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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2023

Tuning the Coherent Propagation of Organic Exciton-Polaritons through the Cavity Q-factor.

Ruth H Tichauer, Ilia Sokolovskii, Gerrit Groenhof

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Strong light-matter interactions in hybrid polaritonic systems.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2026
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  4. Nano letters · 2026
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  6. Exciton-polariton photodiodes.Nature communications · 2026
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  8. Perspective on Many-Body Methods for Molecular Polaritonic Systems.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2025
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  14. Tuning the Coherent Propagation of Organic Exciton-Polaritons through the Cavity Q-factor.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023
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3 authors.

Ruth H TichauerDepartamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada and Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, E-28049, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9808-6396
Ilia SokolovskiiNanoscience Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3367-0660
Gerrit GroenhofNanoscience Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8148-5334

Funding

Academy of Finland 323996H2020 European Research Council ERC-2016-StG-714870Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades CEX2018-000805-MMinisterio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades PID2021-125894NB-I00
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transport of excitons in organic materials can be enhanced through polariton formation when the interaction strength between these excitons and the confined light modes of an optical resonator exceeds their decay rates. While the polariton lifetime is determined by the Q(uality)-factor of the optical resonator, the polariton group velocity is not. Instead, the latter is solely determined by the polariton dispersion. Yet, experiments suggest that the Q-factor also controls the polariton propagation velocity. To understand this observation, the authors perform molecular dynamics simulations of Rhodamine chromophores strongly coupled to Fabry-Pérot cavities with various Q-factors. The results suggest that propagation in the aforementioned experiments is initially dominated by ballistic motion of upper polariton states at their group velocities, which leads to a rapid expansion of the wavepacket. Cavity decay in combination with non-adiabatic population transfer into dark states, rapidly depletes these bright states, causing the wavepacket to contract. However, because population transfer is reversible, propagation continues, but as a diffusion process, at lower velocity. By controlling the lifetime of bright states, the Q-factor determines the duration of the ballistic phase and the diffusion coefficient in the diffusive regime. Thus, polariton propagation in organic microcavities can be effectively tuned through the Q-factor.

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excitation energy transferFabry-Pérot cavitymolecular dynamicspolaritonstrong light-matter coupling

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