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Strong coupling between lead halide perovskite materials and optical resonators enables both the polaritonic control of the photophysical properties of these emerging semiconductors and the observation of novel fundamental physical…

Polaritonic chemistry exploits strong light-matter coupling between molecules and confined electromagnetic field modes to enable new chemical reactivities. In systems displaying this functionality, the choice of the cavity determines both…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-25 Jacopo Fregoni , Francisco J. García-Vidal , Johannes Feist

We show that strong light-matter coupling can be used to overcome a long standing problem that has prevented efficient optical emission from carbon nanotubes. The luminescence from the nominally bright exciton states of carbon nanotubes is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 Vanik A. Shahnazaryan , Vasil A. Saroka , Ivan A. Shelykh , William L. Barnes , Mikhail E. Portnoi

When the interaction between a molecular system and confined light modes in an optical or plasmonic cavity is strong enough to overcome the dissipative process, hybrid light-matter states (polaritons) emerge as the fundamental excitations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Xinyang Li , Sergei Tretiak , Yu Zhang

Cavity quantum electrodynamics advances the coherent control of a single quantum emitter with a quantized radiation field mode, typically piecewise engineered for the highest finesse and confinement in the cavity field. This enables the…

Due to the hybridization of charged excitons with cavity photons, trion-polaritons (TP) in microcavity semiconductors are a promising avenue for realizing strong polariton interactions and many-body polariton phases. We develop a quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 M. A. Bastarrachea-Magnani , A. Camacho-Guardian

Strong coupling between light and matter is possible with a variety of organic materials. In contrast to the simpler inorganic case, organic materials often have a complicated spectrum, with vibrationally dressed electronic transitions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-02 M. Ahsan Zeb , Peter G. Kirton , Jonathan Keeling

Multi-particle correlations of exciton-polaritons and reservoir-excitons in the strong light-matter coupling regime dictate the quantum dynamics of optical microcavities. In this letter, we examine the many-body exciton-polariton dynamics…

Molecular polaritons are the optical excitations which emerge when molecular transitions interact strongly with confined electromagnetic fields. Increasing interest in the hybrid molecular-photonic materials that host these excitations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-26 Raphael F. Ribeiro , Luis A. Martínez-Martínez , Matthew Du , Jorge Campos-Gonzalez-Angulo , Joel Yuen-Zhou

Polariton chemistry exploits the strong interaction between quantized excitations in molecules and quantized photon states in optical cavities to affect chemical reactivity. Molecular polaritons have been experimentally realized by the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Jonathan J. Foley , Jonathan F. McTague , A. Eugene DePrince

Strong light-matter coupling occurs when the coupling strength between a confined electromagnetic mode and a molecular resonance exceeds losses to the environment. The study of strong coupling has been motivated by applications such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Philip A. Thomas , Kishan S. Menghrajani , William L. Barnes

Ultrastrong light-matter coupling has traditionally been studied in optical cavities, where it occurs when the light-matter coupling strength reaches a significant fraction of the transition frequency. This regime fundamentally alters the…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-13 Niclas S. Mueller , Eduardo B. Barros , Stephanie Reich

A light-matter hybrid quasiparticle, called a polariton, is formed when molecules are strongly coupled to an optical cavity. Recent experiments have shown that polariton chemistry can manipulate chemical reactions. Polariton chemistry is a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Xinyang Li , Nicholas Lubbers , Sergei Tretiak , Kipton Barros , Yu Zhang

Strong light-matter interactions are gaining importance in controlling the photoswitching behavior of molecules exhibiting bistability. Here, we used the strategy of electronic strong coupling of both the E and Z-isomers of azopyrrole…

We theoretically study how the peculiar properties of the vacuum state of an ultra-strongly coupled system can affect basic light-matter interaction processes. In this unconventional electromagnetic environment, an additional emitter no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Daniele De Bernardis , Gian Marcello Andolina , Iacopo Carusotto

Fabry-Perot microcavities can strongly enhance interactions between light and molecules, leading to the formation of hybrid light-matter states known as polaritons. Polaritons possess much smaller effective masses and much larger group…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Zeyu Zhou , Hsing-Ta Chen , Maxim Sukharev , Joseph E. Subotnik , Abraham Nitzan

We propose leveraging strong and ultrastrong light-matter coupling to efficiently generate and exchange nonclassical light and quantum matter states. Two initial conditions are considered: (a) a displaced quadrature-squeezed matter state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Ilia Tutunnikov , Vasil Rokaj , Jianshu Cao , H. R. Sadeghpour

Multi-exciton correlations shape the photo-induced response of nanostructured materials, particularly when interactions are enhanced by light confinement. Here multidimensional coherent spectroscopy is used to quantify biexciton and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Giuseppe Fumero , Jagannath Paul , Jared K. Wahlstrand , Alan D. Bristow

Coupling excitons with quantized radiation has been shown to enable coherent ballistic transport at room temperature inside optical cavities. Previous theoretical works employ a simple description of the material, depicting it as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Saeed Rahmanian Koshkaki , Arshath Manjalingal , Logan Blackham , Arkajit Mandal

The central theme of cavity quantum electrodynamics is the coupling of a single optical mode with a single matter excitation, leading to a doublet of cavity polaritons which govern the optical properties of the coupled structure. Especially…