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 …

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 …

Unlocking the out-of-plane dimension for photonic bound states in the continuum to achieve maximum optical chirality

L Kühner, FJ Wendisch, AA Antonov, J Bürger… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
The realization of lossless metasurfaces with true chirality crucially requires the fabrication of
three-dimensional structures, constraining experimental feasibility and hampering practical …

Nonlinear chiral metaphotonics: a perspective

K Koshelev, P Tonkaev, Y Kivshar - Advanced Photonics, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We review the physics and some applications of photonic structures designed for the
realization of strong nonlinear chiroptical response. We pay much attention to the recent …

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 …

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 …

Hexagonal boron nitride nanophotonics: a record-breaking material for the ultraviolet and visible spectral ranges

DV Grudinin, GA Ermolaev, DG Baranov… - Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
A global trend towards miniaturization and multiwavelength performance of nanophotonic
devices drives research on novel phenomena, such as bound states in the continuum and …

Two-dimensional chiral metasurfaces obtained by geometrically simple meta-atom rotations

D Gryb, FJ Wendisch, A Aigner, T Gölz, A Tittl… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional chiral metasurfaces seem to contradict Lord Kelvin's geometric definition
of chirality since they can be made to coincide by performing rotational operations …

Advances on broadband and resonant chiral metasurfaces

QM Deng, X Li, MX Hu, FJ Li, X Li, ZL Deng - npj Nanophotonics, 2024 - nature.com
Chirality describes mirror symmetry breaking in geometric structures or certain physical
quantities. The interaction between chiral structure and chiral light provides a rich collection …

Exploring van der Waals materials with high anisotropy: geometrical and optical approaches

AS Slavich, GA Ermolaev, MK Tatmyshevskiy… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
The emergence of van der Waals (vdW) materials resulted in the discovery of their high
optical, mechanical, and electronic anisotropic properties, immediately enabling countless …