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 …

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 …

Few-mode field quantization of arbitrary electromagnetic spectral densities

I Medina, FJ García-Vidal, AI Fernández-Domínguez… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We develop a framework that provides a few-mode master equation description of the
interaction between a single quantum emitter and an arbitrary electromagnetic environment …

Macroscopic QED for quantum nanophotonics: emitter-centered modes as a minimal basis for multiemitter problems

J Feist, AI Fernández-Domínguez, FJ García-Vidal - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
We present an overview of the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics from a
quantum nanophotonics perspective. Particularly, we focus our attention on three aspects of …

A theoretical perspective on molecular polaritonics

M Sánchez-Barquilla, AI Fernández-Domínguez… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In the past decade, much theoretical research has focused on studying the strong coupling
between organic molecules (or quantum emitters, in general) and light modes. The …

Dynamics of disordered Tavis–Cummings and Holstein–Tavis–Cummings models

K Sun, C Dou, MF Gelin, Y Zhao - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
By employing the time-dependent variational principle and the versatile multi-D 2 Davydov
trial states, in combination with the Green's function method, we study the dynamics of the …

Coupling molecular systems with plasmonic nanocavities: A quantum dynamics approach

Z Jamshidi, K Kargar, D Mendive-Tapia… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic nanoparticles have the capacity to confine electromagnetic fields to the
subwavelength regime and provide strong coupling with few or even a single emitter at room …

Nanocavities for molecular optomechanics: Their fundamental description and applications

P Roelli, H Hu, E Verhagen, S Reich, C Galland - ACS photonics, 2024 - ACS Publications
Vibrational Raman scattering─ a process where light exchanges energy with a molecular
vibration through inelastic scattering─ is most fundamentally described in a quantum …

Plexcitonic quantum light emission from nanoparticle-on-mirror cavities

R Sáez-Blázquez, Á Cuartero-González, J Feist… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
We investigate the quantum-optical properties of the light emitted by a nanoparticle-on-
mirror cavity filled with a single quantum emitter. Inspired by recent experiments, we model a …

Single-photon source over the terahertz regime

C Groiseau, AI Fernández-Domínguez, D Martín-Cano… - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
We present a proposal for a tunable source of single photons operating in the terahertz
(THz) regime. This scheme transforms incident visible photons into quantum THz radiation …