Light-Matter Control of Quantum Materials

  • Light-matter interaction on a 2D material (symbolic picture)

    Light-matter interaction on a 2D material

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  • Effects in cavity quantum materials (symbolic picture)

    Effects in cavity quantum materials

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  • Cavity quantum materials (symbolic picture)

    Cavity quantum materials

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Join us!

If you have been always excited about Hermitian and non-Hermitian operators, you want to deepen your (and our) knowledge on quantum materials in interaction with light (or sometimes without), you are not afraid of computers, and you enjoy to work in an agile international team: make your bachelor, your master or even your PhD thesis in the LMCQM group. Contact Michael for further details.

We are a theoretical condensed matter physics research group having fun at the intersection of non-equilibrium many-body physics, quantum materials, and quantum optics. We also simulate atomistic systems with different levels of approximations, and participate in the development of an open source scientific software package which is used all over the world.

We are part of the Institute of Theoretical Solid-State Physics and the Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science.

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Benchmark Data Set of Crystalline Organic Semiconductors

A. Zhugayevych, W. Sun, T. van der Heide, C. R. Lien-Medrano, T. Frauenheim, and S. Tretiak

J. Chem. Theory Comput. 19, 8481 (2023)

This work reports a Benchmark Data set of Crystalline Organic Semiconductors to test calculations of the structural and electronic properties of these materials in…


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libMBD: A general-purpose package for scalable quantum many-body dispersion calculations

J. Hermann, M. Stöhr, Sz. Góger, S. Chaudhuri, B. Aradi, R. J. Maurer, A. Tkatchenko

J. Chem. Phys.  159, 174802 (2023)

Many-body dispersion (MBD) is a powerful framework to treat van der Waals (vdW) dispersion interactions in density-functional theory and related atomistic modeling methods.…


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Multipole Expansion of Atomic Electron Density Fluctuation Interactions in the Density-Functional Tight-Binding Method

Van-Quan Vuong, Bálint Aradi, Anders M. N. Niklasson, Qiang Cui, and Stephan Irle

J. Chem. Theory Comput19, 7592 (2023).

The accuracy of the density-functional tight-binding (DFTB) method in describing noncovalent interactions is limited due to its reliance on monopole-based spherical charge…


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Michael awarded with ERC Consolidator Grant

With the ERC Consolidator Grant, he will receive funding of around two million euros. The funding will benefit the CAVMAT research project he is leading, which focuses on new ways of changing matter through light.

Further details in the university's press release.


Invited speaker at DPG Spring-Meeting

Michael has been invited as speaker at the DPG Spring Meeting in Berlin (17.-22.03.2024) in the section for condensed matter (SKM).


Logo of the QOElectrons 25 Workshop

Quantum Optics of Correlated Electron Systems (Jan/Feb 2025)

Michael is co-organizing the KITP-Workshop "Quantum Optics of Correlated Electron Systems" at UC Santa Barbara.