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 …

Ultrastrong coupling between light and matter

A Frisk Kockum, A Miranowicz, S De Liberato… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Ultrastrong coupling between light and matter has, in the past decade, transitioned from a
theoretical idea to an experimental reality. It is a new regime of quantum light–matter …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Overcoming the energy gap law in near-infrared OLEDs by exciton–vibration decoupling

YC Wei, SF Wang, Y Hu, LS Liao, DG Chen… - nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The development of high-performance near-infrared organic light-emitting diodes is
hindered by strong non-radiative processes as governed by the energy gap law. Here, we …

Cavity QED with quantum gases: new paradigms in many-body physics

F Mivehvar, F Piazza, T Donner, H Ritsch - Advances in Physics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
We review the recent developments and the current status in the field of quantum-gas cavity
QED. Since the first experimental demonstration of atomic self-ordering in a system …

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 …

Hybrid light–matter states in a molecular and material science perspective

TW Ebbesen - Accounts of chemical research, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The notion that light and matter states can be hybridized the way s and p
orbitals are mixed is a concept that is not familiar to most chemists and material scientists …

Molecular chemistry in cavity strong coupling

K Hirai, JA Hutchison, H Uji-i - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The coherent exchange of energy between materials and optical fields leads to strong light–
matter interactions and so-called polaritonic states with intriguing properties, halfway …