Chiral Polaritonics: Analytic Solutions, Intuition and its Use

Abstract

Preferential selection of a given enantiomer over its chiral counterpart becomes increasingly relevant in the advent of the next era of medical drug design. In parallel, cavity quantum electrodynamics has grown into a solid framework to control energy transfer and chemical reactivity. In this work, we derive an analytical solution to a system of many chiral emitters interacting with a chiral cavity -- in analogy to the widely used Tavis-Cummings and Hopfield models of quantum optics. We are able to estimate the discriminating strength of chiral polaritonics, discuss possible future development directions, exciting applications such as elucidating homochirality, and deliver much needed intuition to foster the freshly flourishing field of chiral polaritonics.

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