CCQ Seminar: Raphael Ribeiro

In this talk, I am going to present some of our recent research on the manipulation of molecular dynamics with optical microcavities. First, I will illustrate how exciton strong coupling can be harnessed to enhance singlet fission yield and to induce long-range energy transfer in organic semiconductors. I will then, focus on the many-body quantum correlations which arise when molecular phonons interact strongly with infrared microcavities and introduce the theory we constructed to interpret the first nonlinear optical spectra measured for these systems. I will conclude with a discussion of potential applications of strongly-coupled chemistry to the engineering of molecular-based quantum fluids.