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 …

Implications of gauge freedom for nonrelativistic quantum electrodynamics

A Stokes, A Nazir - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Gauge freedom in quantum electrodynamics (QED) outside of textbook regimes is reviewed.
It is emphasized that QED subsystems are defined relative to a choice of gauge. Each …

Perspective: Quantum Hamiltonians for optical interactions

DL Andrews, GA Jones, A Salam… - The Journal of chemical …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The multipolar Hamiltonian of quantum electrodynamics is extensively employed in
chemical and optical physics to treat rigorously the interaction of electromagnetic fields with …

Rashba cavity QED: a route towards the superradiant quantum phase transition

P Nataf, T Champel, G Blatter, DM Basko - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We develop a theory of cavity quantum electrodynamics for a 2D electron gas in the
presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and perpendicular static magnetic field, coupled to …

Gauge-invariant theory of truncated quantum light-matter interactions in arbitrary media

C Gustin, S Franke, S Hughes - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
The loss of gauge invariance in models of light-matter interaction which arises from material
and photonic space truncation can pose significant challenges to conventional quantum …

Beyond the electric-dipole approximation in simulations of x-ray absorption spectroscopy: Lessons from relativistic theory

NH List, TRL Melin, M van Horn, T Saue - The Journal of chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We present three schemes to go beyond the electric-dipole approximation in x-ray
absorption spectroscopy calculations within a four-component relativistic framework. The …

Superradiant quantum phase transition for Landau polaritons with Rashba and Zeeman couplings

G Manzanares, T Champel, DM Basko, P Nataf - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We develop a theory of cavity quantum electrodynamics for a two-dimensional electron gas
in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit and Zeeman couplings and perpendicular magnetic …

Avoiding gauge ambiguities in cavity quantum electrodynamics

DM Rouse, BW Lovett, EM Gauger, N Westerberg - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Systems of interacting charges and fields are ubiquitous in physics. Recently, it has
been shown that Hamiltonians derived using different gauges can yield different physical …

Identification of Poincaré-gauge and multipolar nonrelativistic theories of QED

A Stokes, A Nazir - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
For over six decades, quantum electrodynamics (QED) in multipolar form has been an
invaluable tool for understanding quantum-scale atomic and molecular interactions …

Resonant tunneling diodes in semiconductor microcavities: Modeling polaritonic features in the terahertz displacement current

CF Destefani, M Villani, X Cartoixà, M Feiginov… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We develop in this work a qualitative quantum electron transport model, in the strong light-
matter coupling regime under dipole approximation, able to capture polaritonic signatures in …