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 …

Characterizing photocatalysts for water splitting: from atoms to bulk and from slow to ultrafast processes

C Kranz, M Wächtler - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Research on light-driven catalysis has gained tremendous importance due to the ever-
increasing power consumption and the threatening situation of global warming related to …

Sub-picosecond collapse of molecular polaritons to pure molecular transition in plasmonic photoswitch-nanoantennas

J Kuttruff, M Romanelli, E Pedrueza-Villalmanzo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Molecular polaritons are hybrid light-matter states that emerge when a molecular transition
strongly interacts with photons in a resonator. At optical frequencies, this interaction unlocks …

Polarizable embedding QM/MM: the future gold standard for complex (bio) systems?

M Bondanza, M Nottoli, L Cupellini… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Nowadays, hybrid QM/MM approaches are widely used to study (supra) molecular systems
embedded in complex biological matrices. However, in their common formulation, mutual …

Universal QM/MM approaches for general nanoscale applications

KS Csizi, M Reiher - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) hybrid models allow one to address
chemical phenomena in complex molecular environments. Whereas this modeling approach …

Polaritonic chemistry from first principles via embedding radiation reaction

C Schafer - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
The coherent interaction of a large collection of molecules with a common photonic mode
results in strong light-matter coupling, a feature that has proven highly beneficial for …

Molecular spectroscopy of aqueous solutions: a theoretical perspective

T Giovannini, F Egidi, C Cappelli - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Computational spectroscopy is an invaluable tool to both accurately reproduce the spectra
of molecular systems and provide a rationalization for the underlying physics. However, the …

Continuum vs. atomistic approaches to computational spectroscopy of solvated systems

T Giovannini, C Cappelli - Chemical Communications, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular spectral signals can be significantly altered by solvent effects. Among the many
theoretical approaches to this problem, continuum and atomistic solvation models have …

Ab initio methods for polariton chemistry

JJ Foley, JF McTague, AE DePrince - Chemical Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Polariton chemistry exploits the strong interaction between quantized excitations in
molecules and quantized photon states in optical cavities to affect chemical reactivity …

Strong coupling between localized surface plasmons and molecules by coupled cluster theory

J Fregoni, TS Haugland, S Pipolo, T Giovannini… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic nanocavities enable the confinement of molecules and electromagnetic fields
within nanometric volumes. As a consequence, the molecules experience a remarkably …