The rise and current status of polaritonic photochemistry and photophysics

R Bhuyan, J Mony, O Kotov, GW Castellanos… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The interaction between molecular electronic transitions and electromagnetic fields can be
enlarged to the point where distinct hybrid light–matter states, polaritons, emerge. The …

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 …

Advanced terahertz refractive sensing and fingerprint recognition through metasurface‐excited surface waves

Z Zhang, Z Wang, C Zhang, Z Yao, S Zhang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
High‐sensitive metasurface‐based sensors are essential for effective substance detection
and insightful bio‐interaction studies, which compress light in subwavelength volumes to …

Interface nano-optics with van der Waals polaritons

Q Zhang, G Hu, W Ma, P Li, A Krasnok, R Hillenbrand… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Polaritons are hybrid excitations of matter and photons. In recent years, polaritons in van der
Waals nanomaterials—known as van der Waals polaritons—have shown great promise to …

[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 …

Cavity-enhanced energy transport in molecular systems

G Sandik, J Feist, FJ García-Vidal, T Schwartz - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Molecules are the building blocks of all of nature's functional components, serving as the
machinery that captures, stores and releases energy or converts it into useful work …

Extreme light confinement and control in low-symmetry phonon-polaritonic crystals

E Galiffi, G Carini, X Ni, G Álvarez-Pérez… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Polaritons are a hybrid class of quasiparticles originating from the strong and resonant
coupling between light and matter excitations. Recent years have witnessed a surge of …

Ghost hyperbolic surface polaritons in bulk anisotropic crystals

W Ma, G Hu, D Hu, R Chen, T Sun, X Zhang, Q Dai… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Polaritons in anisotropic materials result in exotic optical features, which can provide
opportunities to control light at the nanoscale,,,,,,,,–. So far these polaritons have been …

Real-space nanoimaging of hyperbolic shear polaritons in a monoclinic crystal

G Hu, W Ma, D Hu, J Wu, C Zheng, K Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Various optical crystals possess permittivity components of opposite signs along different
principal directions in the mid-infrared regime, exhibiting exotic anisotropic phonon …

Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials

Y Wu, J Duan, W Ma, Q Ou, P Li… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Polaritons, originating from the interactions between photons and material excitations, have
attracted attention because of their strong field compression and deeply subdiffractional …