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 …

Theoretical advances in polariton chemistry and molecular cavity quantum electrodynamics

A Mandal, MAD Taylor, BM Weight… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
When molecules are coupled to an optical cavity, new light–matter hybrid states, so-called
polaritons, are formed due to quantum light–matter interactions. With the experimental …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Cavity quantum materials

F Schlawin, DM Kennes, MA Sentef - Applied Physics Reviews, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The emergent field of cavity quantum materials bridges collective many-body phenomena in
solid state platforms with strong light–matter coupling in cavity quantum electrodynamics …

Understanding polaritonic chemistry from ab initio quantum electrodynamics

M Ruggenthaler, D Sidler, A Rubio - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this review, we present the theoretical foundations and first-principles frameworks to
describe quantum matter within quantum electrodynamics (QED) in the low-energy regime …

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 …

Light–matter interactions in quantum nanophotonic devices

A González-Tudela, A Reiserer… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Nanophotonics offers opportunities for engineering and exploiting the quantum properties of
light by integrating quantum emitters into nanostructures, and offering reliable paths to …

Cavity-mediated thermal control of metal-to-insulator transition in 1T-TaS2

G Jarc, SY Mathengattil, A Montanaro, F Giusti… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Placing quantum materials into optical cavities provides a unique platform for controlling
quantum cooperative properties of matter, by both weak and strong light–matter coupling …

Spin-correlated exciton–polaritons in a van der Waals magnet

F Dirnberger, R Bushati, B Datta, A Kumar… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Strong coupling between light and elementary excitations is emerging as a powerful tool to
engineer the properties of solid-state systems. Spin-correlated excitations that couple …

Molecular polaritons for chemistry, photonics and quantum technologies

B **ang, W **ong - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Molecular polaritons are quasiparticles resulting from the hybridization between molecular
and photonic modes. These composite entities, bearing characteristics inherited from both …