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 …

Polariton condensates for classical and quantum computing

A Kavokin, TCH Liew, C Schneider… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Polariton lasers emit coherent monochromatic light through a spontaneous emission
process. As a rare example of a system in which Bose–Einstein condensation and …

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 …

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 …

Multi-scale molecular dynamics simulations of enhanced energy transfer in organic molecules under strong coupling

I Sokolovskii, RH Tichauer, D Morozov, J Feist… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Exciton transport can be enhanced in the strong coupling regime where excitons hybridize
with confined light modes to form polaritons. Because polaritons have group velocity, their …

Polaritonic chemistry with organic molecules

J Feist, J Galego, FJ Garcia-Vidal - ACS Photonics, 2018 - ACS Publications
We present an overview of the general concepts of polaritonic chemistry with organic
molecules, ie, the manipulation of chemical structure that can be achieved through strong …

All-optical switching based on interacting exciton polaritons in self-assembled perovskite microwires

J Feng, J Wang, A Fieramosca, R Bao, J Zhao, R Su… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Ultrafast all-optical switches and integrated circuits call for giant optical nonlinearity to
minimize energy consumption and footprint. Exciton polaritons underpin intrinsic strong …

Room-temperature superfluidity in a polariton condensate

G Lerario, A Fieramosca, F Barachati, D Ballarini… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Superfluidity—the suppression of scattering in a quantum fluid at velocities below a critical
value—is one of the most striking manifestations of the collective behaviour typical of Bose …

Ultrafast imaging of polariton propagation and interactions

D Xu, A Mandal, JM Baxter, SW Cheng, I Lee… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Semiconductor excitations can hybridize with cavity photons to form exciton-polaritons (EPs)
with remarkable properties, including light-like energy flow combined with matter-like …

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 …