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| 演 題 | 「Manipulating Matter by Strong Coupling to the Vacuum Field」 |
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| 日 時 | 2023年04月17日(月) 16:00 より 17:30 まで |
| 講演者 | Prof. Thomas W. Ebbesen(USIAS & ISIS, University of Strasbourg, France) |
| 場 所 | 分子科学研究所 研究棟201 |
| 概 要 | Over the past decade, the possibility of manipulating material and chemical properties by using hybrid light-matter states has stimulated considerable interest [1,2]. Such hybrid light-matter states can be generated by strongly coupling the material to the spatially confined electromagnetic field of an optical resonator. Most importantly, this occurs even in the dark because the coupling involves the zero-point electromagnetic fluctuations of the resonator, the vacuum field. After introducing the fundamental concepts, examples of modified properties of strongly coupled systems, such as magnetism, charge and energy transport, and chemical reactivity will be given to illustrate the broad potential of light-matter states.
References (reviews):
Thomas W. Ebbesen is a physical chemist born in Oslo, Norway. He was educated in the United States and France, receiving his bachelor degree from Oberlin College (USA) and his PhD from the Curie University in Paris. He then did research in both the US and Japan, most notably at NEC, before returning to France in 1999 to help build a new institute (ISIS) at the University of Strasbourg. He is currently the head of the Center for Frontier Research in Chemistry and the Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Studies (www.usias.fr). He holds the chair of physical chemistry of light-matter interactions. The author of many papers and patents, Ebbesen has received numerous awards for his pioneering research including the 2014 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience. |
| お問合せ先 | 大森 賢治（光分子科学研究領域） 倉持 光、瀬川 泰知（2023年度コロキウム委員） |
