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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry letters2020

Polariton Transitions in Femtosecond Transient Absorption Studies of Ultrastrong Light-Molecule Coupling.

Courtney A DelPo, Bryan Kudisch, Kyu Hyung Park, Saeed-Uz-Zaman Khan, Francesca Fassioli, Daniele Fausti, Barry P Rand, Gregory D Scholes

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Article in The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32 citing papers in PubMed, 104 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Perspective on Many-Body Methods for Molecular Polaritonic Systems.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2025
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Courtney A DelPoDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2885-269X
Bryan KudischDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3352-5383
Kyu Hyung ParkDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.
Saeed-Uz-Zaman KhanDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.
Francesca FassioliDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.
Daniele FaustiDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.
Barry P RandDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4409-8751
Gregory D ScholesDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3336-7960
Princeton University · USScuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati · ITUniversity of Trieste · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Strong light-matter coupling is emerging as a fascinating way to tune optical properties and modify the photophysics of molecular systems. In this work, we studied a molecular chromophore under strong coupling with the optical mode of a Fabry-Perot cavity resonant to the first electronic absorption band. Using femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy, we investigated the transient response of the cavity-coupled molecules upon photoexcitation resonant to the upper and lower polaritons. We identified an excited state absorption from upper and lower polaritons to a state at the energy of the second cavity mode. Quantum mechanical calculations of the many-molecule energy structure of cavity polaritons suggest assignment of this state as a two-particle polaritonic state with optically allowed transitions from the upper and lower polaritons. We provide new physical insight into the role of two-particle polaritonic states in explaining transient signatures in hybrid light-matter coupling systems consistent with analogous many-body systems.

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