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Coherent Light Harvesting through Strong Coupling to Confined Light
[Image: see text] When photoactive molecules interact strongly with confined light modes, new hybrid light–matter states may form: the polaritons. These polaritons are coherent superpositions of excitations of the molecules and of the cavity photon. Recently, polaritons were shown to mediate energy...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6129961/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30085671 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02032 |
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author | Groenhof, Gerrit Toppari, J. Jussi |
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description | [Image: see text] When photoactive molecules interact strongly with confined light modes, new hybrid light–matter states may form: the polaritons. These polaritons are coherent superpositions of excitations of the molecules and of the cavity photon. Recently, polaritons were shown to mediate energy transfer between chromophores at distances beyond the Förster limit. Here we explore the potential of strong coupling for light-harvesting applications by means of atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of mixtures of photoreactive and non-photo-reactive molecules strongly coupled to a single confined light mode. These molecules are spatially separated and present at different concentrations. Our simulations suggest that while the excitation is initially fully delocalized over all molecules and the confined light mode, it very rapidly localizes onto one of the photoreactive molecules, which then undergoes the reaction. |
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spelling | pubmed-61299612018-09-12 Coherent Light Harvesting through Strong Coupling to Confined Light Groenhof, Gerrit Toppari, J. Jussi J Phys Chem Lett [Image: see text] When photoactive molecules interact strongly with confined light modes, new hybrid light–matter states may form: the polaritons. These polaritons are coherent superpositions of excitations of the molecules and of the cavity photon. Recently, polaritons were shown to mediate energy transfer between chromophores at distances beyond the Förster limit. Here we explore the potential of strong coupling for light-harvesting applications by means of atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of mixtures of photoreactive and non-photo-reactive molecules strongly coupled to a single confined light mode. These molecules are spatially separated and present at different concentrations. Our simulations suggest that while the excitation is initially fully delocalized over all molecules and the confined light mode, it very rapidly localizes onto one of the photoreactive molecules, which then undergoes the reaction. American Chemical Society 2018-08-07 2018-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6129961/ /pubmed/30085671 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02032 Text en Copyright © 2018 American Chemical Society This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License (http://pubs.acs.org/page/policy/authorchoice_ccby_termsofuse.html) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the author and source are cited. |
spellingShingle | Groenhof, Gerrit Toppari, J. Jussi Coherent Light Harvesting through Strong Coupling to Confined Light |
title | Coherent Light Harvesting through Strong Coupling
to Confined Light |
title_full | Coherent Light Harvesting through Strong Coupling
to Confined Light |
title_fullStr | Coherent Light Harvesting through Strong Coupling
to Confined Light |
title_full_unstemmed | Coherent Light Harvesting through Strong Coupling
to Confined Light |
title_short | Coherent Light Harvesting through Strong Coupling
to Confined Light |
title_sort | coherent light harvesting through strong coupling
to confined light |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6129961/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30085671 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02032 |
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