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Multiple Rabi Splittings under Ultra-Strong Vibrational Coupling

arXiv:1609.01520 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.153601

Abstract

From the high vibrational dipolar strength offered by molecular liquids, we demonstrate that a molecular vibration can be ultra-strongly coupled to multiple IR cavity modes, with Rabi splittings reaching of the vibration frequencies. As a proof of the ultra-strong coupling regime, our experimental data unambiguously reveal the contributions to the polaritonic dynamics coming from the anti-resonant terms in the interaction energy and from the dipolar self-energy of the molecular vibrations themselves. In particular, we measure the opening of a genuine vibrational polaritonic bandgap of ca. meV. We also demonstrate that the multimode splitting effect defines a whole vibrational ladder of heavy polaritonic states perfectly resolved. These findings reveal the broad possibilities in the vibrational ultra-strong coupling regime which impact both the optical and the molecular properties of such coupled systems, in particular in the context of mode-selective chemistry.

10 pages, 9 figures

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