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ArticleNanophotonics (Berlin, Germany)2024

Resonance theory of vibrational polariton chemistry at the normal incidence.

Wenxiang Ying, Michael A D Taylor, Pengfei Huo

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Article in Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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  3. Resonant Enhancement of Photolysis through Plasmon-Vibrational Coupling.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026
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  4. Polaritonic Control of Blackbody Infrared Radiative Dissociation.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2025
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  7. Molecular Polarizability under Vibrational Strong Coupling.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2025
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  8. Strong Coupling of Organic Molecules 2023 (SCOM23).Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2024
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Wenxiang YingDepartment of Chemistry, University of Rochester, 120 Trustee Road, Rochester, NY 14627, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3188-020X
Michael A D TaylorHajim School of Engineering, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3300-6834
Pengfei HuoDepartment of Chemistry, University of Rochester, 120 Trustee Road, Rochester, NY 14627, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8639-9299

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a theory that explains the resonance effect of the vibrational strong coupling (VSC) modified reaction rate constant at the normal incidence of a Fabry-Pérot (FP) cavity. This analytic theory is based on a mechanistic hypothesis that cavity modes promote the transition from the ground state to the vibrational excited state of the reactant, which is the rate-limiting step of the reaction. This mechanism for a single molecule coupled to a single-mode cavity has been confirmed by numerically exact simulations in our recent work in [J. Chem. Phys. 159, 084104 (2023)]. Using Fermi's golden rule (FGR), we formulate this rate constant for many molecules coupled to many cavity modes inside a FP microcavity. The theory provides a possible explanation for the resonance condition of the observed VSC effect and a plausible explanation of why only at the normal incident angle there is the resonance effect, whereas, for an oblique incidence, there is no apparent VSC effect for the rate constant even though both cases generate Rabi splitting and forming polariton states. On the other hand, the current theory cannot explain the collective effect when a large number of molecules are collectively coupled to the cavity, and future work is required to build a complete microscopic theory to explain all observed phenomena in VSC.

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normal incidence resonancepolariton chemistryvibrational strong coupling

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