LPHYS'26. Program:
Seminar 1: Modern Trends in Laser Physics
Co-chairs:
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Olga Kocharovskaya
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
kochar@physics.tamu.edu -

Barry M. Garraway
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, East Sussex, UK
b.m.garraway@sussex.ac.uk
Our Seminar 1 is the only one in the frame of our workshop which is not focused on one particular research area but covers a broad range of modern trends in the field of light-matter interactions in accordance with its title, "Modern trends in laser physics".
Schedule:
Monday, 6 July, 2026
- S1.1 (13:30 – 15:30)Chair: Olga Kocharovskaya (USA)
- 13:30 – 13:55 G S Agarwal (Texas A&M University, College Station, USA)Waveguide QED – from Quantum Nonreciprocity to Dimerized Entanglement (invited talk) Abstract
- 13:55 – 14:20 V V Kocharovsky (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA) Hybrid, Atom and Photon Boson Sampling (invited talk) Abstract
- 14:20 – 14:45 N R Rivera (Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA) Predicting and Controlling Quantum and Classical Noise Response in Multimode Nonlinear Photonics (invited talk) Abstract
- 14:45 – 15:05 E E Mikhailov, K Wen, C Gabaldon, I Novikova (Physics, William & Mary, Williamsburg VA, USA) Uncovering Hidden Spatial Quantum Modes of Squeezed Vacuum (invited talk) Abstract
- 15:05 – 15:30 D Seletskiy (Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, USA; Engineering Physics, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, Canada), G Demontigny, S Virally (Engineering Physics, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, Canada) Ultrafast Bright Quantum Light (invited talk) Abstract
- S1.2 (16:00 – 19:00) Chair: Girish Agarwal (USA)
- 16:00 – 16:25 K R A Hazzard (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston TX, USA)What Is a Phase of Matter in a Cavity? (invited talk) Abstract
- 16:25 – 16:50 E Shahmoon (Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel) Quantum Light-Matter Interfaces with Tweezer Atomic Arrays (invited talk) Abstract
- 16:50 – 17:15 S Kim, B. S. Ham (Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea) Experimental demonstrations of coherence de Broglie wavelength for superresolution sensing (invited talk) Abstract
- 17:15 – 17:40 H Nha (Physics Department, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, USA) Characterizing and Observing Quantum Multipartite Entanglement (invited talk) Abstract
- 17:40 – 18:05 V Rodimin, Y Kurochkin, K Kravtsov, R-M Chua (Quantum communications, TII, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), X Zhang (Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; Quantum communications, TII, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), A Ponasenko, J A Grieve (Quantum communications, TII, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) Broadband Characterization of Polarization Mode Dispersion for Quantum Communication Channels (invited talk) Abstract
- 18:05 – 18:30 B Min (Departmenf of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea) Photonic Time Crystals: Transport, Emission, Squeezing (invited talk) Abstract
Tuesday, 7 July, 2026
- S1.3 (13:30 – 15:30)Chair: Selim Shahriar (USA)
- 13:30 – 13:55 J M Rost (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany)Relational Quantum Light (invited talk) Abstract
- 13:55 – 14:20 V M Schäfer (Quantum Dynamics&Control, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK), Heidelberg, Germany) Searching for a Variation of the Fine Structure Constant with Highly Charged Ions (invited talk) Abstract
- 14:20 – 14:40 C Sanner (Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO, USA) New Tests of Relativity with Optical Ion Clocks (invited talk) Abstract
- 14:40 – 15:05 Z Zager, D Pham, W Fan, H E Tureci (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA) Stabilization and Formation of Primordial Hydrogen in Non-Perturbative QED₂ (invited talk) Abstract
- 15:05 – 15:25 S J Borden, A M Dana, K Guy, M B Nguyen, A Grinin, A A Geraci (Physics, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, USA) Progress Towards Non-Newtonian Gravity Searches with Optically Levitated Force Sensors (invited talk) Abstract
- S1.4 (16:00 – 17:30)
- 16:00 – 16:20 I Novikova, R Behary, W Torg, E E Mikhailov, S A Aubin (Physics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA, USA)Rydberg Atomic Vector Electrometer (RAVE) for Static Electric Fields (invited talk) Abstract
- 16:20 – 16:45 B M Garraway (Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK) Dressing Ultra-Cold Atoms for Matter-Wave Bubbles and Rings (invited talk) Abstract
- 16:45 – 17:10 F Atzori (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Turin, Italy; Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy), N Lal (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD, USA), C M Nunn (Joint Quantum Institute and University of Maryland, College Park MD, USA; National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD, USA), M V Jabir (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD, USA), D Ahn (Joint Quantum Institute and University of Maryland, College Park MD, USA; National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD, USA), F Piacentini, I P Degiovanni, M Genovese (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Turin, Italy), I A Burenkov (Joint Quantum Institute and University of Maryland, College Park MD, USA; National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD, USA), S V Polyakov (Physics, University of Maryland, College Park MD, USA; National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD, USA) Certifying Path-Entanglement over Quantum Networks Using Only Quantum Resources (invited talk) Abstract
- 17:10 – 17:35 P M Kraus (Department of Physics, and LaserLaB, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL), Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Ultrafast Nanoscopy by Deactivated High-Harmonic Generation from Solids (invited talk) Abstract
Wednesday, 8 July, 2026
- S1.5 (13:30 – 15:30)Chair: Ralf Röhlsberger (Germany)
- 13:30 – 13:55 A Derevianko (Physics, University of Nevada, Reno NV, USA)Theoretical Aspects of Developing the Th-229 Nuclear Clock (invited talk) Abstract
- 13:55 – 14:20 L von der Wense (Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany) Laser Spectroscopy of the 229Th Nuclear Transition - Current Status and Applications (invited talk) Abstract
- 14:20 – 14:40 W-T Liao (Department of Physics, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan) Gravitational Photon Echo Using Thorium-229 Nuclear Clock Transition (invited talk) Abstract
- 14:40 – 15:05 X Zhang, O A Kocharovskaya (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA) Quantum Memory for Hard X-Ray Photons (invited talk) Abstract
- 15:05 – 15:30 S Sadashivaiah (X-ray Science, Helmholtz Institut Jena, Jena, Germany), B Pandit (Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany), B Marx-Glowna, R Loetzsch (Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany; X-ray Science, Helmholtz Institut Jena, Jena, Germany), T Wunderlich, Y Wang (Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany), L Bocklage (Photon Science, DESY, Hamburg, Germany), B Detlefs, C Sahle (ESRF, Grenoble, France), R Röhlsberger (Photon Science, DESY, Hamburg, Germany; Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany; X-ray Science, Helmholtz Institut Jena, Jena, Germany) Coherent 181Ta Time-Domain Nuclear Resonant Scattering at 6.2 keV (invited talk) Abstract
- S1.6 (16:00 – 19:00) Chair: Andrei Derevianko (USA)
- 16:00 – 16:25 J von Zanthier (Institut für Optik, Information und Photonik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany)New Results jf Incoherent Diffraction Imaging (IDI) for X-Ray Structure Analysis (invited talk) Abstract
- 16:25 – 16:50 X J Kong (Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China) From Multiexcitation to Superradiant Burst in Resonant Nuclear X-Ray Emission (invited talk) Abstract
- 16:50 – 17:15 F F Karpeshin, K V Chekirda, E Yu Korzinin, Y A Kustikov, A A Neklyudova, A N Pronin, L F Vitushkin (Mendeleyev Institute for Metrology, St.-Petersburg, Russia) Electron-Nuclear Resonance as the Alternative Path to Nuclear Clocks (invited talk) Abstract
- 17:15 – 17:40 M Gerharz, J Evers (Theoretical Quantum Dynamics and Quantum Electrodynamics, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany) Nuclear Quantum Dynamics at X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers Abstract
- 17:40 – 18:05 Z-A Peng, C H Keitel, J Evers (Theory Division, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany) Parametric Mössbauer Radiation: General Diffraction Geometry and Coherent Amplification (invited talk) Abstract
- 18:05 – 18:30 A Sandhu (Department of Physics and Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, USA) Compact X-Ray Free Electron Laser Development and Applications (invited talk) Abstract
Thursday, 9 July, 2026
- S1.7 (13:30 – 15:30)Chair: Denis Seletskiy (USA)
- 13:30 – 13:55 H Merdji (Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France)Quantum Nature of High Harmonic Generation (invited talk) Abstract
- 13:55 – 14:15 C Heide (Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando FL, USA) Frontiers in Petahertz Electronics Abstract
- 14:15 – 14:40 A Marandi (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, USA) Ultrafast Quantum and Classical Nonlinear Nanophotonic Circuits (invited talk) Abstract
- 14:40 – 15:05 E Lustig (ECE Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; Solid State Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel) Controlling Multimode Gaussian States of Light in Nonlinear Micro-Resonators (invited talk) Abstract
- 15:05 – 15:30 S M Shahriar (ECE and Physics, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, USA), J Li (Physic and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, USA) Nano-Particle Matter-Wave Interferometry for Ultra-Sensitive Rotation Sensing and Test of Quantum Gravity (invited talk) Abstract
- S1.8 (16:00 – 19:00)
- 16:00 – 16:25 L Yang (Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis MO, USA)Exceptional Points in Lasing Systems: From Loss-Induced Lasing to Laser Mode Braiding (invited talk) Abstract
- 16:25 – 16:50 Vl V Kocharovsky, E R Kocharovskaya (Federal research center A.V. Gaponov-Grekhov Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS), Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) Three Thresholds of Non-Stationary Superradiant Lasing (invited talk) Abstract
- 16:50 – 17:05 E R Kocharovskaya, Vl V Kocharovsky (Federal research center A.V. Gaponov-Grekhov Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS), Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) 2nd Threshold of Superradiant Lasing: Typical Cases of Variable Cavity (invited talk) Abstract
- 17:05 – 17:25 A N Montanari, A E D Barioni, A E Motter (Physic and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, USA) Disorder-Promoted Synchronization and Coherence in Coupled Laser Networks (invited talk) Abstract
- 17:25 – 17:45 J P von der Weid (Research Centre for Inspection Technologies, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), P Tovar (Bell Research Center, Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ottawa, Canada), W Margulis (Physics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Distributed Random Lasing Sensors (invited talk) Abstract
- 17:45 – 18:05 S Kotochigova (Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA) Laser-Controlled Nonadiabatic Processes in Excited-State Molecules Abstract
- 18:05 – 18:25 H B Li (Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA) Optical Two-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy of Color-Center Arrays in Diamond (invited talk) Abstract
Friday, 10 July, 2026
- S1.9 (13:30 – 15:30)Chair: Barry Garraway (UK)
- 13:30 – 13:55 A K Karnieli (ECE Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)Towards Entanglement of Free-Electron Pairs and Free-Electron–Bound-Electron Systems (invited talk) Abstract
- 13:55 – 14:15 J Peatross, M Ballif, K Barr (Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo UT, USA), N Sá (Physics, U. of Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal), Y Sun, M Ware (Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo UT, USA) Characterizing Polarization of Nonlinear Thomson Scattering (invited talk) Abstract
- 14:15 – 14:40 P J Ho, A Venkatesh (Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA), C Knight ( Computational Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA), S Kuschel (Department of Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany), T Gorkhover (Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany), L Young (Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA) Coherence and Structural Information in Intense X-Ray–Driven Systems (invited talk) Abstract
- 14:40 – 15:05 T Heldt (Quantum Dynamics and Control, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany), H Liang (Theory Division, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany), L Guth, J-H Oelmann, A Agarwal, L Matt (Quantum Dynamics and Control, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany), K Z Hatsagortsyan, C H Keitel (Theory Division, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany), T Pfeifer, J R Crespo López-Urrutia (Quantum Dynamics and Control, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany) Ultrafast Kapitza-Dirac Effect in a Femtosecond Enhancement Cavity (invited talk) Abstract
- 15:05 – 15:30 Y Sivan (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel) Ultrafast Optical Nonlinearity of Transparent Conducting Oxides (invited talk) Abstract