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Interactions between quasiparticles are of fundamental importance and ultimately determine the macroscopic properties of quantum matter. A famous example is the phenomenon of superconductivity, which arises from attractive electron-electron…

Atomically thin crystals of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) host excitons with strong binding energies and sizable light-matter interactions. Coupled to optical cavities, monolayer TMDs routinely reach the regime of strong…

The light--matter interaction in optical cavities offers a promising ground to create hybrid states and manipulate material properties. In this work, we examine the effect of light-matter coupling in the excitonic insulator phase using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Elahe Davari , Mehdi Kargarian

We present a microscopic quantum theory of light-matter interaction in pristine sheets of two-dimensional semiconductors coupled to localized electromagnetic resonators such as optical nanocavities or plasmonic particles. The light-matter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 E. V. Denning , M. Wubs , N. Stenger , J. Mork , P. T. Kristensen

Excitons govern the light-matter interaction in 2D gapped materials with intrinsically large binding energies. In spite of plentiful optical measurements in the visible for semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides, we still lack…

Dissipative coupling refers to the effect where two systems interact with each other mediated by dissipation channels. Recent advances in controlling light-matter systems have opened new avenues to explore non-Hermitian effects arising from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Diego A. Mendoza , Areli J. Vega-Carmona , Arturo Camacho-Guardian , Miguel A. Bastarrachea-Magnani

In a microcavity, light-matter coupling is quantified by the vacuum Rabi frequency $\Omega_R$. When $\Omega_R$ is larger than radiative and non-radiative loss rates, the system eigenstates (polaritons) are linear superposition of photonic…

Strongly correlated polaritons are necessary for entering the quantum photonic regime with many applications. We simulate exciton-polariton condensation using the finite-difference and 4th order Runge-Kutta methods with the strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Varad R. Pande

The two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDCs) are an intriguing platform for studying light-matter interactions because they combine the electronic properties of conventional semiconductors with the optical resonances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-02 Aaron H. Rose , Taylor J. Aubry , Hanyu Zhang , Jao van de Lagemaat

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

In spite of having finite life-time exciton-polaritons in microcavities are known to condense at strong enough pumping of the reservoir. We present an analytical theory of such Bose-condensates on a set of localized one-particle states:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-09 I. L. Aleiner , B. L. Altshuler , Y. G. Rubo

The realization and control of polaritons is of paramount importance in the prospect of novel photonic devices. Here, we investigate the emergence of plasmon-exciton polaritons in hybrid structures consisting of a two-dimensional (2D)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-10 P. A. D. Gonçalves , L. P. Bertelsen , Sanshui Xiao , N. Asger Mortensen

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

We have investigated theoretically a dissipative polariton system in the ultrastrong light-matter coupling regime without using the rotating-wave approximation on system-reservoir coupling. Photons in a cavity and excitations in matter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-07 Motoaki Bamba , Tetsuo Ogawa

In recent years it has become clear that the transport of excitons and charge carriers in molecular systems can be enhanced by coherent coupling with photons, giving rise to the formation of hybrid excitations known as polaritons. Such…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-19 M. Balasubrahmaniyam , Arie Simkovich , Adina Golombek , Guy Ankonina , Tal Schwartz

The light-matter interaction associated with a two-dimensional (2D) excitonic transition coupled to a zero-dimensional (0D) photonic cavity is fundamentally different from coupling localized excitations in quantum dots or color centers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 David Rosser , Dario Gerace , Lucio C. Andreani , Arka Majumdar

Quantum light-matter systems at strong coupling are notoriously challenging to analyze due to the need to include states with many excitations in every coupled mode. We propose a nonperturbative approach to analyze light-matter correlations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Yuto Ashida , Atac Imamoglu , Eugene Demler

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

Nonperturbative coupling of light with condensed matter in an optical cavity is expected to reveal a host of coherent many-body phenomena and states. In addition, strong coherent light-matter interaction in a solid-state environment is of…

A theoretical description of radiation-matter coupling for semiconductor-based photonic crystal slabs is presented, in which quantum wells are embedded within the waveguide core layer. A full quantum theory is developed, by quantizing both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Gerace , L. C. Andreani