The interaction between molecular electronic transitions and electromagnetic fields can be
enlarged to the point where distinct hybrid light–matter states, polaritons, emerge. The …

BACKGROUND One of the most important phenomena in cavity quantum electrodynamics
(cQED) is the so-called strong coupling regime, which appears when the interaction …

Reaction-rate modifications for chemical processes due to strong coupling between reactant
molecular vibrations and the cavity vacuum have been reported; however, no currently …

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 …

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 …

Molecules are the building blocks of all of nature's functional components, serving as the
machinery that captures, stores and releases energy or converts it into useful work …

Molecular polaritons are the optical excitations which emerge when molecular transitions
interact strongly with confined electromagnetic fields. Increasing interest in the hybrid …

It is possible to modify the chemical and physical properties of molecules, not only through
chemical modifications but also by coupling molecules strongly to light. More intriguingly …

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 …

Many chemical methods have been developed to favor a particular product in
transformations of compounds that have two or more reactive sites. We explored a different …