non-Hermitian lattices
56 12:00pm -12:15pm	*Martin-Isbjoern Trappe, Tri Chau Thanh, Jun Hao Hue, Berthold-Georg Englert, Derek Ho, Shaffique Adam**: Orbital-free density potential functional theory: Applications to quantum gases and materials
3 12:15pm -12:30pm	*Vinitha Balachandran, Giuliano Benenti, Emmanuel Pereira, Giulio Casati, Dario Poletti**: Perfect diode in quantum spin chains

T19: Physics Demonstrations and Applications

Friday, 9 Mar, 11:00am - Venue: LT5; Chair: Subramaniam RAMANATHAN

111 (INVITED) 11:00am-11:20am	Erkan Polatdemir*: Sparking Curiosity and Sustaining Interest in Physics Through Demonstrations
13 (INVITED) 11:20am -11:40am	S.N. Piramanayagam, Xiaoxi Liu, Sabpreet Bhatti: Stress Induced Domain Wall Motion and its application in Energy Harvesting
75 11:40am -11:55am	*Chang Huang, Pei Chen Kuan, Shau-Yu Lan*: Continuous Motional Sensing of High Dispersive Medium
146 11:55am -12:10pm	Presentation CANCELLED Hui Jiang, Denis Fichou: Single-Crystal Growth of Organic Semicondutcors for Field-Effect Transistors and Some Potential Applications
6 12:10pm -12:25pm	*R Prasada Rao, Stefan Adams**: Atomic layer deposited electrolyte membranes for Lithium sulfur batteries