Manipulating matter by strong coupling to vacuum fields

FJ Garcia-Vidal, C Ciuti, TW Ebbesen - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND One of the most important phenomena in cavity quantum electrodynamics
(cQED) is the so-called strong coupling regime, which appears when the interaction …

Light–matter interactions in hybrid material metasurfaces

J Guan, JE Park, S Deng, MJH Tan, J Hu… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
This Review focuses on the integration of plasmonic and dielectric metasurfaces with
emissive or stimuli-responsive materials for manipulating light–matter interactions at the …

Chemistry under vibrational strong coupling

K Nagarajan, A Thomas… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, the possibility of manipulating chemistry and material properties using
hybrid light–matter states has stimulated considerable interest. Hybrid light–matter states …

Breakdown of topological protection by cavity vacuum fields in the integer quantum Hall effect

F Appugliese, J Enkner, GL Paravicini-Bagliani, M Beck… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The prospect of controlling the electronic properties of materials via the vacuum fields of
cavity electromagnetic resonators is emerging as one of the frontiers of condensed matter …

Ultrastrong coupling regimes of light-matter interaction

P Forn-Díaz, L Lamata, E Rico, J Kono, E Solano - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
Recent experiments have demonstrated that light and matter can mix together to an extreme
degree, and previously uncharted regimes of light-matter interactions are currently being …

Magneto-transport controlled by Landau polariton states

GL Paravicini-Bagliani, F Appugliese, E Richter… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Hybrid excitations, called polaritons, emerge in systems with strong light–matter coupling.
Usually, they dominate the linear and nonlinear optical properties with applications in …

Large enhancement of ferromagnetism under a collective strong coupling of YBCO nanoparticles

A Thomas, E Devaux, K Nagarajan, G Rogez… - Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Light–Matter strong coupling in the vacuum limit has been shown, over the past decade, to
enhance material properties. Oxide nanoparticles are known to exhibit weak ferromagnetism …

On the role of symmetry in vibrational strong coupling: the case of charge‐transfer complexation

Y Pang, A Thomas, K Nagarajan… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
It is well known that symmetry plays a key role in chemical reactivity. Here we explore its role
in vibrational strong coupling (VSC) for a charge‐transfer (CT) complexation reaction. By …

Theoretical methods for ultrastrong light–matter interactions

A Le Boité - Advanced Quantum Technologies, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This article reviews theoretical methods developed in the last decade to understand cavity
quantum electrodynamics in the ultrastrong‐coupling regime, where the strength of the light …

Weakened topological protection of the quantum Hall effect in a cavity

V Rokaj, J Wang, J Sous, M Penz, M Ruggenthaler… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We study the quantum Hall effect in a two-dimensional homogeneous electron gas coupled
to a quantum cavity field. As initially pointed out by Kohn, Galilean invariance for a …