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 …

Strongly correlated electron–photon systems

J Bloch, A Cavalleri, V Galitski, M Hafezi, A Rubio - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
An important goal of modern condensed-matter physics involves the search for states of
matter with emergent properties and desirable functionalities. Although the tools for material …

Moiré heterostructures as a condensed-matter quantum simulator

DM Kennes, M Claassen, L Xian, A Georges, AJ Millis… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Twisted van der Waals heterostructures have latterly received prominent attention for their
many remarkable experimental properties and the promise that they hold for realizing …

Light-induced emergent phenomena in 2D materials and topological materials

C Bao, P Tang, D Sun, S Zhou - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Light–matter interaction in 2D and topological materials provides a fascinating control knob
for inducing emergent, non-equilibrium properties and achieving new functionalities in the …

Magneto-optics in a van der Waals magnet tuned by self-hybridized polaritons

F Dirnberger, J Quan, R Bushati, GM Diederich… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Controlling quantum materials with light is of fundamental and technological importance. By
utilizing the strong coupling of light and matter in optical cavities,–, recent studies were able …

[HTML][HTML] Cavity quantum materials

F Schlawin, DM Kennes, MA Sentef - Applied Physics Reviews, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The emergent field of cavity quantum materials bridges collective many-body phenomena in
solid state platforms with strong light–matter coupling in cavity quantum electrodynamics …

Cavity QED with quantum gases: new paradigms in many-body physics

F Mivehvar, F Piazza, T Donner, H Ritsch - Advances in Physics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
We review the recent developments and the current status in the field of quantum-gas cavity
QED. Since the first experimental demonstration of atomic self-ordering in a system …

Engineering crystal structures with light

AS Disa, TF Nova, A Cavalleri - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
The crystal structure of a solid largely dictates its electronic, optical and mechanical
properties. Indeed, much of the exploration of quantum materials in recent years including …

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 …

Ultrastrong coupling between light and matter

A Frisk Kockum, A Miranowicz, S De Liberato… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Ultrastrong coupling between light and matter has, in the past decade, transitioned from a
theoretical idea to an experimental reality. It is a new regime of quantum light–matter …