Toward a new era of SERS and TERS at the nanometer scale: From fundamentals to innovative applications

T Itoh, M Procházka, ZC Dong, W Ji… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS)
have opened a variety of exciting research fields. However, although a vast number of …

Theoretical challenges in polaritonic chemistry

J Fregoni, FJ Garcia-Vidal, J Feist - ACS photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polaritonic chemistry exploits strong light–matter coupling between molecules and confined
electromagnetic field modes to enable new chemical reactivities. In systems displaying this …

Single-photon nonlinearity at room temperature

AV Zasedatelev, AV Baranikov, D Sannikov, D Urbonas… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The recent progress in nanotechnology, and single-molecule spectroscopy,–paves the way
for emergent cost-effective organic quantum optical technologies with potential applications …

Shining light on the microscopic resonant mechanism responsible for cavity-mediated chemical reactivity

C Schäfer, J Flick, E Ronca, P Narang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Strong light–matter interaction in cavity environments is emerging as a promising approach
to control chemical reactions in a non-intrusive and efficient manner. The underlying …

Molecular polaritons for controlling chemistry with quantum optics

F Herrera, J Owrutsky - The Journal of chemical physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This is a tutorial-style introduction to the field of molecular polaritons. We describe the basic
physical principles and consequences of strong light–matter coupling common to molecular …

Plasmonic phenomena in molecular junctions: principles and applications

M Wang, T Wang, OS Ojambati, TJ Duffin… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Molecular junctions are building blocks for constructing future nanoelectronic devices that
enable the investigation of a broad range of electronic transport properties within nanoscale …

Relevance of the quadratic diamagnetic and self-polarization terms in cavity quantum electrodynamics

C Schäfer, M Ruggenthaler, V Rokaj, A Rubio - ACS photonics, 2020 - ACS Publications
Experiments at the interface of quantum optics and chemistry have revealed that strong
coupling between light and matter can substantially modify the chemical and physical …

Quantum nanophotonics in two-dimensional materials

A Reserbat-Plantey, I Epstein, I Torre, AT Costa… - Acs …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The field of two-dimensional (2D) materials-based nanophotonics has been growing at a
rapid pace, triggered by the ability to design nanophotonic systems with in situ control …

Intermolecular interactions in optical cavities: An ab initio QED study

TS Haugland, C Schäfer, E Ronca, A Rubio… - The Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Intermolecular bonds are weak compared to covalent bonds, but they are strong enough to
influence the properties of large molecular systems. In this work, we investigate how strong …

Strong coupling of emitters to single plasmonic nanoparticles: exciton-induced transparency and Rabi splitting

M Pelton, SD Storm, H Leng - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Strong coupling between plasmons in metal nanoparticles and single excitons in molecules
or semiconductor nanomaterials has recently attracted considerable experimental effort for …