Engineering Quantum Matter by Light
​Xinwei Li Lab @ NUS Physics
Research

Symmetry- and energy-resolved spectroscopy on complex materials
There exists in nature a fascinating material class where the quantum-mechanical nature of electron-electron correlations manifests at a macroscopic level...

Laser-induced phase transitions in correlated insulators
Phase diagrams of materials are usually constructed by ramping a set of time-independent control parameters, such as electric and magnetic fields, doping...

Cavity quantum matter
Physicists have observed in a variety of scenarios that the spontaneous emission rate of a quantum dipole depends on its photonic environment...

Ultrafast spintronics
The field of modern condensed matter physics has witnessed an explosive growth of interest in spin dynamics...