Abstract:
Control and understanding of light and matter coupling are ubiquitous and of fundamental importance in modern science and technology. Recent developments in materials, photonics and condensed matter physics have opened doors to exciting new opportunities to create light-matter coupled systems unavailable before, which on one hand may provide an experimental test ground of novel phenomena, and on the other hand may serve as a bridge between such phenomena and better technology for the future. We will discuss a few topics in this theme aimed at extreme quantum photonics, controlling chemical reactions, and strongly correlated phenomena with the potential of scalable quantum computing.