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

该奖项旨在支持将于2023年6月20日至22日在加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥举行的2023年有机分子强耦合会议。会议将提供一个重要的平台，在美国境内有效地交换思想在分子极化电子学的新兴领域。极化子是电磁波与具有电偶极子或磁偶极子的材料在光激发作用下产生的一种独特的电子态。这将是该会议首次在美国举行，为美国在该领域的科学论述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，产生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。该奖项将支持早期职业科学家参加会议，并从他们的工作讨论和展示中受益。本次会议将为分子极化电子学这一新兴领域提供一个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-物质相互作用来控制分子材料的电子和光子特性。分子极化电子学已经证明了能量转导的控制和新的宏观量子相干现象，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，需要在理论和实验方面取得重大进展，以开发基于分子极化的强大技术。特别是用极化电子学控制能量转导的过程和用极化子凝聚体控制量子逻辑运算的过程。总的来说，本次会议旨在解决极化电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。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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.