Various coupling regimes between the light field and quantum emitters (QE) are of current interest. This includes the subject of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics, which is related to strong atom-field coupling effects in microresonators. Resonant chiral and resonant magnetoelectric (ME) responses are of the topical interest in modern metamaterial science. Chiral and ME meta-atoms are considered as quantum systems. A chiral QE is one whose transition between its ground and excited levels is quantified by a combination of collinear electric and magnetic dipole moments. In chiral polaritonics, the basic physical concepts underlying the chirality of matter and the chirality of electromagnetic (EM) field are analyzed. An extension of the ME effect to the dynamical region is an important concept that employs the ME susceptibility to produce unconventional EM responses. With symmetry breaking effects inside the ME resonator, nontrivial symmetry breakings can be observed in the vacuum region near this resonator. This determines the properties of ME near fields. Rotating fields of ME particles can generate changes in momentum of zero-point fluctuations. Due to the ME energy, the entire EM continuum is strongly modified both in the near-field and far-field regions. The fundamental study of the interaction of a resonant point ME scatterer with EM radiation constitutes a new field of research, which we call ME quantum electrodynamics.
The purpose of this session is to discuss various aspects of field-matter interaction in metamaterial structures from the point of view of macroscopic effects of quantum electrodynamics.

Current list of confirmed invited speakers

• Hrvoje Petek, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Naoto Nagaosa, The University of Tokyo, RIKEN, Japan
• Tony Low, University of Minnesota, USA
• Stefan Buhmann, Universität Kassel, Germany
• Akbar Salam, Wake Forest University, USA
• Weibo Gao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Can-Ming Hu, University of Manitoba, Canada
• Gerrit Bauer, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands & Tohoku University, Japan
• Zubin Jacob, Purdue University, USA
• Michael Tobar, University of Western Australia, Australia
• Yong Chen, Purdue University, USA
• Akihiko Sekine, Fujitsu Research, Fujitsu Ltd, Japan
• Ido Kaminer, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• Nicholas Rivera, Cornell University, USA
• Jamal Berakdar, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
• Junichiro Kono, Rice University, USA
• Yaroslav Blanter, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
• Angel Rubio, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Germany
• Benjamin Lawrie, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Javier Garcia de Abajo, ICFO - Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Spain
• Youtarou Takahashi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
• Veronika Sunko, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Peng Yan, Univ. of Electronic Sci. and Technol. of China, China
• Shuichi Murakami, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Alexander Poddubny, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
• Johannes Feist, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
• Vladimir Yudson, HSE University, Russia
• Tao Yu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
• Alexander Balatsky, University of Connecticut, USA
• Yuri Kivshar, Australian National University, Australia
• María José Martínez-Pérez, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
• Aki Kitaori, The University of Tokyo, Japan
• Dmitry Efimkin, Monash University, Australia
• Sadamichi Maekawa, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Japan
• Hiromi Okamoto, Institute for Molecular Science, Japan
• Moshe Goldstein, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Nir Rotenberg, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
• Yafis Barlas, University of Nevada, USA
• Mohammad Hafezi, University of Maryland, USA
• Inigo Liberal, University of Navarra (UPNA), Spain
• Piotr Garbacz, University of Warsaw, Poland
• Kimball Milton, University of Oklahoma, USA
• Enrico Ronca, University of Perugia, Italy
• Jeremy Bourhill, The University of Western Australia, Australia
• Eugene Kamenetskii, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
  This PIERS session is organized as part of an initiative to support the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ 2025). The IYQ 2025 (https://quantum2025.org/en/) is proclaimed by the United Nations in recognition of 100 years of development of quantum science. The organizer of the session is encouraged by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, to celebrate and promote IYQ at this meeting.