From enhanced diffusion to ultrafast ballistic motion of hybrid light–matter excitations

M Balasubrahmaniyam, A Simkhovich, A Golombek… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Transport of excitons and charge carriers in molecular systems can be enhanced by
coherent coupling to photons, giving rise to the formation of hybrid excitations known as …

Investigating Molecular Exciton Polaritons Using Ab Initio Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

BM Weight, TD Krauss, P Huo - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Coupling molecules to the quantized radiation field inside an optical cavity creates a set of
new photon–matter hybrid states called polariton states. We combine electronic structure …

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 …

Microscopic theory of multimode polariton dispersion in multilayered materials

A Mandal, D Xu, A Mahajan, J Lee, M Delor… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
We develop a microscopic theory for the multimode polariton dispersion in materials
coupled to cavity radiation modes. Starting from a microscopic light–matter Hamiltonian, we …

Quantum dynamics simulations of the 2D spectroscopy for exciton polaritons

ME Mondal, ER Koessler, J Provazza… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We develop an accurate and numerically efficient non-adiabatic path-integral approach to
simulate the non-linear spectroscopy of exciton–polariton systems. This approach is based …

Enhanced two-dimensional exciton propagation via strong light–matter coupling with surface lattice plasmons

L Jin, AD Sample, D Sun, Y Gao, S Deng, R Li… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Exciton–polaritons─ hybrid exciton–photon quasi-particles─ have enabled exciting long-
range coherent transport by taking advantage of the properties of their photonic component …

Theoretical analysis of exciton wave packet dynamics in polaritonic wires

GJR Aroeira, KT Kairys, RF Ribeiro - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We present a comprehensive study of the exciton wave packet evolution in disordered
lossless polaritonic wires. Our simulations reveal signatures of ballistic, diffusive, and …

Disorder-enhanced transport in a chain of lossy dipoles strongly coupled to cavity photons

TF Allard, G Weick - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We study the interplay between disorder and light-matter coupling by considering a
disordered one-dimensional chain of lossy dipoles coupled to a multimode optical cavity …

Vibrational polariton transport in disordered media

E Suyabatmaz, RF Ribeiro - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Chemical reactions and energy transport phenomena have been experimentally reported to
be significantly affected by strong light–matter interactions and vibrational polariton …

Non-Hermitian molecular dynamics simulations of exciton–polaritons in lossy cavities

I Sokolovskii, G Groenhof - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The observation that materials can change their properties when placed inside or near an
optical resonator has sparked a fervid interest in understanding the effects of strong light …