Name: Frontiers in Ultrafast Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Start: 2026-04-21T06:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-24T18:00:00+02:00
Location: INFN Frascati National Laboratories

Frontiers in Ultrafast Phenomena in Quantum Materials

from Tuesday, April 21, 2026 (6:00 AM) to Friday, April 24, 2026 (6:00 PM)

Monday, April 20, 2026
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

8:30 AM Registration
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Session 1
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Aula Salvini
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome and Opening - Enrico Perfetto (University of Rome Tor Vergata)

9:15 AM The EuPRAXIA project: a plasma-based accelerator user facility for the next decade. - Massimo Ferrario

9:45 AM Terahertz and Infrared Time-Resolved Spectroscopy in Quantum Materials - Stefano Lupi (Department of Physics and INFN, Sapienza University of Rome)

10:15 AM Theoretical Modeling of Ultrafast Phase Transitions from the Femtosecond to the Picosecond Scale - Matteo Calandra Buonaura (Università di Trento)
10:45 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM Session 1
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Aula Salvini
Contributions

11:30 AM EuPRAXIA: Plasma-Based Accelerators for Ultrafast Photon Science - Francesco Stellato (University of Rome Tor Vergata & INFN)

12:00 PM Excitonic Enhancement of Shift Current in Janus TMDs: A Real‑Time Many‑Body Approach - Myrta Gruening (Queen’s University Belfast)

12:30 PM Ultrafast Exciton Dynamics in Black Phosphorus tracked by time-resolved ARPES - microscopic insights from quantitive experiment-theory comparison - Michael Schüler (Paul Scherrer Institute / University of Fribourg)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:45 PM
2:45 PM Session 2
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Contributions

2:45 PM Tracking photoinduced dynamics in layered semiconductors with ultrafast spectroscopies - Stefania Pagliara (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

3:15 PM Coherent and Incoherent Exciton Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Materials - Alejandro Molina Sanchez (Universidad de Valencia)
3:45 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Session 2
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM The real-time ab initio non-equilibrium ultrafast dynamics of excitons in 2D materials - Daniel Santos Stone (CNRS, TIMES, AMU)

4:45 PM Excitonic effects in the photoexcited carrier dynamics of two-dimensional semiconductors. - Carlos Betancur (PhD student, University of Rome Tor Vergata)

5:00 PM Many-Body Simulations of Optical Dichroism and Exciton-Phonon Physics in Quantum Materials - Petru Milev (Istituto di Struttura della Materia-CNR (ISM-CNR))
6:15 PM Welcome aperitif
Welcome aperitif
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
9:15 AM Session 4
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Contributions

9:15 AM Real-Time Excitonic Populations and Excitonic Photoemission Spectra Beyond the Dilute Limit - Gianluca Stefanucci (dipartimento di fisica, universita' di roma tor vergata)

9:45 AM Attosecond spectroscopy as a window into topological phase structure - Antonio Picón (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC))

10:15 AM Excitons and Light–Matter Interaction in Emerging Materials for Optoelectronic Applications - maurizia palummo (Tor Vergata University)
10:45 AM Coffee Break and LNF Shop
Coffee Break and LNF Shop
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM Session 4
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Light-induced Faraday effect from non-adiabatic breaking of time-reversal symmetry - Lara Benfatto (Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome)

12:00 PM Tunability of exciton landscape in layered materials: effects of electric fields, stacking orders and exciton-phonon coupling - Fulvio Paleari (CNR - Nanoscience Institute)

12:30 PM Simulating Nuclear Motion in Light-Driven Systems - Mariana Rossi (MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:45 PM
2:45 PM Session 6
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Contributions

2:45 PM Attosecond electron dynamics in doped semiconductors - Matteo Lucchini (Dipartimento di Fisica - Politecnico di Milano)

3:15 PM Shift current in 2D crystals: models and ab-initio calculations - Claudio Attaccalite (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université CINaM)
3:45 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM Session 6
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Contributions

4:15 PM Watching polarons form in real time - Victor Garcia (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)

4:30 PM First-principles description of the dynamical magnetoelectric response in Cr2O3 - Torsten Geirsson (University of Valencia)

4:45 PM Thermal Effects on the Optical Response of Monolayer MoS2: A Real-Time Study Integrating Phonon-Induced Dissipation - Anna Romani (Queen's University Belfast)

5:00 PM Open-System TDDFT: Capturing Decoherence and Relaxation via Markovian Electron–Phonon Dynamics - Subhojit Pal (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica—Emilio Segrè, Via Archirafi 36, 90123 Palermo, Italy)
Thursday, April 23, 2026
9:15 AM Session 7
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Contributions

9:15 AM Ultrafast Formation of a Condensed Carrier Phase in the High-Density Photoexcitation Regime - Giuseppe Ammirati (CNR-Istituto di Struttura della Materia)

9:45 AM Valley depolarization due to exciton-phonon interactions in monolayer MoS2 - Yang-hao Chan (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan)

10:15 AM Electronic Screening in Two-Dimensional Materials and Metals: Efficient First-Principles Approaches - Daniele Varsano (CNR - Institute of Nanoscience, Italy)
10:45 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM Session 7
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Symmetry breaking in TDLDA dynamics of symmetric molecules - Phuong Mai Dinh (Laboratory for Theoretical Physique of Toulouse)

12:00 PM Electronic and Optical Properties of Two-Dimensional Materials: Towards Exciton Dynamics - Riccardo Reho (University of Luxembourg)

12:30 PM Real-Time TDDFT with Dissipation: Towards First-Principles Ultrafast Dynamics in Solids - Umberto De Giovannini (University of Palermo)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:45 PM
2:45 PM Session 8
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Contributions

2:45 PM Ultrafast Exciton Correlations and Valley Dynamics in 2D TMDs - Stefano Dal Conte (Politecnico di Milano)

3:15 PM Nonequilibrium physics with ab initio real time propagation schemes. From coherent excitons in the XUV regime to exciton-phonon coupling. - Davide Sangalli (Istituto di Struttura della Materia (ISM) - CNR)
3:45 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM Session 8
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Contributions

4:15 PM Realistic nuclear ensembles for electronic excitation dynamics - Hannah Bertschi (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter)

4:30 PM Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Defected 2D Materials - Karina Madela Landivar Zambrana (Phd student-Università degli Studi di Milano)

4:45 PM Exciton Transport in Monolayer TMDs - Lifeng Ou (University of Valencia)

5:00 PM Electronic Dynamics of the Na₉⁺ Cluster: A Study Based on the STDLDA Method - Tingting GU (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de Toulouse, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier,)
7:30 PM Social Dinner
Social Dinner
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Friday, April 24, 2026
9:15 AM Session 9
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Contributions

9:15 AM Pressure-Driven Exciton-to-Trion Conversion in Monolayer WS2 - Elena Stellino (Sapienza Università di Roma)

9:45 AM Excitons in WSe2 time–resolved ARPES: particle or oscillation? - Andrea Marini (CNR-ISM)

10:15 AM Tomography of quantum exciton liquid - Luca Perfetti (Ecole Polytechnique)
10:45 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM Session 9
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Photoinduced phase transitions in photoexcited semiconductors - Giovanni Marini

12:00 PM Symmetries of excitons and application to resonant Raman spectroscopy - Muralidhar Nalabothula (University of Luxembourg)

12:30 PM Concluding Remarks - Enrico Perfetto (University of Rome Tor Vergata)

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