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20242026
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5 papers

physics.optics2026

Strong light-matter interactions in hybrid polaritonic systems

Ben Johns, Andrea Schirato, Federico Toffoletti +13

Strong light-matter coupling gives rise to polaritons - hybrid excitations whose mixed photonic and matter character enables control over optical, electronic and chemical propertie…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Bridging Structure and Activity in Nanocatalysts via Machine Learning and Global Structure Representations

Sofia Zinzani, Francesca Baletto, Kevin Rossi

Establishing a mapping between nanocatalysts structure and their catalytic properties is essential for efficient design. To this end, we demonstrate the accuracy of a general machi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Morphological stability of Au-metal nanosatellites

Sofia Zinzani, Robert M. Jones, Mirko Vanzan +1

Hybrid metallic nanoalloys combining plasmonic and catalytic metals are essential for developing advanced photocatalysts. A promising design called core-satellites comprises a sphe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

A rational framework to estimate the chiroptical activity of [6]Helicene Derivatives

Mirko Vanzan, Susanna Bertuletti, Belen Bazan +5

Helicenes are a class of molecules potentially suitable in several technological applications with intrinsic structural chirality which makes them interesting scaffolds for chiropt…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Machine-learnt potential highlights melting and freezing of aluminium nanoparticles

Davide Alimonti, Francesca Baletto

We investigated the complete thermodynamic cycle of aluminium nanoparticles through classical molecular dynamics simulations, spanning a wide size range from 200 atoms to 11000 ato…