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

227 citations · 810 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

physics.chem-ph2023★ 2 cited

Stochastic Metholodgy Shows Molecular Interactions Protect 2D Polaritons

Nadine Bradbury, Raphael Ribeiro, Justin R. Caram +1

We introduce stochastic techniques that enable the simulations of polaritons resulting from placing giant 2D molecular aggregate crystals with interacting excitonic dyes in…

physics.chem-ph2023

Chemical equilibrium under vibrational strong coupling

Kaihong Sun, Raphael F. Ribeiro

We introduce a theory of chemical equilibrium in optical microcavities, which allows us to relate equilibrium reaction quotients in different electromagnetic environments. Our theo…

quant-ph2023★ 23 cited

Theoretical Analysis of Exciton Wave Packet Dynamics in Polaritonic Wires

Gustavo J. R. Aroeira, Kyle Kairys, Raphael F. Ribeiro

We present a comprehensive study of exciton wave packet evolution in disordered lossless polaritonic wires. Our simulations reveal signatures of ballistic, diffusive, and subdiffus…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 31 cited

Vibrational polariton transport in disordered media

Enes Suyabatmaz, Raphael F. Ribeiro

Chemical reactions and energy transport phenomena have been experimentally reported to be significantly affected by strong light-matter interactions and vibrational polariton forma…

physics.chem-ph2021

Strong light-matter interaction effects on molecular ensembles

Raphael F. Ribeiro

Despite the potential paradigm breaking capability of microcavities to control chemical processes, the extent to which photonic devices change properties of molecular materials is…

physics.optics2021★ 31 cited

Generalization of the Tavis-Cummings model for multi-level anharmonic systems

Jorge A. Campos-Gonzalez-Angulo, Raphael F. Ribeiro, Joel Yuen-Zhou

The interaction between anharmonic quantum emitters (e.g., molecular vibrations) and confined electromagnetic fields gives rise to quantum states with optical and chemical properti…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 48 cited

Enhanced optical nonlinearities under strong light-matter coupling

Raphael F. Ribeiro, Jorge A. Campos-Gonzalez-Angulo, Noel C. Giebink +2

Optical microcavities and metallic nanostructures have been shown to significantly modulate the dynamics and spectroscopic response of molecular systems. We present a study of the…

physics.chem-ph2019★ 227 cited

Resonant catalysis of thermally-activated chemical reactions via vibrational polaritons

Jorge Campos-Gonzalez-Angulo, Raphael F. Ribeiro, Joel Yuen-Zhou

In the regime of ensemble vibrational strong coupling (VSC), a macroscopic number of molecular transitions couple to each resonant cavity mode, yielding two hybrid light-matter…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 96 cited

Manipulating Optical Nonlinearities of Molecular Polaritons by Delocalization

Bo Xiang, Raphael F. Ribeiro, Yingmin Li +4

Optical nonlinearities - how light-matter interactions are influenced by previous interactions with photons, are key resources in the contemporary photonics toolbox, relevant to qu…

quant-ph2018★ 1 cited

Remote control of chemistry in optical cavities

Matthew Du, Raphael F. Ribeiro, Joel Yuen-Zhou

Manipulation of chemical reactivity often involves changing reagents or environmental conditions. Alternatively, strong coupling between light and matter offers a way to tunably hy…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 1 cited

Polariton Chemistry: controlling molecular dynamics with optical cavities

Raphael F. Ribeiro, Luis A. Martínez-Martínez, Matthew Du +2

Molecular polaritons are the optical excitations which emerge when molecular transitions interact strongly with confined electromagnetic fields. Increasing interest in the hybrid m…

quant-ph2018

Theory for polariton-assisted remote energy transfer

Matthew Du, Luis A. Martínez-Martínez, Raphael F. Ribeiro +3

Strong-coupling between light and matter produces hybridized states (polaritons) whose delocalization and electromagnetic character allow for novel modifications in spectroscopy an…

quant-ph2017

Revealing Hidden Vibration Polariton Interactions by 2D IR Spectroscopy

Bo Xiang, Raphael F. Ribeiro, Adam D. Dunkelberger +6

We report the first experimental two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) spectra of novel molecular photonic excitations - vibrational-polaritons. The application of advanced 2D IR spectr…

cond-mat.soft2017

Computational method for highly-constrained molecular dynamics of rigid bodies: coarse-grained simulation of auxetic two-dimensional protein crystals

J. A. Campos Gonzalez Angulo, G. Wiesehan, R. F. Ribeiro +1

The increasing number of protein-based metamaterials demands reliable and efficient theoretical and computational methods to study the physicochemical properties they may display.…

physics.app-ph2017★ 162 cited

Polariton-assisted Singlet Fission in Acene Aggregates

Luis A. Martínez-Martínez, Matthew Du, Raphael F. Ribeiro +2

Singlet fission is an important candidate to increase energy conversion efficiency in organic photovoltaics by providing a pathway to increase the quantum yield of excitons per pho…

physics.chem-ph2017★ 131 cited

Can ultrastrong coupling change ground state chemical reactions?

Luis A. Martínez-Martínez, Raphael F. Ribeiro, Jorge Campos-González-Angulo +1

Recent advancements on the fabrication of organic micro- and nanostructures have permitted the strong collective light-matter coupling regime to be reached with molecular materials…

quant-ph2017★ 8 cited

Vibronic Ground-state Degeneracies and the Berry Phase: A Continuous Symmetry Perspective

Raphael F. Ribeiro, Joel Yuen-Zhou

We develop a geometric construction to prove the inevitability of the electronic ground-state (adiabatic) Berry phase for a class of Jahn-Teller models with maximal continuous symm…

physics.chem-ph2017★ 5 cited

Continuous vibronic symmetries in Jahn-Teller models

Raphael F. Ribeiro, Joel Yuen-Zhou

We develop a systematic study of Jahn-Teller (JT) models with continuous symmetries by explor- ing their algebraic properties. The compact symmetric spaces corresponding to JT mode…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016★ 14 cited

Leading corrections to local approximations II (with turning points)

Raphael F. Ribeiro, Kieron Burke

Quantum corrections to Thomas-Fermi (TF) theory are investigated for noninteracting one-dimensional fermions with known uniform semiclassical approximations to the density and kine…

quant-ph2014★ 30 cited

Corrections to Thomas-Fermi densities at turning points and beyond

Raphael F. Ribeiro, Donghyung Lee, Attila Cangi +2

Uniform semiclassical approximations for the number and kinetic-energy densities are derived for many non-interacting fermions in one-dimensional potentials with two turning points…