Andrei Piryatinski is a Technical Staff Member at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Andrei also holds an adjunct faculty position in the Physics Department at the University of New Mexico. His research interests include ultrafast carriers dynamics in nanostructured semiconductors and metals, optical properties of nanostructures and nanoplasmonics, ultrafast nonlinear (multidimensional) spectroscopy, and nonadiabatic quantum/semiclassical molecular dynamics.
Expertise
- Theory and modeling:
- Strongly coupled quantum emitters, including semiconductor heterostructures and organic chromophores, in photonic and plasmonic cavities
- Cavity polaritons, including condensation, superradiance, and lasing phenomena
- Quantum light generation and its interaction with nanostructured optical materials
- Modeling:
- Quantum photon and classical cooperative emission properties from semiconductor quantum dots, defect states, and quantum materials
- Quantum light scattering properties by assemblies of nanostructured quantum emitters, plasmonic arrays, and cavity polaritons
Education
PhD, Physics, University of Toledo
MS, Physics, Kyiv University