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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Hidden triplet states at hybrid organic–inorganic interfaces

G Bao, R Deng, D **, X Liu - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Triplet states have been widely studied in phosphorescent molecules, lanthanide complexes
and triplet–triplet annihilation systems, in which they have a critical role in energy transfer …

Vibration-cavity polariton chemistry and dynamics

AD Dunkelberger, BS Simpkins… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Molecular polaritons result from light-matter coupling between optical resonances and
molecular electronic or vibrational transitions. When the coupling is strong enough, new …

Theoretical challenges in polaritonic chemistry

J Fregoni, FJ Garcia-Vidal, J Feist - ACS photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polaritonic chemistry exploits strong light–matter coupling between molecules and confined
electromagnetic field modes to enable new chemical reactivities. In systems displaying this …

Thermal disorder prevents the suppression of ultra-fast photochemistry in the strong light-matter coupling regime

A Dutta, V Tiainen, I Sokolovskii, L Duarte… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Strong coupling between molecules and confined light modes of optical cavities to form
polaritons can alter photochemistry, but the origin of this effect remains largely unknown …

Multi-scale molecular dynamics simulations of enhanced energy transfer in organic molecules under strong coupling

I Sokolovskii, RH Tichauer, D Morozov, J Feist… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Exciton transport can be enhanced in the strong coupling regime where excitons hybridize
with confined light modes to form polaritons. Because polaritons have group velocity, their …