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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry letters2024

Mechanism of Molecular Polariton Decoherence in the Collective Light-Matter Couplings Regime.

Benjamin X K Chng, Wenxiang Ying, Yifan Lai, A Nickolas Vamivakas, Steven T Cundiff, Todd D Krauss, Pengfei Huo

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Benjamin X K ChngDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States.ORCID 0009-0001-1368-8719
Wenxiang YingDepartment of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3188-020X
Yifan LaiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States.
A Nickolas VamivakasDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4253-1611
Steven T CundiffDepartment of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7119-5197
Todd D KraussDepartment of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4860-874X
Pengfei HuoDepartment of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8639-9299

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Molecular polaritons, the hybridization of electronic states in molecules with photonic excitation inside a cavity, play an important role in fundamental quantum science and technology. Understanding the decoherence mechanism of molecular polaritons is among the most significant fundamental questions. We theoretically demonstrate that hybridizing many molecular excitons in a cavity protects the overall quantum coherence from phonon-induced decoherence. The polariton coherence time can be prolonged up to 100 fs with a realistic collective Rabi splitting and quality factor at room temperature, compared to the typical electronic coherence time which is around 15 fs. Our numerically exact simulations and analytic theory suggest that the dominant decoherence mechanism is the population transfer from the upper polariton state to the dark state manifold. Increasing the collective coupling strength will increase the energy gap between these two sets of states and thus prolong the coherence lifetime. We further derived valuable scaling relations that directly indicate how polariton coherence depends on the number of molecules, Rabi splittings, and light-matter detunings.

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