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 …

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 …

Expanding chiral metamaterials for retrieving fingerprints via vibrational circular dichroism

C Xu, Z Ren, H Zhou, J Zhou, CP Ho, N Wang… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy has been widely demonstrated for detecting chiral
molecules. However, the determination of chiral mixtures with various concentrations and …

treams–a T-matrix-based scattering code for nanophotonics

D Beutel, I Fernandez-Corbaton, C Rockstuhl - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
We report the publication of treams, a new software for electromagnetic scattering
computations based on the T-matrix method. Besides conventional T-matrix calculations for …

A perspective of twisted photonic structures

J Chen, X Lin, M Chen, T Low, H Chen, S Dai - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Moiré superlattices—twisted van der Waals (vdW) structures with small angles—are
attracting increasing attention in condensed matter physics, due to important phenomena …

Nanophotonic chiral sensing: How does it actually work?

S Both, M Schäferling, F Sterl, EA Muljarov… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanophotonic chiral sensing has recently attracted a lot of attention. The idea is to exploit
the strong light–matter interaction in nanophotonic resonators to determine the …

Polaritonic response theory for exact and approximate wave functions

M Castagnola, RR Riso, A Barlini… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Polaritonic chemistry is an interdisciplinary emerging field that presents several challenges
and opportunities in chemistry, physics, and engineering. A systematic review of polaritonic …

A multi‐scale approach for modeling the optical response of molecular materials inside cavities

B Zerulla, M Krstić, D Beutel, C Holzer… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The recent fabrication advances in nanoscience and molecular materials point toward a new
era where material properties are tailored in silico for target applications. To fully realize this …

Planar chirality and optical spin–orbit coupling for chiral Fabry–Perot cavities

J Gautier, M Li, TW Ebbesen, C Genet - ACS photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
We design, in a most simple way, Fabry–Perot cavities with longitudinal chiral modes by
sandwiching between two smooth metallic silver mirrors a layer of polystyrene made planar …

Chiral discrimination in helicity-preserving Fabry-Pérot cavities

L Mauro, J Fregoni, J Feist, R Avriller - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We theoretically study circular dichroism of chiral molecules embedded inside a helicity-
preserving Fabry-Pérot cavity. We find an increase of the intrinsic chiroptical response of the …