Many-molecule reaction triggered by a single photon in polaritonic chemistry
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UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada; UAM. Centro de Investigación en Fisica de la Materia Condensada (IFIMAC)Publisher
American Physical SocietyDate
2017-09-27Citation
10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.136001
Physical Review Letters 119.13 (2017): 136001
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0031-9007 (print); 1079-7114 (online)DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.136001Funded by
This work has been funded by the European Research Council under Grants No. ERC-2011-AdG-290981 and No. ERC- 2016-STG-714870, by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme under Grant No. FP7-PEOPLE- 2013-CIG-618229, and the Spanish MINECO under Contract No. MAT2014-53432-C5-5-R and the “María de Maeztu” program for Units of Excellence in R&D (MDM-2014-0377).Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/290881; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/714870; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/630996; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/618229; Gobierno de España. MAT2014-53432-C5-5-R; Gobierno de España. FIS2015-64951-REditor's Version
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.136001Subjects
Molecules; Photon; Chemical transformation; Supermolecule; FísicaRights
© 2017 American Physical SocietyAbstract
The second law of photochemistry states that, in most cases, no more than one molecule is activated for an excited-state reaction for each photon absorbed by a collection of molecules. In this Letter, we demonstrate that it is possible to trigger a many-molecule reaction using only one photon by strongly coupling the molecular ensemble to a confined light mode. The collective nature of the resulting hybrid states of the system (the so-called polaritons) leads to the formation of a polaritonic "supermolecule" involving the degrees of freedom of all molecules, opening a reaction path on which all involved molecules undergo a chemical transformation. We theoretically investigate the system conditions for this effect to take place and be enhanced.
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