activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

physics.optics2026

Mode-Selective and Anharmonicity-Controlled Energy Transport in Cavity-Coupled Water

Sachith Wickramasinghe, Michael Fowler, Gerrit Groenhof +1

Recent experiments demonstrate the modification of chemical dynamics via cavity-enhanced vibrational energy transport. Here, we provide a microscopic account of both photonic and m…

physics.chem-ph2026

Toward Reliable Spectroscopic Analysis of Reaction Kinetics in Polaritonic Chemistry

Robrecht M. A. Vergauwe, J. Jussi Toppari, Gerrit Groenhof

Recent reports suggest that chemical reaction rates can change when reactants are placed inside an optical cavity. These effects have been attributed to the hybridization of molecu…

physics.chem-ph2026

Benchmarking mixed quantum-classical dynamics for collective electronic strong coupling

Arun Kumar Kanakati, Oriol Vendrell, Gerrit Groenhof

Experiments indicate that collective coupling of molecular ensembles to confined optical modes can modify excited-state dynamics and photochemical reactivity. To describe such cavi…

physics.optics2025

Incorporating QM/MM molecular dynamics into the few-mode quantization approach for light-matter interactions in nanophotonic structures

Ruth H. Tichauer, Maksim Lednev, Gerrit Groenhof +1

In the context of light-matter interactions between organic chromophores and confined photons of (plasmonic) nano-resonators, we introduce a general framework that couples ab initi…

physics.chem-ph2024

Disentangling enhanced diffusion and ballistic motion of excitons coupled to Bloch surface waves with molecular dynamics simulations

Ilia Sokolovskii, Yunyi Luo, Gerrit Groenhof

Placing an organic material on top of a Bragg mirror can significantly enhance exciton transport. Such enhancement has been attributed to strong coupling between the evanescent Blo…

physics.chem-ph2024

Quantum dynamics simulation of exciton-polariton transport

Niclas Krupp, Gerrit Groenhof, Oriol Vendrell

Strong coupling between excitons and confined modes of light presents a promising pathway to tunable and enhanced energy transport in organic materials. By forming hybrid light-mat…