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Recent experiments and theory demonstrate that the the ground state properties and chemical reactivity of molecules can be modified inside an optical cavity. The vibrational strong or ultrastrong coupling results in the formation of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Qi Yu

Interfacing materials with electromagnetic cavities offers a route to modify equilibrium properties through structured vacuum fluctuations. The coupling of light with correlated electrons lacks a characteristic energy scale, making vacuum…

Realizing nonlinear coupling across space can enable new scientific and technological advances, including ultrafast operation and propagation of information in IR photonic circuitry, remote triggering or catalyzing of chemical reactions,…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-13 Jiaxi Wang , Bo Xiang , Wei Xiong

We study theoretically the interaction between two photons in a nonlinear cavity. The photons are loaded into the cavity via a method we propose here, in which the input/output coupling of the cavity is effectively controlled via a tunable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Mikkel Heuck , Kurt Jacobs , Dirk R. Englund

Ultracold atoms trapped in laser-generated optical lattices serve as a versatile platform for quantum simulations. However, as these lattices are infinitely stiff, they do not allow to emulate phonon degrees of freedom. This restriction can…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-10-27 Natalia Masalaeva , Helmut Ritsch , Farokh Mivehvar

Phonon interactions are inevitable in cavity quantum electrodynamical systems based on solid-state emitters or fluorescent molecules, where vibrations of the lattice or chemical bonds couple to the electronic degrees of freedom. Due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Matias Bundgaard-Nielsen , Jesper Mørk , Emil Vosmar Denning

The effect of phonons on a nonlinear optical response of a quantum dot-cavity system in quantum strong coupling regime can be accounted for by a fully analytical treatment, provided that the exciton-phonon dynamics is much faster than the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-30 L. S. Sirkina , E. A. Muljarov

Optical control of structure-driven magnetic order offers a platform for magneto-optical terahertz devices. We control the magnetic phases of $d^1$ Mott insulating titanates using nonlinear phononics to transiently perturb the atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-18 Mingqiang Gu , James M. Rondinelli

Engineering strong interactions between optical photons is a great challenge for quantum science. Envisioned applications range from the realization of photonic gates for quantum information processing to synthesis of photonic quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Patrick Knüppel , Sylvain Ravets , Martin Kroner , Stefan Fält , Werner Wegscheider , Atac Imamoglu

Optical control is achieved on the excited state energy transfer between spatially separated donor and acceptor molecules, both coupled to the same optical mode of a cavity. The energy transfer occurs through the formed hybrid polaritons…

We introduce a theory of chemical equilibrium in optical microcavities, which allows us to relate equilibrium reaction quotients in different electromagnetic environments. Our theory shows that in planar microcavities under strong coupling…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Kaihong Sun , Raphael F. Ribeiro

We realise a feedback-controlled optical Fabry-Perot cavity in which the transmitted cavity output is used to modulate the input amplitude fluctuations. The resulting phase-dependent fluctuations of the in-loop optical field, which may be…

Laser control of solids was so far mainly discussed in the context of strong classical nonlinear light-matter coupling in a pump-probe framework. Here we propose a quantum-electrodynamical setting to address the coupling of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-02 Michael A. Sentef , Michael Ruggenthaler , Angel Rubio

A phenomenological approach is developed that allows one to completely describe the effects of unwanted noise, such as the noise associated with absorption and scattering, in high-Q cavities. This noise is modeled by a block of beam…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Semenov , D. Yu. Vasylyev , W. Vogel , M. Khanbekyan , D. -G. Welsch

With a variety of realisations, optomechanics utilizes its light matter interaction to test fundamental physics. By coupling the phonons of a mechanical resonator to the photons in a high quality cavity, control of increasingly macroscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 L. F. Deeg , D. Zoepfl , N. Diaz-Naufal , M. L. Juan , A. Metelmann , G. Kirchmair

We show that coupling among multiple resonances can be conveniently introduced and controlled by boundary wave scattering. We demonstrate this principle in optical microcavities of quasi-circular shape, where the couplings of multiple modes…

We propose a method to control the energy distribution in multimode mechanical systems using a single nonlinear feedback loop. We demonstrate that this feedback mechanism simultaneously amplifies the fundamental vibrational mode while…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Xu Zheng , Baowen Li

Controlling light-matter based quantum systems in the strong coupling regime allows for exploring quantum simulation of many-body physics in nowadays architectures. For instance, the atom-field interaction in a cavity QED network provides…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Diego Tancara , Ariel Norambuena , Rubén Peña , Guillermo Romero , Felipe Torres , Raúl Coto

Optical cavities, resonant with vibrational or electronic transitions of material within the cavity, enable control of light-matter interaction. Previous studies have reported cavity-induced modifications of chemical reactivity,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Lucia Di Virgilio , Jaco J. Geuchies , Heejae Kim , Keno Krewer , Hai Wang , Maksim Grechko , Mischa Bonn

Molecules constitute compact hybrid quantum optical systems that can interface photons, electronic degrees of freedom, localized mechanical vibrations and phonons. In particular, the strong vibronic interaction between electrons and nuclear…