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 …

Cavity-enhanced energy transport in molecular systems

G Sandik, J Feist, FJ García-Vidal, T Schwartz - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
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 …

From enhanced diffusion to ultrafast ballistic motion of hybrid light–matter excitations

M Balasubrahmaniyam, A Simkhovich, A Golombek… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Transport of excitons and charge carriers in molecular systems can be enhanced by
coherent coupling to photons, giving rise to the formation of hybrid excitations known as …

Molecular polaritonics: Chemical dynamics under strong light–matter coupling

TE Li, B Cui, JE Subotnik, A Nitzan - Annual review of physical …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Chemical manifestations of strong light–matter coupling have recently been a subject of
intense experimental and theoretical studies. Here we review the present status of this field …

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 …

Polariton chemistry: controlling molecular dynamics with optical cavities

RF Ribeiro, LA Martínez-Martínez, M Du… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular polaritons are the optical excitations which emerge when molecular transitions
interact strongly with confined electromagnetic fields. Increasing interest in the hybrid …

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 …

Novel nanostructures and materials for strong light–matter interactions

DG Baranov, M Wersall, J Cuadra, TJ Antosiewicz… - Acs …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Quantum mechanical interactions between electromagnetic radiation and matter underlie a
broad spectrum of optical phenomena. Strong light-matter interactions result in the well …

[HTML][HTML] Reproducibility of cavity-enhanced chemical reaction rates in the vibrational strong coupling regime

MV Imperatore, JB Asbury, NC Giebink - The Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
One of the most exciting and debated aspects of polariton chemistry is the possibility that
chemical reactions can be catalyzed by vibrational strong coupling (VSC) with confined …

Tuning the coherent propagation of organic exciton‐polaritons through dark state delocalization

R Pandya, A Ashoka, K Georgiou, J Sung… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
While there have been numerous reports of long‐range polariton transport at room‐
temperature in organic cavities, the spatiotemporal evolution of the propagation is scarcely …