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Vibrational Dressing of Collective Molecular Polaritons: A Scalable Green's-Function Theory
Wenxiang Ying, Michael Galperin, Abraham Nitzan
We develop a scalable Green's-function theory of vibrationally dressed molecular-polariton absorption in the Holstein--Tavis--Cummings model. Within the self-consistent Born approx…
The effect of light scattering in cavity electrodynamics: Fresnel equations with decoherence
Natalya A. Zimbovskaya, Abraham Nitzan
We consider the effect of light decoherence in a Fabri-Perot (FP) microcavity. We show that, when present, it may significantly change its linear response to the incident light.The…
Chiral vibrational modes and vibrational circular dichroism
Xuecheng Tao, Clàudia Climent, Ethan Abraham +2
The recent interest in chiral phonons in a variety of physical phenomena and their hypothesized role in the chiral-induced spin selectivity effect [Phys. Rev. Research, 5, L022039…
A Mesoscopic Ginzburg--Landau Model for Vibrational Strong Coupling Enhanced Rayleigh Scattering in Molecular Liquids
Wenxiang Ying, Abraham Nitzan
Recent experiments by Sandeep \textit{et al.} [Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 65, e16917 (2026)] suggest that vibrational strong coupling (VSC) in molecular liquids can generate mesoscopic…
Thermal chemical reactivity in Frenkel exciton-polariton cavities
Bingyu Cui, Abraham Nitzan
Hybrid light-matter states formed under strong coupling between molecular excitations and confined electromagnetic modes provide a potential route to modify chemical properties. He…
Raman spectroscopy at metal interfaces: A numerical study of the strong coupling regime
Zeyu Zhou, Maxim Sukharev, Abraham Nitzan +1
We investigate how proximity to a metal nanostructure, particularly to a flat mirror or a cavity confined between two mirrors, affects the vibronic structure of Raman scattering si…
Excitation density controlled regimes of collective light--matter dynamics
Wenxiang Ying, Abraham Nitzan
Theoretical descriptions of collective light--matter dynamics often rely on the mean-field (MF) or single-excitation (SE) approximations, yet the parameter regimes where they apply…
Chirality-sensitive mobility and dissipation of Brownian motion on a helical landscape
Debankur Bhattacharyya, Abraham Nitzan
We study the Brownian dynamics and linear response of a particle with inertia moving in a 2-dimensional helical landscape imprinted on a cylindrical surface. In the harmonic well a…
Linear and nonlinear vibrational excitation driven by molecular polaritons
Wenxiang Ying, Carlos M. Bustamante, Franco P. Bonafé +5
Following our recent numerical study [arXiv:2601.16299 (2026)], we investigate vibrational excitation induced by transient optical driving in molecular ensembles strongly coupled t…
Interference Limited Absorption in Dense Molecular Nanolayers Near Reflecting Surfaces
Zeyu Zhou, Maxim Sukharev, Abraham Nitzan +1
We investigate linear resonant absorption by a dense ensemble of molecules confined to a subwavelength layer in two geometries: (i) a free-standing film in homogeneous space and (i…
Collective Rabi-driven vibrational activation in molecular polaritons
Carlos M. Bustamante, Franco P. Bonafé, Richard Richardson +5
Molecular polaritons arise from electronic or vibrational strong coupling (ESC and VSC) with confined electromagnetic fields. While these have been widely studied, the influence of…
Electron transfer in confined electromagnetic fields: a unified Fermi's golden rule rate theory and extension to lossy cavities
Wenxiang Ying, Abraham Nitzan
With the rapid development of nanophotonics and cavity quantum electrodynamics, there has been growing interest in how confined electromagnetic fields modify fundamental molecular…
Rectification of Vibrational Energy Transfer in Driven Chiral Molecules
Jichen Feng, Ethan Abraham, Joseph E. Subotnik +1
We show that the combination of molecular chirality and phase-controlled driving can lead to rectification of vibrational energy transfer. We demonstrate this effect using classica…
Molecular polariton dynamics in realistic cavities
Carlos M. Bustamante, Franco P. Bonafé, Maxim Sukharev +3
The large number of degrees of freedom involved in polaritonic chemistry processes considerably restricts the systems that can be described by any ab initio approach, due to the re…
Chirality-Induced Orbital-Angular-Momentum Selectivity in Electron Transmission and Scattering
Yun Chen, Oded Hod, Joel Gersten +1
Chirality-induced orbital-angular-momentum selectivity (CIOAMS) in electron transmission and scattering processes is investigated. Polarization of the OAM of an electron traversing…
Nuclear Angular Momentum Generation in Thermally Driven Chiral Systems
Jichen Feng, Ethan Abraham, Joseph Subotnik +1
The appearance of angular momentum in the nuclear motion of molecular systems lacking inversion symmetry under imposed thermal gradients presents a novel mechanism with potential i…
Chiral Vibrational Modes in Small Molecules
Jichen Feng, Ethan Abraham, Joseph Subotnik +1
The development of quantitative methods for characterizing molecular chirality can provide an important tool for studying chirality induced phenomena in molecular systems. Signific…
Unveiling the Dance of Molecules: Ro-Vibrational Dynamics of Molecules under Intense Illumination at Complex Plasmonic Interfaces
Maxim Sukharev, Joseph E. Subotnik, Abraham Nitzan
Understanding the quantum dynamics of strongly coupled molecule-cavity systems remains a significant challenge in molecular polaritonics. This work develops a comprehensive self-co…
Molecular chirality quantification: Tools and benchmarks
Ethan Abraham, Abraham Nitzan
Molecular chirality has traditionally been viewed as a binary property where a molecule is classified as either chiral or achiral, yet in the recent decades mathematical methods fo…
Heat Transport with a Twist
Ethan Abraham, Mohammadhasan Dinpajooh, Clàudia Climent +1
Despite the desirability of polymers for use in many products due to their flexibility, light weight, and durability, their status as thermal insulators has precluded their use in…
Kubo-Anderson theory of polariton lineshape
Clàudia Climent, Joseph E. Subotnik, Abraham Nitzan
We apply the Kubo-Anderson stochastic theory of molecular spectral lineshape to the case of polaritons formed in the collective strong coupling regime. We investigate both the fast…
On the nature of polariton transport in a Fabry-Perot Cavity
Zeyu Zhou, Hsing-Ta Chen, Maxim Sukharev +2
Fabry-Perot microcavities can strongly enhance interactions between light and molecules, leading to the formation of hybrid light-matter states known as polaritons. Polaritons poss…
On the nature of two-photon transitions for a Collection of Molecules in a Fabry-Perot Cavity
Zeyu Zhou, Hsing-Ta Chen, Maxim Sukharev +2
We investigate the effect of a cavity on nonlinear two-photon transitions of a molecular system and how such an effect depends on the cavity quality factor, the field enhancement a…
Quantifying the Chirality of Vibrational Modes in Helical Molecular Chains
Ethan Abraham, Abraham Nitzan
Chiral phonons have been proposed to be involved in various physical phenomena, yet the chirality of molecular normal modes has not been well defined mathematically. Here we examin…