Light-induced emergent phenomena in 2D materials and topological materials

C Bao, P Tang, D Sun, S Zhou - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Light–matter interaction in 2D and topological materials provides a fascinating control knob
for inducing emergent, non-equilibrium properties and achieving new functionalities in the …

[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 …

[BOOK][B] The Jaynes–Cummings model and its descendants: modern research directions

J Larson, T Mavrogordatos - 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The Jaynes–Cummings Model (JCM) has recently been receiving increased attention as
one of the simplest, yet intricately nonlinear, models of quantum physics. Emphasising the …

Quantum electrodynamic control of matter: Cavity-enhanced ferroelectric phase transition

Y Ashida, A İmamoğlu, J Faist, D Jaksch, A Cavalleri… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
The light-matter interaction can be utilized to qualitatively alter physical properties of
materials. Recent theoretical and experimental studies have explored this possibility of …

Molecular orbital theory in cavity QED environments

RR Riso, TS Haugland, E Ronca, H Koch - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Coupling between molecules and vacuum photon fields inside an optical cavity has proven
to be an effective way to engineer molecular properties, in particular reactivity. To ease the …

Variational lang–firsov approach plus møller–plesset perturbation theory with applications to ab initio polariton chemistry

ZH Cui, A Mandal, DR Reichman - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We apply the Lang–Firsov (LF) transformation to electron–boson coupled Hamiltonians and
variationally optimize the transformation parameters and molecular orbital coefficients to …

Making ab initio QED functional (s): Nonperturbative and photon-free effective frameworks for strong light–matter coupling

C Schäfer, F Buchholz, M Penz… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Strong light–matter coupling provides a promising path for the control of quantum matter
where the latter is routinely described from first principles. However, combining the …

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 …

Toward molecular chiral polaritons

DG Baranov, C Schäfer, MV Gorkunov - ACS Photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
Coupling between light and material excitations underlies a wide range of optical
phenomena. Polaritons are eigenstates of a coupled system with a hybridized wave …