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 …

Molecular chemistry in cavity strong coupling

K Hirai, JA Hutchison, H Uji-i - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The coherent exchange of energy between materials and optical fields leads to strong light–
matter interactions and so-called polaritonic states with intriguing properties, halfway …

Simulating molecular polaritons in the collective regime using few-molecule models

JB Pérez-Sánchez, A Koner… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The study of molecular polaritons beyond simple quantum emitter ensemble models (eg,
Tavis–Cummings) is challenging due to the large dimensionality of these systems and the …

Swinging between shine and shadow: Theoretical advances on thermally activated vibropolaritonic chemistry

JA Campos-Gonzalez-Angulo, YR Poh, M Du… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Polariton chemistry has emerged as an appealing branch of synthetic chemistry that
promises mode selectivity and a cleaner approach to kinetic control. Of particular interest are …

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 …

Advances in ultrafast plasmonics

AN Koya, M Romanelli, J Kuttruff… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In the past 20 years, we have reached a broad understanding of many light-driven
phenomena in nanoscale systems. The temporal dynamics of the excited states are instead …

Cavity Born–Oppenheimer Hartree–Fock ansatz: Light–matter properties of strongly coupled molecular ensembles

T Schnappinger, D Sidler, M Ruggenthaler… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Experimental studies indicate that optical cavities can affect chemical reactions through
either vibrational or electronic strong coupling and the quantized cavity modes. However …

Toward molecular chiral polaritons

DG Baranov, C Schäfer, MV Gorkunov - ACS Photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
Coupling between light and material excitations underlies a wide range of optical
phenomena. Polaritons are eigenstates of a coupled system with a hybridized wave …

Multi-scale molecular dynamics simulations of enhanced energy transfer in organic molecules under strong coupling

I Sokolovskii, RH Tichauer, D Morozov, J Feist… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Exciton transport can be enhanced in the strong coupling regime where excitons hybridize
with confined light modes to form polaritons. Because polaritons have group velocity, their …