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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

Polaritonic chemistry offers the possibility of modifying molecular properties and even influencing chemical reactivity through strong coupling between vibrational transitions and confined light modes in optical cavities. Despite…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Thomas Schnappinger , Markus Kowalewski

Strong light-matter coupling gives rise to polaritons - hybrid excitations whose mixed photonic and matter character enables control over optical, electronic and chemical properties. This Feature Article surveys the main architectures…

Strong coupling in the conventional sense requires that the Rabi cycling process between two interacting states is faster than other dissipation rates. Some recent experimental findings show intriguing properties that were attributed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-09 Ben Johns , Nitin Yadav , Anand Vinod , Kuljeet Kaur , Jino George

Phonon polaritons are hybrid states of light and matter that are typically realised when optically active phonons couple strongly to photons. We suggest a new approach to realising phonon polaritons, by employing a transverse-pumping Raman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Alexander N. Bourzutschky , Benjamin L. Lev , Jonathan Keeling

Recent experiments have revealed the profound effect of strong light-matter interactions in optical cavities on the electronic ground state of molecular systems. This phenomenon, known as vibrational strong coupling (VSC), can modify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Thomas Schnappinger , Markus Kowalewski

Inspired by the recent experimental observation of strongly coupled polaritons in a Moir\'e heterobilayer, we study a model of dipole-interacting excitons localized on sites of a lattice and coupled to planar cavity photons. We calculate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-25 Alexander Edelman , Peter B. Littlewood

The experimental realization of strong light-matter coupling with molecules initiated the rapidly evolving field of molecular polaritonics. Most studies focus on how exciton polaritons, which combine electronic excitations with confined…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Lucas Borges , Thomas Schnappinger , Markus Kowalewski

This review outlines several linear optical effects featured by molecular polaritons arising in the collective strong light-matter coupling regime. Under weak laser irradiation and when the single-molecule light-matter coupling can be…

There is growing interest in using strongly coupled organic microcavities to tune molecular dynamics, including the electronic and vibrational properties of molecules. However, very little attention has been paid to the utility of cavity…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-12 Bin Liu , Vinod M. Menon , Matthew Y. Sfeir

We employ an exact quantum mechanical simulation technique to investigate a model of cavity-modified chemical reactions in the condensed phase. The model contains the coupling of the reaction coordinate to a generic solvent, cavity coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Lachlan P. Lindoy , Arkajit Mandal , David R. Reichman

Recently, systems with strong coupling between electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom attract a great attention. In this work, we consider the transient dynamics of the system consisting of strongly coupled vibron and exciton driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 E. A. Tereshchenkov , V. Yu. Shishkov , E. S. Andrianov

Polaritons have gained significant attention for the tantalizing possibility of modifying chemical properties and dynamics by coupling molecules to resonant cavity modes to create hybrid light-matter quantum states. Herein, we implement the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Scott M. Garner , Xiaosong Li , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Polariton chemistry has emerged as an appealing branch of synthetic chemistry that promises mode selectivity and a cleaner approach to kinetic control. Of particular interest are the numerous experiments in which reactivity has been…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Jorge A. Campos-Gonzalez-Angulo , Yong Rui Poh , Matthew Du , Joel Yuen-Zhou

By means of analytical and numerical methods we analyze the phase diagram of polaritons in one-dimensional coupled cavities. We locate the phase boundary, discuss the behavior of the polariton compressibility and visibility fringes across…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-29 Davide Rossini , Rosario Fazio

Molecular polaritons arise when molecules interact so strongly with light that they become entangled with each other. This light-matter hybridization alters the chemical and physical properties of the molecular system and allows chemical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Tor S. Haugland , John P. Philbin , Tushar K. Ghosh , Ming Chen , Henrik Koch , Prineha Narang

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…

We investigate the steady states of a lossy array of nonlinear optical resonators that are driven by lasers and interact via mutual photon tunneling. For weak nonlinearities, we find two-mode squeezing of polaritons in modes whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Michael J. Hartmann

Under vibrational strong coupling (VSC), the formation of molecular polaritons may significantly modify the photo-induced or thermal properties of molecules. In an effort to understand these intriguing modifications, both experimental and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-07 Tao E. Li , Abraham Nitzan , Joseph E. Subotnik

We theoretically designed and experimentally demonstrated a mechanism to protect a spatially segregated mixed light-matter state, known as intercavity exciton-polariton in strongly coupled optical cavities. This excitation, shared across…