Theoretical advances in polariton chemistry and molecular cavity quantum electrodynamics

A Mandal, MAD Taylor, BM Weight… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
When molecules are coupled to an optical cavity, new light–matter hybrid states, so-called
polaritons, are formed due to quantum light–matter interactions. With the experimental …

The rise and current status of polaritonic photochemistry and photophysics

R Bhuyan, J Mony, O Kotov, GW Castellanos… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The interaction between molecular electronic transitions and electromagnetic fields can be
enlarged to the point where distinct hybrid light–matter states, polaritons, emerge. The …

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 …

Light–matter interactions in quantum nanophotonic devices

A González-Tudela, A Reiserer… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Nanophotonics offers opportunities for engineering and exploiting the quantum properties of
light by integrating quantum emitters into nanostructures, and offering reliable paths to …

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 …

Molecular polaritons for chemistry, photonics and quantum technologies

B Xiang, W Xiong - 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 …

Polariton localization and dispersion properties of disordered quantum emitters in multimode microcavities

G Engelhardt, J Cao - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
Experiments have demonstrated that the strong light-matter coupling in polaritonic
microcavities significantly enhances transport. Motivated by these experiments, we have …

Engineering random spin models with atoms in a high-finesse cavity

N Sauerwein, F Orsi, P Uhrich, S Bandyopadhyay… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
All-to-all interacting, disordered quantum many-body models have a wide range of
applications across disciplines, from spin glasses in condensed-matter physics over …

[HTML][HTML] Embrace the darkness: An experimental perspective on organic exciton–polaritons

T Khazanov, S Gunasekaran, A George… - Chemical Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Organic polaritonics has emerged as a captivating interdisciplinary field that marries the
complexities of organic photophysics with the fundamental principles of quantum optics. By …

Self-hybridized vibrational-Mie polaritons in water droplets

A Canales, OV Kotov, B Küçüköz, TO Shegai - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We study the self-hybridization between Mie modes supported by water droplets with
stretching and bending vibrations in water molecules. Droplets with radii> 2.7 μ m are found …