You are warmly invited to attend the following seminar:

Nonthermal Orders in Correlated Insulators

Speaker: Denis Golež
Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Date: Friday, July 10
Time: 11:00
Location: Notkestraße 9–11, Room 4024/26

This seminar is part of the OPTIMAL research group seminar series and will be held in a hybrid format.

Zoom link: https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/62506767287?pwd=JESW70NZoH7sl6Vb8Sud9AavMiMKW7.1

Abstract:
Recent advances in ultrafast experimental techniques, material synthesis, and innovative cavity designs have unlocked the potential for photo-engineering metastable phases across a broad class of quantum materials and simulators. In this talk, Denis Golež will present a systematic framework for analyzing emergent nonthermal orders in systems where dynamical bottlenecks constrain relaxation, based on the identification of approximately conserved quantities and their incorporation into a generalized Gibbs ensemble description. This approach provides a transparent route to characterizing long-lived nonequilibrium states beyond conventional thermal paradigms. Applications to Mott insulators, semiconductors, and layered transition metal dichalcogenides reveal a rich landscape of nonthermal phases, including exotic superconductivity, charge-density waves, and excitonic condensates.