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Semi-Empirical Haken-Strobl Model for Molecular Spin Qubits
Katy Aruachan, Yamil J. Colón, Daniel Aravena +1
Understanding the physical processes that determine the relaxation and dephasing times of molecular spin qubits is critical for envisioned applications in quantum met…
Lindblad theory for incoherently-driven electron transport in molecular nanojunctions
Felipe Recabal, Felipe Herrera
We study electron transport in molecular nanojunctions that are driven by incoherent radiation using Markovian quantum dynamics based on the Lindblad quantum master equation. Gener…
Open quantum dynamics of strongly coupled oscillators with multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree propagation and Markovian quantum jumps
Johan F. Triana, Felipe Herrera
Modeling the non-equilibrium dissipative dynamics of strongly interacting quantized degrees of freedom is a fundamental problem in several branches of physics and chemistry. We imp…
Machine learning identification of organic compounds using visible light
Thulasi Bikku, Rubén A. Fritz, Yamil J. Colón +1
Identifying chemical compounds is essential in several areas of science and engineering. Laser-based techniques are promising for autonomous compound detection because the optical…
Ultrafast modulation of vibrational polaritons for controlling the quantum field statistics at mid-infrared frequencies
Johan F. Triana, Felipe Herrera
Controlling the quantum field statistics of confined light is a long-standing goal in integrated photonics. We show that by coupling molecular vibrations with a confined mid-infrar…
Semi-empirical Quantum Optics for Mid-Infrared Molecular Nanophotonics
Johan F. Triana, Mauricio Arias, Jun Nishida +6
Nanoscale infrared (IR) resonators with sub-diffraction limited mode volumes and open geometries have emerged as new platforms for implementing cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED)…
Laser-assisted binding of ultracold polar molecules with Rydberg atoms in the van der Waals regime
Vanessa Olaya, Jesús Pérez-Ríos, Felipe Herrera
We study ultracold long-range collisions of heteronuclear alkali-metal dimers with a reservoir gas of alkali-metal Rydberg atoms in a two-photon laser excitation scheme. In a low d…
Disordered ensembles of strongly coupled single-molecule plasmonic picocavities as nonlinear optical metamaterials
Felipe Herrera, Marina Litinskaya
We propose to use molecular picocavity ensembles as macroscopic coherent nonlinear optical devices enabled by nanoscale strong coupling. For a generic picocavity model that include…
The Shape of the Electric Dipole Function Determines the Sub-Picosecond Dynamics of Anharmonic Vibrational Polaritons
Johan F. Triana, Federico J. Hernández, Felipe Herrera
We develop a fully quantum mechanical methodology to describe the static properties and the dynamics of a single anharmonic vibrational mode interacting with a quantized infrared c…
coefficients for interacting Rydberg atoms and alkali-metal dimers
Vanessa Olaya, Jesús Pérez-Ríos, Felipe Herrera
We study the van der Waals interaction between Rydberg alkali-metal atoms with fine structure (; ) and heteronuclear alkali-metal dimers in the ground rovibrationa…
Molecular polaritons for controlling chemistry with quantum optics
Felipe Herrera, Jeffrey Owrutsky
This is a tutorial-style introduction to the field of molecular polaritons. We describe the basic physical principles and consequences of strong light-matter coupling common to mol…
Multi-level quantum Rabi model for anharmonic vibrational polaritons
Federico Hernández, Felipe Herrera
We propose a cavity QED approach to describe light-matter interaction between an individual anharmonic molecular vibration and an infrared cavity field. Starting from a generic Mor…
An Instrument-Free Demonstration of Quantum Key Distribution for High-School Students
Maria Jose Carreño, Jonathan Sepúlveda, Silvia Tecpan +2
It has become increasingly common for high-school students to see media reports on the importance of quantum mechanics in the development of next-generation industries such as drug…
Vacuum-enhanced optical nonlinearities with organic molecular photoswitches
Marina Litinskaya, Felipe Herrera
We propose a cavity QED scheme to enable cross-phase modulation between two arbitrarily weak classical fields in the optical domain, using organic molecular photoswitches as a diso…
AdS and Lifshitz black hole solutions in conformal gravity sourced with a scalar field
Felipe Herrera, Yerko Vásquez
In this paper we obtain exact asymptotically anti-de Sitter black hole solutions and asymptotically Lifshitz black hole solutions with dynamical exponents and of four-d…
Theory of Nanoscale Organic Cavities: The Essential Role of Vibration-Photon Dressed States
Felipe Herrera, Frank C. Spano
The interaction of organic molecules and molecular aggregates with electromagnetic fields that are strongly confined inside optical cavities within nanoscale volumes, has allowed t…
Dark Vibronic Polaritons and the Spectroscopy of Organic Microcavities
Felipe Herrera, Frank C. Spano
Organic microcavities are photonic nanostructures that strongly confine the electromagnetic field, allowing exotic quantum regimes of light-matter interaction with disordered organ…
Absorption and Photoluminescence in Organic Cavity QED
Felipe Herrera, Frank C. Spano
Organic microcavities can be engineered to reach exotic quantum regimes of strong and ultrastrong light-matter coupling. However, the microscopic interpretation of their spectrosco…
Cavity-controlled chemistry in molecular ensembles
Felipe Herrera, Frank C. Spano
The demonstration of strong and ultrastrong coupling regimes of cavity QED with polyatomic molecules has opened new routes to control chemical dynamics at the nanoscale. We show th…
Synchronization of Interacting Quantum Dipoles
Bihui Zhu, Johannes Schachenmayer, Minghui Xu +4
Macroscopic ensembles of radiating dipoles are ubiquitous in the physical and natural sciences. In the classical limit the dipoles can be described as damped-driven oscillators, wh…
Quantum nonlinear optics with polar J-aggregates in microcavities
Felipe Herrera, Borja Peropadre, Leonardo A. Pachon +2
We show that an ensemble of organic dye molecules with permanent electric dipole moments embedded in a microcavity can lead to strong optical nonlinearities at the single photon le…
Infrared-dressed entanglement of cold open-shell polar molecules for universal matchgate quantum computing
Felipe Herrera, Yudong Cao, Sabre Kais +1
Implementing a scalable quantum information processor using polar molecules in optical lattices requires precise control over the long-range dipole-dipole interaction between molec…
Entanglement creation in cold molecular gases using strong laser pulses
Felipe Herrera, Sabre Kais, K. Birgitta Whaley
While many-particle entanglement can be found in natural solids and strongly interacting atomic and molecular gases, generating highly entangled states between weakly interacting p…
Investigating polaron transitions with polar molecules
Felipe Herrera, Kirk W. Madison, Roman V. Krems +1
We determine the phase diagram of a polaron model with mixed breathing-mode and Su-Schrieffer-Heeger couplings and show that it has two sharp transitions, in contrast to pure model…