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Achieving strong coupling between light and matter is usually a challenge in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics (cQED), especially in solid state systems. For this reason is useful taking advantage of alternative approaches to reach this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 J. E. Ramírez-Muñoz , J. P. Restrepo Cuartas , H. Vinck-Posada

Since its inception, research of cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED) has extended our understanding of light-matter interactions and our ability to utilize them. Thus far, all the work in this field has been focused on light interacting…

In the recent years a series of experimental and theoretical efforts have centered around a new topic: the coherent, cavity-enhanced interaction between optical photons and solid state magnons. The resulting emerging field of Cavity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Silvia Viola Kusminskiy

We evaluate the exact dipole coupling strength between a single emitter and the radiation field within an optical cavity, taking into account the effects of multilayer dielectric mirrors. Our model allows one to freely vary the resonance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Astghik Saharyan , Juan-Rafael Álvarez , Thomas H. Doherty , Axel Kuhn , Stéphane Guerin

In this work, we present a field-theoretic model of strongly coupled photonic molecules composed of interacting dielectric cavities in a closed, perfect-electric-conductor domain. Within this setting, we treat the resulting inter-mode…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-17 Kevin C. Smith , Austin G. Nixon , David J. Masiello

We investigate a cavity quantum electrodynamic effect, where the alignment of two-dimensional freely rotating optical dipoles is driven by their collective coupling to the cavity field. By exploiting the formal equivalence of a set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Erika Cortese , Pavlos Lagoudakis , Simone De Liberato

A single cavity photon mode is expected to modify the Coulomb interaction of an electron system in the cavity. Here we investigate this phenomena in a parallel double quantum dot system. We explore properties of the closed system and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Vidar Gudmundsson , Anna Sitek , Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu

We study the photon statistics of a cavity linearly coupled to an optomechanical system via second order correlation functions. Our calculations show that the cavity can exhibit strong photon antibunching even when optomechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-22 Xun-Wei Xu , Yuan-Jie Li

Photon-photon scattering in vacuum is extremely weak. However, strong effective interactions between single photons can be realized by employing strong light-matter coupling. These interactions are a fundamental building block for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-07 Dibyendu Roy , C. M. Wilson , Ofer Firstenberg

The idea of making photons effectively interact has attracted a lot of interest in recent years, for several reasons. Firstly, since photons do not naturally interact with each other, it is of fundamental physical interest to see what kind…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Simon Panyella Pedersen

The quantum dynamics of the coupling between a cavity optical field and a resonator microwave field via the electro-optic effect is studied. This coupling has the same form as the opto-mechanical coupling via radiation pressure, so all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-02 Mankei Tsang

The energetic positions of molecular electronic states at molecule/electrode interfaces are crucial factors for determining the transport and optoelectronic properties of molecular junctions. Strong light--matter coupling offers a potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Kuniyuki Miwa , Souichi Sakamoto , Akihito Ishizaki

Light is extensively used to steer the motion of atoms in free space, enabling cooling and trapping of matter waves through ponderomotive forces and Doppler-mediated photon scattering. Likewise, light interaction with free electrons has…

Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) studies the interaction between light and matter at the single quantum level and has played a central role in quantum science and technology. Combining the idea of cavity QED with moir\'e materials, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-14 Kanta Masuki , Yuto Ashida

The emergent field of cavity quantum materials bridges collective many-body phenomena in solid-state platforms with strong light-matter coupling in cavity quantum electrodynamics (cavity QED). This brief review provides an overview of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Frank Schlawin , Dante M. Kennes , Michael A. Sentef

We investigate the control of interacting matter through strong coupling to a single electromagnetic mode, such as the photon mode in a Fabry-Perot or split-ring cavity. For this purpose, we analyze the exact effective theory for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-12 Katharina Lenk , Jiajun Li , Philipp Werner , Martin Eckstein

The interaction of light and matter at the single-photon level is of central importance in various fields of physics, including, e.g., condensed matter physics, astronomy, quantum optics, and quantum information. Amplification of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 Wei Qin , Anton Frisk Kockum , Carlos Sánchez Muñoz , Adam Miranowicz , Franco Nori

Radiation-matter hybridization allows atoms to serve as mediators of effective interactions between light modes and, conversely, to interact among themselves via light. Here we exploit the spatial structure of atomic ensembles to control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Carlos E. Máximo , Romain Bachelard , Tobias Donner

The study of light-matter interaction has seen a resurgence in recent years, stimulated by highly controllable, precise, and modular experiments in cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED). The achievement of strong coupling, where the coupling…

The ground state of a cavity-electron system in the ultrastrong coupling regime is characterized by the presence of virtual photons. If an electric current flows through this system, the modulation of the light-matter coupling induced by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-16 Mauro Cirio , Nathan Shammah , Neill Lambert , Simone De Liberato , Franco Nori