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 …

A theoretical perspective on molecular polaritonics

M Sánchez-Barquilla, AI Fernández-Domínguez… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In the past decade, much theoretical research has focused on studying the strong coupling
between organic molecules (or quantum emitters, in general) and light modes. The …

Open quantum systems with local and collective incoherent processes: Efficient numerical simulations using permutational invariance

N Shammah, S Ahmed, N Lambert, S De Liberato… - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
The permutational invariance of identical two-level systems allows for an exponential
reduction in the computational resources required to study the Lindblad dynamics of …

Strong coupling in chiral cavities: nonperturbative framework for enantiomer discrimination

RR Riso, L Grazioli, E Ronca, T Giovannini, H Koch - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
The development of efficient techniques to distinguish mirror images of chiral molecules
(enantiomers) is very important in both chemistry and physics. Enantiomers share most …

Non-hermitian anharmonicity induces single-photon emission

A Ben-Asher, AI Fernández-Domínguez, J Feist - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Single-photon sources are in high demand for quantum information applications. A
paradigmatic way to achieve single-photon emission is through anharmonicity in the energy …

Phase-engineered photon correlations in weakly coupled nanofiber cavity QED

Z Wu, J Li, Y Wu - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
A recent experiment [HS Han, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 073604 (2021) 0031-9007
10.1103/PhysRevLett. 127.073604; see also accompanying online supplemental material] …

Ensemble-induced strong light-matter coupling of a single quantum emitter

S Schütz, J Schachenmayer, D Hagenmüller… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We discuss a technique to strongly couple a single target quantum emitter to a cavity mode,
which is enabled by virtual excitations of a nearby mesoscopic ensemble of emitters. A …

Electron-assisted probing of polaritonic light–matter states

J Abad-Arredondo, AI Fernández-Domínguez - Nanophotonics, 2024 - degruyter.com
Thanks to their exceptional spatial, spectral and temporal resolution, highly-coherent free-
electron beams have emerged as powerful probes for material excitations, enabling their …

Plexcitonic quantum light emission from nanoparticle-on-mirror cavities

R Sáez-Blázquez, A Cuartero-González, J Feist… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
We investigate the quantum-optical properties of the light emitted by a nanoparticle-on-
mirror cavity filled with a single quantum emitter. Inspired by recent experiments, we model a …

Vacuum-induced quantum-beat-enabled photon antibunching

Z Wu, J Li, Y Wu - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
Vacuum-induced coupling (VIC), arising from the quantum interference between the
spontaneous emission pathways from the excited doublet to a common ground state, has …