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20092026
most citedResonant catalysis of thermally-activated chemical reactions via vibrational polaritons

227 citations · 2.4k across the 65 of their papers we have counts for

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69 papers

quant-ph2026

Full-wave nonlinear microscopy reveals guided channel for ultrafast polariton transport

Qingyi Zhou, Piper Fowler-Wright, Zongfu Yu +2

We show how finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations can be extended to model ultrafast nonlinear microscopy, enabling the prediction of spatially-resolved pump--probe sign…

physics.optics2026

Hidden optical nonlinearities in linear spectra of quantum emitter arrays

Sricharan Raghavan-Chitra, Arghadip Koner, Joel Yuen-Zhou

Classical optical frameworks such as the discrete dipole approximation (DDA) assume that the linear spectrum of coupled quantum emitters can be computed solely from the linear susc…

quant-ph2026

Multidimensional semiclassical single- and double-quantum spectroscopy of anharmonic molecular polaritons

Michael Reitz, Harsh Bhakta, Wei Xiong +1

We present a general and efficient approach to compute phase-resolved multidimensional spectra of anharmonic molecular polaritons, based on a semiclassical evolution of the molecul…

quant-ph2026

Permutationally symmetric molecular aggregates

Sricharan Raghavan-Chitra, Arghadip Koner, Joel Yuen-Zhou

Linear optical spectra of molecular aggregates are often approximated by classical optics methods such as the discrete-dipole approximation (DDA), coherent exciton scattering (CES)…

physics.optics2026

Dynamical Drexhage Effect: Amplified Emission in Time-Modulated Electromagnetic Environments

Juan Carlos Obeso Jureidini, Michael Reitz, Piper Fowler-Wright +4

We investigate the effect of nonrelativistic motion on the emission dynamics of a dipole emitter moving next to a reflecting interface. Within the formalism of macroscopic QED, we…

physics.optics2025

Towards coherent polaritonic circuits operating at room temperature

Addhyaya Sharma, Ezra Bader, Ravindra K. Yadav +6

Polariton condensation is a potential system state for performing analog computations, given that it exhibits quantum behavior at macroscopic scales readily probed with low-cost op…

physics.optics2025

High-Q microresonators unveil quantum rare events

Sricharan Raghavan-Chitra, Arghadip Koner, Joel Yuen-Zhou

Classical linear optics posits that at sufficiently low intensities, light propagation in dielectric media is governed solely by their linear susceptibilities. Here, we demonstrate…

quant-ph2025

Exploring the Delocalization of Dark States in a Multimode Optical Cavity

Kunyang Sun, Matthew Du, Joel Yuen-Zhou

The strong coupling between molecules and photonic modes in a Fabry-Pérot optical cavity, which forms hybrid light-matter states called polaritons, has been demonstrated as a promi…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Mapping molecular polariton transport via pump-probe microscopy

Piper Fowler-Wright, Michael Reitz, Joel Yuen-Zhou

We demonstrate how the transport properties of molecular polaritons in optical cavities can be extracted from a microscopic modeling of pump-probe spectroscopy. Our approach combin…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Quantum theory of surface lattice resonances

Michael Reitz, Stephan van den Wildenberg, Arghadip Koner +2

The collective interactions of nanoparticles arranged in periodic structures give rise to high- in-plane diffractive modes known as surface lattice resonances. While these reson…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Hidden nonlinear optical susceptibilities in linear polaritonic spectra

Arghadip Koner, Joel Yuen-Zhou

Linear spectra of molecular polaritons formed by molecules coupled to a microcavity photon mode are usually well described by classical linear optics, raising the question of w…

quant-ph2024

CUT-E as a expansion for multiscale molecular polariton dynamics

Juan B. Pérez-Sánchez, Arghadip Koner, Sricharan Raghavan-Chitra +1

Molecular polaritons arise when the collective coupling between an ensemble of molecules and an optical mode exceeds individual photon and molecular linewidths. The complexity…

quant-ph2024★ 14 cited

Nonlinear semiclassical spectroscopy of ultrafast molecular polariton dynamics

Michael Reitz, Arghadip Koner, Joel Yuen-Zhou

We introduce a theoretical framework that allows for the systematic and efficient description of the ultrafast nonlinear response of molecular polaritons, i.e., hybrid light-matter…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 1 cited

Enhancing the ODMR Signal of Organic Molecular Qubits

Yong Rui Poh, Joel Yuen-Zhou

In quantum information science and sensing, electron spins are often purified into a specific polarisation through an optical-spin interface, a process known as optically-detected…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 34 cited

When do molecular polaritons behave like optical filters?

Kai Schwennicke, Arghadip Koner, Juan B. Pérez-Sánchez +4

This review outlines several linear optical effects featured by molecular polaritons arising in the collective strong light-matter coupling regime. Under weak laser irradiation and…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Radiative pumping vs vibrational relaxation of molecular polaritons: a bosonic mapping approach

Juan B. Pérez-Sánchez, Joel Yuen-Zhou

We present a formalism to study molecular polaritons based on the bosonization of molecular vibronic states. This formalism accommodates an arbitrary number of molecules , excit…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 46 cited

Alternant Hydrocarbon Diradicals as Optically Addressable Molecular Qubits

Yong Rui Poh, Dmitry Morozov, Nathanael P. Kazmierczak +3

High-spin molecules allow for bottom-up qubit design and are promising platforms for magnetic sensing and quantum information science. Optical addressability of molecular electron…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 12 cited

Blackbody radiation and thermal effects on chemical reactions and phase transitions in cavities

Sindhana Pannir-Sivajothi, Joel Yuen-Zhou

An important question in polariton chemistry is whether reacting molecules are in thermal equilibrium with their surroundings. If not, can experimental changes observed in reaction…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 25 cited

Extracting accurate light-matter couplings from disordered polaritons

Kai Schwennicke, Noel C. Giebink, Joel Yuen-Zhou

The vacuum Rabi splitting (VRS) in molecular polaritons stands as a fundamental measure of collective light-matter coupling. Despite its significance, the impact of molecular disor…

physics.chem-ph2024

Precision Franck-Condon spectroscopy from highly-excited vibrational states

Sindhana Pannir-Sivajothi, Joel Yuen-Zhou

As per the Franck-Condon principle, absorption spectroscopy reveals changes in nuclear geometry in molecules or solids upon electronic excitation. It is often assumed these changes…

quant-ph2023

Linear response of molecular polaritons

Joel Yuen-Zhou, Arghadip Koner

In this article, we show that the collective light-matter strong coupling regime, where molecular emitters couple to the photon mode of an optical cavity, can be mapped to a qu…

quant-ph2023★ 25 cited

Collective Polaritonic Effects on Chemical Dynamics Suppressed by Disorder

Juan B. Pérez-Sánchez, Federico Mellini, Noel C. Giebink +1

We present a powerful formalism, disordered collective dynamics using truncated equations (d-CUT-E), to simulate the ultrafast quantum dynamics of molecular polaritons in the colle…

physics.chem-ph2023

Thermodynamic coupling of reactions via few-molecule vibrational polaritons

Arghadip Koner, Matthew Du, Sindhana Pannir-Sivajothi +2

Interaction between light and molecular vibrations leads to hybrid light-matter states called vibrational polaritons. Even though many intriguing phenomena have been predicted for…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 91 cited

Swinging between shine and shadow: Theoretical advances on thermally-activated vibropolaritonic chemistry (a perspective)

Jorge A. Campos-Gonzalez-Angulo, Yong Rui Poh, Matthew Du +1

Polariton chemistry has emerged as an appealing branch of synthetic chemistry that promises mode selectivity and a cleaner approach to kinetic control. Of particular interest are t…