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Symmetry Rules for Cavity Materials Engineering with Linearly Polarized Vacuum Fields
Jingkai Quan, Chongxiao Fan, Benshu Fan +3
Cavity materials engineering, aiming to manipulate material properties by coupling to vacuum fluctuations inside a cavity, is a rapidly advancing field. Despite significant progres…
Cavity Tuning of the CDW--Superconductivity Interplay in a Kagome Metal
Lan-Ting Shi, I-Te Lu, Xin Wang +3
Kagome metals host competing electronic orders, including charge-density-wave (CDW) order and superconductivity, shaped by intertwined lattice, electronic-correlation, and kagome-g…
Macroscopic Polarization and Magnetization from Cavity Vacuum Fluctuations
Jingkai Quan, Chongxiao Fan, Benshu Fan +3
Cavity light-matter interaction has recently emerged as a new avenue for manipulating material properties without driving fields. Here, we demonstrate that cavity vacuum fluctuatio…
Cavity-enhanced superconductivity in the two-dimensional limit of NbSe2
Hanxiang Zhang, Zexin Feng, I-Te Lu +13
Vacuum electromagnetic fluctuations have emerged as a means of controlling collective quantum phases without external driving. Cavity-induced modification of superconductivity has…
Fluctuation engineering in cavity quantum materials
Hope M Bretscher, Lorenzo Graziotto, Marios H Michael +14
Coupling tailored electromagnetic fluctuations to materials provides a resource for controlling correlated quantum matter. By structuring the frequency, spatial, and modal distribu…
Unified ab initio quantum-electrodynamical density-functional theory for cavity-modified electron-phonon-photon coupling in solids
Benshu Fan, I-Te Lu, Michael Ruggenthaler +1
Quantum-electrodynamical density-functional theory (QEDFT) provides a first-principles framework for describing materials coupled to quantized electromagnetic fields. While QEDFT h…
Quantum control of Hubbard excitons
D. R. Baykusheva, D. P. Carmichael, C. S. Weber +12
Quantum control of the many-body wavefunction is a central challenge in quantum materials research, as it could yield a precise control knob to manipulate emergent phenomena. Floqu…
Vacuum-dressed superconductivity in NbN observed in a high- terahertz cavity
Hongjing Xu, Andrey Baydin, Qinyan Yi +8
Emerging theoretical frameworks suggest that physical properties of matter can be altered within an optical cavity by harnessing quantum vacuum electromagnetic fluctuations, even i…
Testing electron-photon exchange-correlation functional performance for many-electron systems under weak and strong light-matter coupling
Iman Ahmadabadi, I-Te Lu, Leonardo A. Cunha +3
We present results of a photon-free exchange-correlation functional within the local density approximation (pxcLDA) for quantum electrodynamics density functional theory (QEDFT) th…
Modifying electronic and structural properties of 2D van der Waals materials via cavity quantum vacuum fluctuations: A first-principles QEDFT study
Hang Liu, Simone Latini, I-Te Lu +2
Structuring the photon density of states and light-matter coupling in optical cavities has emerged as a promising approach to modifying the equilibrium properties of materials thro…
Multiple Photon Field-induced Topological States in Bulk HgTe
Dongbin Shin, I-Te Lu, Benshu Fan +6
Strong light-matter interactions can be exploited to modify properties of quantum materials both in and out of thermal equilibrium. Recent studies suggest electromagnetic fields in…
Cavity engineering of solid-state materials without external driving
I-Te Lu, Dongbin Shin, Mark Kamper Svendsen +4
Confining electromagnetic fields inside an optical cavity can enhance the light-matter coupling between quantum materials embedded inside the cavity and the confined photon fields.…
The 2025 Roadmap to Ultrafast Dynamics: Frontiers of Theoretical and Computational Modelling
Fabio Caruso, Michael A. Sentef, Claudio Attaccalite +27
The exploration of ultrafast phenomena is a frontier of condensed matter research, where the interplay of theory, computation, and experiment is unveiling new opportunities for und…
Cavity engineered phonon-mediated superconductivity in MgB from first principles quantum electrodynamics
I-Te Lu, Dongbin Shin, Mark Kamper Svendsen +5
Strong laser pulses can control superconductivity, inducing non-equilibrium transient pairing by leveraging strong-light matter interaction. Here we demonstrate theoretically that…
Electron-Photon Exchange-Correlation Approximation for QEDFT
I-Te Lu, Michael Ruggenthaler, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean +3
Quantum-electrodynamical density-functional theory (QEDFT) provides a promising avenue for exploring complex light-matter interactions in optical cavities for real materials. Simil…