Light–matter interactions with photonic quasiparticles

N Rivera, I Kaminer - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Interactions between light and matter play an instrumental role in spectroscopy, sensing,
quantum information processing and lasers. In most of these applications, light is considered …

Strong light-matter coupling in quantum chemistry and quantum photonics

J Flick, N Rivera, P Narang - Nanophotonics, 2018 - degruyter.com
In this article, we review strong light-matter coupling at the interface of materials science,
quantum chemistry, and quantum photonics. The control of light and heat at thermodynamic …

[HTML][HTML] Octopus, a computational framework for exploring light-driven phenomena and quantum dynamics in extended and finite systems

N Tancogne-Dejean, MJT Oliveira… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Over the last few years, extraordinary advances in experimental and theoretical tools have
allowed us to monitor and control matter at short time and atomic scales with a high degree …

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 …

Ab initio nonrelativistic quantum electrodynamics: Bridging quantum chemistry and quantum optics from weak to strong coupling

C Schäfer, M Ruggenthaler, A Rubio - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
By applying the Born-Huang expansion, originally developed for coupled nucleus-electron
systems, to the full nucleus-electron-photon Hamiltonian of nonrelativistic quantum …

Polaritonic coupled-cluster theory

U Mordovina, C Bungey, H Appel, PJ Knowles… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We develop coupled-cluster theory for systems of electrons strongly coupled to photons,
providing a promising theoretical tool in polaritonic chemistry with a perspective of …

Light-matter interactions within the Ehrenfest–Maxwell–Pauli–Kohn–Sham framework: fundamentals, implementation, and nano-optical applications

R Jestädt, M Ruggenthaler, MJT Oliveira… - Advances in …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years significant experimental advances in nano-scale fabrication techniques and
in available light sources have opened the possibility to study a vast set of novel light-matter …

Reduced density-matrix approach to strong matter-photon interaction

F Buchholz, I Theophilou, SEB Nielsen… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We present a first-principles approach to electronic many-body systems strongly coupled to
cavity modes in terms of matter–photon one-body reduced density matrices. The theory is …

Real-time solutions of coupled Ehrenfest-Maxwell-Pauli-Kohn-Sham equations: fundamentals, implementation, and nano-optical applications

R Jestädt, M Ruggenthaler, MJT Oliveira… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
We present the theoretical foundations and the implementation details of a density-
functional approach for coupled photons, electrons, and effective nuclei in non-relativistic …

[CARTE][B] Polaritonic Chemistry: Manipulating Molecular Structure Through Strong Light–Matter Coupling

JG Pascual - 2020 - books.google.com
Polaritonic chemistry is an emergent interdisciplinary field in which the strong interaction of
organic molecules with confined electromagnetic field modes is exploited in order to …