Using individual molecules as conducting bridges for electrons offers opportunities when
investigating quantum phenomena that are not readily accessible from experiments …

Polaritonic chemistry exploits strong light–matter coupling between molecules and confined
electromagnetic field modes to enable new chemical reactivities. In systems displaying this …

Ambitions to reach atomic resolution with light have been a major force in shaping nano-
optics, whereby a central challenge is achieving highly localized optical fields. A promising …

Unlike classic spins, quantum magnets are spin systems that interact via the exchange
interaction and exhibit collective quantum behaviours, such as fractional excitations …

Discoveries in quantum materials, which are characterized by the strongly quantum-
mechanical nature of electrons and atoms, have revealed exotic properties that arise from …

Light–matter interaction drives many systems, such as optoelectronic devices like light-
emitting diodes and solar cells, biological structures like photosystem II and potential future …

Given its central role in utilizing light energy, photoinduced electron transfer (PET) from an
excited molecule has been widely studied,,,,–. However, even though microscopic …

Quantum-coherent intermolecular energy transfer is believed to play a key role in light
harvesting in photosynthesis and photovoltaics. So far, a direct, real-space demonstration of …

The interactions of the excited states of a single chromophore with static and dynamic
electric fields spatially varying at the atomic scale are investigated in a joint experimental …

Plasmonic nanocavities enable the confinement of molecules and electromagnetic fields
within nanometric volumes. As a consequence, the molecules experience a remarkably …