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Our article from Phys.org, discussing our recent work on "Observation of nonvanishing optical helicity in thermal radiation from symmetry-broken metasurfaces" has been published in Science Advances (2023). Spinning thermal radiation is a unique phenomenon observed in condensed astronomical objects...

Our most recent work on "picophotonics" has been featured in Purdue News which says "Light-matter interaction in materials is central to several photonic devices from lasers to detectors. Over the past decade, nanophotonics, the study of how light flows on the nanometer scale in engineered...

Check out our recent News & View article ‘Symmetry breaking in thermal photonics.’ in Light: Science and Applications. Thermal radiation is omnipresent and is engineered for various applications in modern photonics, such as cooling, imaging, and energy harvesting. Symmetries and symmetry breaking...

Our recent work on ‘Observation of nonvanishing optical helicity in thermal radiation from symmetry-broken metasurfaces’ has been published in Science Advances. We uncover a new method for generating spinning thermal radiation in a controlled & efficient manner using metasurfaces. Spinning thermal...

In this talk, Dr. Chen-Ting Liao introduced the topology of light – the light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM). The OAM of light can be static, dynamic, or spatiotemporal. Static OAM of light has been known for three decades and has found numerous applications, from optical trapping, and...

In this talk, Prof. Ricardo Decca presents our current efforts to perform a measurement of the elusive quantum friction. While there is now a more or less established theoretical picture of the expected friction experienced by a dipole moving in front of a dielectric plate, experimental results are...

In the given talk, Prof. Naik spoke about quantum materials possessing a complex energy landscape arising from the competition between many microscopic processes. A stimulus such as light can tip the delicate balance between these competing processes resulting in novel optical phenomena...

Prof. Barry Bradlyn spoke about the discovery of topological materials is one of the most transformative recent breakthroughs in condensed matter physics, revealing new conceptual surprises in established topics such as the phases of matter and the behavior of electrons in insulators. Most work on...

We will host a pico-seminar series with world-leading experts on the topic. While we are biased towards theorists, we will certainly have many experimental speakers as well. How does light interact with matter? The problem has attracted interest over a long time but only now do we have the...

We are delighted to share our recent work on “Nonequilibrium Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometry: Theory and application to binary stars,” published in Physical Review Research. We develop a general formalism of Hanbury Brown and Twiss's experiment for objects at different temperatures. We also apply...