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The interaction of quantum light with matter like that inside a cavity is known to give rise to mixed light-matter states called polaritons. We discuss the impact of rotation of the cavity on the polaritons. It is shown that the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Lorenz S. Cederbaum

Exciton-polaritons are mutually interacting quantum hybridizations of confined photons and electronic excitations. Here we demonstrate a system of optically guided, electrically polarized exciton-polaritons ('dipolaritons') that displays up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Itamar Rosenberg , Dror Liran , Yotam Mazuz-Harpaz , Kenneth West , Loren Pfeiffer , Ronen Rapaport

Nonperturbative coupling between cavity photons and excitons leads to formation of hybrid light-matter excitations termed polaritons. In structures where photon absorption leads to creation of excitons with aligned permanent dipoles, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Emre Togan , Hyang-Tag Lim , Stefan Faelt , Werner Wegscheider , Atac Imamoglu

Polaritons are compositional light-matter quasiparticles that have recently enabled remarkable breakthroughs in quantum and nonlinear optics, as well as in material science. Despite the enormous progress, however, a direct nanometer-scale…

Polaritons are quasiparticles resulting from strong quantum coupling of light and matter. Peculiar properties of polaritons are a mixture of physics usually restricted to one of these realms, making them interesting for study not only from…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-14 Andrzej Opala , Michał Matuszewski

We consider a one-dimensional topological superconductor hosting Majorana bound states at its ends coupled to a single mode cavity. In the strong light-matter coupling regime, electronic and photonic degrees of freedom hybridize resulting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Olesia Dmytruk , Marco Schirò

Optical polaritons appear when a material excitation strongly couples to the optical mode. Such strong coupling between molecular transitions and optical cavities results in far-reaching opportunities in modifying fundamental properties of…

Vibrational strong coupling is emerging as a promising tool to modify molecular properties, by making use of hybrid light-matter states known as polaritons. Fabry-Perot cavities filled with organic molecules are typically used, and the…

Exciton-polaritons (EPs) arising from strong light-matter coupling offer new pathways for controlling optoelectronic properties. While typically requiring closed optical cavities for strong coupling, we demonstrate that 2D metal-organic…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-11 Bongjun Choi , Adam D. Alfieri , Wangleong Chen , Deep Jariwala

The polariton, a quasiparticle formed by strong coupling of a photon to a matter excitation, is a fundamental ingredient of emergent photonic quantum systems ranging from semiconductor nanophotonics to circuit quantum electrodynamics.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-21 Joonhyuk Kwon , Youngshin Kim , Alfonso Lanuza , Dominik Schneble

Slow light is a regime of reduced group velocity, resulting in increased photon density in optical pulses and enhanced nonlinear effects. Here, we propose the realization of slow light in the regime of strong light-matter interaction…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-01 Amir Rahmani , Maciej Dems , Michał Matuszewski

Strong coupling between light and matter in an optical cavity provides a pathway to giant polariton nonlinearity, where effective polariton-polariton interactions are mediated by materials' nonlinear responses. The pursuit of such enhanced…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-26 Zhi Wang , Li He , Bumho Kim , Bo Zhen

Strong light-matter coupling in optical waveguides provides a versatile platform for engineering hybrid polaritonic modes and their dispersion. Here we investigate multimode exciton-photon coupling in visible semiconductor waveguides…

The recent progress in nanotechnology [1,2] and single-molecule spectroscopy [3-5] paves the way for cost-effective organic quantum optical technologies emergent with a promise to real-life devices operating at ambient conditions. In this…

We develop a theory for light propagating in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of strong interactions. The resulting many-body correlations are shown to have profound effects on the optical properties of this interacting…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-05-06 A. Camacho-Guardian , K. Knakkergaard Nielsen , T. Pohl , G. M. Bruun

Cavity quantum electrodynamics has been studied as a potential approach to modify free charge carrier generation in donor-acceptor heterojunctions because of the delocalization and controllable energy level properties of hybridized…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 Weijun Wu , Andrew E. Sifain , Courtney A. Delpo , Gregory D. Scholes

Strong coupling of molecular vibrations with light creates polariton states, enabling control over many optical and chemical properties. However, the near-field signatures of strong coupling are difficult to map as most cavities are closed…

Magnon-polaritons (MPs) refer to a light--magnon coupled state and can potentially act as information carriers, possibly enabling charge-free computation. However, the light--magnon coupling is inherently weak. To achieve sufficiently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Kenta Kato , Tomohiro Yokoyama , Hajime Ishihara

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

Quantum dynamics of the photoisomerization of a single 3,3'-diethyl-2,2'-thiacynine iodide molecule embedded in an optical microcavity was theoretically studied. The molecule was coupled to a single cavity mode via the quantum Rabi…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Juan B. Pérez-Sánchez , Joel Yuen-Zhou