activity
20242026
collaborators

5 papers

quant-ph2026

Cavity-mediated localization and collective electron correlation phases

Dominik Sidler, Francesco Greco, Michael Ruggenthaler +1

Collective strong coupling of molecular ensembles to optical cavities opens a route to modifying matter through genuinely collective electronic correlations. Yet even in the absenc…

physics.chem-ph2025

Density-Functional Tight Binding Meets Maxwell: Unraveling the Mysteries of (Strong) Light-Matter Coupling Efficiently

Dominik Sidler, Carlos M. Bustamante, Franco P. Bonafe +3

Controlling chemical and material properties through strong light-matter coupling in optical cavities has gained considerable attention over the past decade. However, the underlyin…

physics.chem-ph2025

Collectively-modified inter-molecular electron correlations: The connection of polaritonic chemistry and spin glass physics

Dominik Sidler, Michael Ruggenthaler, Angel Rubio

Polaritonic chemistry has garnered increasing attention in recent years due to pioneering experimental results, which show that site- and bond-selective chemistry at room temperatu…

quant-ph2024

Analytic Model Reveals Local Molecular Polarizability Changes Induced by Collective Strong Coupling in Optical Cavities

Jacob Horak, Dominik Sidler, Thomas Schnappinger +3

Despite recent numerical evidence, one of the fundamental theoretical mysteries of polaritonic chemistry is how and if collective strong coupling can induce local changes of the el…

physics.chem-ph2024

The relevance of degenerate states in chiral polaritonics

Carlos M. Bustamante, Dominik Sidler, Michael Ruggenthaler +1

In this work we explore theoretically whether a parity-violating/chiral light-matter interaction is required to capture all relevant aspects of chiral polaritonics or if a parity-c…