Edoardo Baldini - UT Austin

Wednesday 12 Nov 2025, 08:00 → 20:00 US/Eastern

IAMM

Bio: Edoardo Baldini received his Ph.D. in Physics from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2017 and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) until the end of 2021. He joined the faculty of the Department of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin in January 2022. His research lies at the intersection of quantum condensed matter physics and optical science and is driven by the aim to understand and manipulate complex materials and their emergent quantum phases with tailored laser pulses. His discoveries have led him to receive various prizes, including the Ludwig Genzel Prize, the Sloan Research Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the AFOSR YIP Award, and the IBM Prize in Condensed Matter Physics.

Webpage: https://baldinilab.org/

09:00 → 09:30 Pick up at hotel

Travel to IAMM.

Speaker: Yishu Wang (University of Tennessee Knoxville)

09:30 → 10:00 Research Meeting

Speaker: Haidong Zhou (Physics)

10:00 → 10:20 Talk Prep

10:20 → 11:20 Seminar: Nonlinear Coupled Magnonics

Tailored light excitation and nonlinear control of lattice vibrations have emerged as powerful strategies to manipulate the properties of quantum materials out of equilibrium. Generalizing the use of coherent phonon-phonon interactions to nonlinear couplings among other types of collective modes would open unprecedented opportunities in the design of novel dynamic functionalities in solids. For example, the collective excitations of magnetic order – magnons – can carry quantum information with little energy dissipation, and their coherent and nonlinear control would provide an attractive route to achieve collective-mode-based information processing and storage in forthcoming spintronics and quantum information science. In this talk, I will show that intense terahertz (THz) fields can initiate processes of magnon up-conversion and magnon mixing mediated by an intermediate magnetic resonance. By using a suite of advanced spectroscopic tools, including a newly demonstrated two-dimensional THz polarimetry technique, we unveil these anharmonic magnon coupling phenomena in a canted antiferromagnet. These results demonstrate a route to inducing desirable energy transfer pathways between coherent magnons in solids and pave the way for a new era in the development of ultrafast control of magnetism.

Zoom: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/86292515289

11:30 → 12:00 Research Meeting

Speaker: Norman Mannella (UTK - Physics)

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

Steve Johnston and Wonhee Ko

14:00 → 14:30 Research Meeting

Speaker: Steve Johnston (University of Tennessee)

14:30 → 15:00 Research Meeting

Speaker: Yishu Wang (University of Tennessee Knoxville)

15:00 → 15:30 Research Meeting

Speaker: Yang Zhang

15:30 → 16:00 Research Meeting

Speaker: Hanno Weitering

16:00 → 16:30 Research Meeting & to SERF on the campus

Speaker: Ruixing Zhang (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee Knoxville)

16:30 → 17:00 Research Meeting

Speaker: Janice Musfeldt

18:00 → 20:00 Dinner @ Kefi

Yishu Wang, Ruixing Zhang, and Norman Mannella