Conference: Strong Coupling with Organic Molecules (SCOM-23)

非技术描述他的奖项是为了支持将于2023年6月20日至22日在加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥举行的2023年与有机分子强耦合2023年会议。这次会议将在美国国内为在新兴的分子极化电子领域有效地交流思想提供一个重要的平台。极化子是一种独特的电子态，当光激发时，电磁波与具有电偶极子或磁偶极子的材料强烈耦合而产生。这将是该会议首次在美国举行，为美国在该领域的科学话语中的领导地位提供了一个机会。这次活动将展示该领域的最新进展和挑战，产生一个有凝聚力的研究人员社区，并促进利用强烈的光-物质相互作用来控制分子材料的物理化学性质。该奖项将为早期职业科学家参加会议提供支持，并从讨论和介绍他们的工作中受益。技术描述这次会议将成为在新兴的分子极化电子学领域有效交流思想的重要平台。这次活动将展示该领域的最新进展和挑战，有助于形成一个有凝聚力的研究人员社区，并促进利用强烈的光-物质相互作用来控制分子材料的电子和光子性质。分子极化子已经展示了对能量传递的控制和新颖的宏观量子相干现象，如室温玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体。这些现象背后的许多机制尚不清楚，需要在理论和实验方面取得重大进展，以发展基于分子极化子的强大技术。特别是，用极化子控制能量传递和用极化子凝聚体进行量子逻辑运算的过程非常重要。总体而言，本次会议旨在应对极化电子学领域的挑战和前景，促进下一代光电子和光子材料的发展。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTIONThis award is to support the 2023 Strong Coupling with Organic Molecules 2023 Conference, to be held June 20 through 22, 2023, in San Diego, California. The conference will provide an important platform within the U.S. for the efficient exchange of ideas in the burgeoning field of molecular polaritonics. Polaritons are unique electronic state arising from strong coupling of electromagnetic waves with a material with an electric or magnetic dipole when optically excited. This will be the first time that the conference will be held in the United States, providing an opportunity to the leadership of the U.S. in the scientific discourse of the field. The event will showcase recent progress and challenges in the field, generate a cohesive community of researchers, and promote the exploitation of strong light-matter interactions to control the physicochemical properties of molecular materials. This award will provide support for early career scientists to attend the meeting and benefit from discussions and presentation of their work.TECHNICAL DESCRIPTIONThis conference will serve as an important platform for the efficient exchange of ideas in the burgeoning field of molecular polaritonics. The event will showcase recent progress and challenges in the field, contribute to generating a cohesive community of researchers, and promote the exploitation of strong light-matter interactions to control the electronic and photonic properties of molecular materials. Molecular polaritonics have already demonstrated control of energy transduction and novel macroscopic quantum coherent phenomena such as room-temperature Bose-Einstein condensates. Many of the mechanisms that underlie these phenomena remain unknown, and significant advances are needed on both the theoretical and experimental sides to develop robust technologies based on molecular polaritons. In particular, the processes of controlling energy transduction by polaritonics and quantum logic operations by polariton condensates hold great. Overall, this conference aims to address the challenges and prospects of the field of polaritonics and foster development of next generation optoelectronic and photonic materials.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.