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 …

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 …

Picocavities: a primer

JJ Baumberg - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Picocavities are sub-nanometer-scale optical cavities recently found to trap light, which are
formed by single-atom defects on metallic facets. Here, we develop simple picocavity …

Recent advances in quantum nanophotonics: plexcitonic and vibro-polaritonic strong coupling and its biomedical and chemical applications

Y Kim, A Barulin, S Kim, LP Lee, I Kim - Nanophotonics, 2023 - degruyter.com
The fundamental understanding of molecular quantum electrodynamics via the strong light–
matter interactions between a nanophotonic cavity and quantum emitters opens various …

Ab initio molecular cavity quantum electrodynamics simulations using machine learning models

D Hu, P Huo - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2023 - ACS Publications
We present a mixed quantum-classical simulation of polariton dynamics for molecule–cavity
hybrid systems. In particular, we treat the coupled electronic–photonic degrees of freedom …

Tutorial on nonperturbative cavity quantum electrodynamics: is the Jaynes–Cummings model still relevant?

D De Bernardis, A Mercurio… - Journal of the Optical …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In this tutorial review, we briefly discuss the role that the Jaynes–Cummings model occupies
in present-day research in cavity quantum electrodynamics with a particular focus on the so …

Reciprocal asymptotically decoupled Hamiltonian for cavity quantum electrodynamics

MAD Taylor, BM Weight, P Huo - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We develop a theoretical framework for describing light-matter interactions in cavity quantum
electrodynamics (QED), optimized for efficient convergence at arbitrarily strong coupling …

Can we observe nonperturbative vacuum shifts in cavity QED?

R Sáez-Blázquez, D De Bernardis, J Feist, P Rabl - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We address the fundamental question of whether or not it is possible to achieve conditions
under which the coupling of a single dipole to a strongly confined electromagnetic vacuum …

Influence of molecular structure on the coupling strength to a plasmonic nanoparticle and hot carrier generation

R Zaier, M Bancerek, K Kluczyk-Korch, TJ Antosiewicz - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Strong coupling between metal nanoparticles and molecules mixes their excitations,
creating new eigenstates with modified properties such as altered chemical reactivity …