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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

Recent experimental progress in the field of cavity quantum electrodynamics allows to study the regime of strong interaction between quantized light and complex matter systems. Due to the coherent coupling between photons and matter-degrees…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Florian Buchholz

Gas-phase molecules are a promising platform through which to elucidate the mechanisms of action and scope of polaritons for optical control of chemistry. Polaritons arise from the strong coupling of a dipole-allowed molecular transition…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Jane C. Nelson , Marissa L. Weichman

Molecular polaritons have gained considerable attention due to their potential to control nanoscale molecular processes by harnessing electromagnetic coherence. Although recent experiments with liquid-phase vibrational polaritons have shown…

An ensemble of identical, intrinsically non-interacting molecules exposed to quantum light is discussed. Their interaction with the quantum light induces interactions between the molecules. The resulting hybrid light-matter states exhibit…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Lorenz S. Cederbaum

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

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…

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

Chemical manifestations of strong light-matter coupling have been recently subject of intense experimental and theoretical studies. Here we review the present status of this field. Section 1 is an introduction to molecular polaritonics and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Tao E. Li , Bingyu Cui , Joseph E. Subotnik , Abraham Nitzan

Polaritonic states arise when a bright optical transition of a molecular ensemble is resonantly matched to an optical cavity mode frequency. Here, we lay the groundwork to study the behavior of polaritons in clean, isolated systems by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Adam D. Wright , Jane C. Nelson , Marissa L. Weichman

We employ the exact factorization of a multi-component wavefunction to analyze the dynamics of interacting photons, electrons and nuclei. We consider physical situations emerging in the regime of strong coupling between light excitations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Claudia Magi , Peter Schuerger , David Lauvergnat , Federica Agostini

Strong light-matter coupling is a quantum process in which light and matter are coupled together, generating hybridized states. This is similar to the notion of molecular hybridization, but one of the components is light. Here, we utilized…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Jhuma Dutta , Pooja Bhatt , Kuljeet Kaur , Daniel E. Gómez , Jino George

Vibrational polaritons are formed by strong coupling of molecular vibrations and photon modes in an optical cavity. Experiments have demonstrated that vibrational strong coupling can change molecular properties and even affect chemical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Thomas Schnappinger , Cyril Falvo , Markus Kowalewski

The emergence of confined structures and pattern formation are exceptional manifestations of concurring nonlinear interactions found in a variety of physical, chemical and biological systems[1]. Optical solitons are a hallmark of extreme…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-29 Felix Kurtz , Claus Ropers , Georg Herink

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 provide a simple method that enables readily acquired experimental data to be used to predict whether or not a candidate molecular material may exhibit strong coupling. Specifically, we explore the relationship between the hybrid…

Molecular strong coupling offers exciting prospects in physics, chemistry and materials science. Whilst attention has been focused on developing realistic models for the molecular systems, the important role played by the entire photonic…

Light-matter interactions are known to lead to the formation of polariton states through what is called strong coupling, leading to the formation of two hybrid states usually tagged as Upper and Lower Polaritons. Here, we consider a similar…

Polaritons, mixed light-matter quasiparticles, undergo a transition to a condensed, macroscopically coherent state at low temperatures or high densities. Recent experiments show that coupling light to organic molecules inside a microcavity…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-03-06 Justyna A. Cwik , Sahinur Reja , Peter B. Littlewood , Jonathan Keeling

Polaritonic chemistry investigates the possible modification of chemical and photochemical reactions by means of strong light-matter coupling in optical cavities, as demonstrated in numerous experiments over the last few years. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Lucas Borges , Thomas Schnappinger , Markus Kowalewski