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ArticleNature communications2023

Quantum dynamical effects of vibrational strong coupling in chemical reactivity.

Lachlan P Lindoy, Arkajit Mandal, David R Reichman

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29 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Resonant Enhancement of Photolysis through Plasmon-Vibrational Coupling.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026
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  5. Cluster Formation and Phase Transitions Induced by Vibrational Strong Coupling.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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  9. Polaritonic Control of Blackbody Infrared Radiative Dissociation.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2025
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  14. Do Molecular Geometries Change Under Vibrational Strong Coupling?The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2024
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  20. Machine Learning for Polaritonic Chemistry: Accessing Chemical Kinetics.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2024
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3 authors.

Lachlan P LindoyDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1888-6490
Arkajit MandalDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9088-2980
David R ReichmanDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027, USA. drr2103@columbia.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5265-5637

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) 1954791
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent experiments suggest that ground state chemical reactivity can be modified when placing molecular systems inside infrared cavities where molecular vibrations are strongly coupled to electromagnetic radiation. This phenomenon lacks a firm theoretical explanation. Here, we employ an exact quantum dynamics approach to investigate a model of cavity-modified chemical reactions in the condensed phase. The model contains the coupling of the reaction coordinate to a generic solvent, cavity coupling to either the reaction coordinate or a non-reactive mode, and the coupling of the cavity to lossy modes. Thus, many of the most important features needed for realistic modeling of the cavity modification of chemical reactions are included. We find that when a molecule is coupled to an optical cavity it is essential to treat the problem quantum mechanically to obtain a quantitative account of alterations to reactivity. We find sizable and sharp changes in the rate constant that are associated with quantum mechanical state splittings and resonances. The features that emerge from our simulations are closer to those observed in experiments than are previous calculations, even for realistically small values of coupling and cavity loss. This work highlights the importance of a fully quantum treatment of vibrational polariton chemistry.

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