A new Focus Session titled “Chiral Material Platforms: New Horizons for Quantum Photonic Applications” has been established within the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Materials Physics (DMP), co-organized by Ufuk Kilic and Eva Schubert (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), together with Christos Argyropoulos (Pennsylvania State University). These co-leaders are present or past members of Nebraska’s Emergent Quantum Materials and Technologies (EQUATE) project, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).
This Focus Session brings together leading researchers working at the forefront of chiral nanophotonics and optical physics, with an emphasis on emerging directions in quantum photonics enabled by chiral light–matter interactions.
The establishment of a new APS Focus Session is a competitive process, reflecting the growing importance of chirality-driven phenomena in photonics and quantum materials. The session aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and provide a platform for advancing fundamental understanding and technological applications in this rapidly evolving field.
Invited speakers for this APS 2026 March Meeting Focus Session were Andrea Alù (City University of New York), Feng Pan (Stanford University), Ventsislav K. Valev (University of Bath), and Zhenrong Zhang (Baylor University) – with two tracks for the session:
- Chiral Quantum Photonics: From Symmetry-Driven Interactions to Quantum-Level Control
- Chiral Hybrid Metamaterials: Nonlinear, Topological, and Multifunctional Architectures
This initiative is sponsored by the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Materials Physics (DMP), and the organizers gratefully acknowledge support from the NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).
