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

非技术说明该奖项旨在支持 2023 年有机分子强耦合会议，该会议将于 2023 年 6 月 20 日至 22 日在加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥举行。该会议将为美国境内新兴的分子极化激元领域的有效思想交流提供一个重要平台。极化子是一种独特的电子态，是由电磁波与光激发时具有电偶极子或磁偶极子的材料的强耦合产生的。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发挥领导作用提供了机会。该活动将展示该领域的最新进展和挑战，形成一个有凝聚力的研究人员社区，并促进利用强光-物质相互作用来控制分子材料的物理化学性质。该奖项将为参加会议的早期职业科学家提供支持，并从他们工作的讨论和展示中受益。技术描述本次会议将成为分子极化学新兴领域中有效交流思想的重要平台。该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，并促进利用强光与物质相互作用来控制分子材料的电子和光子特性。分子极化子学已经证明了对能量转换的控制和新颖的宏观量子相干现象，例如室温玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚。这些现象背后的许多机制仍然未知，理论和实验方面都需要取得重大进展，以开发基于分子极化子的强大技术。特别是，通过极化子控制能量转换的过程和通过极化子凝聚态的量子逻辑运算具有重要意义。总体而言，本次会议旨在解决极化子学领域的挑战和前景，促进下一代光电和光子材料的发展。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值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.