Vibrational and electronic strong light-matter coupling with molecular excitations

  1. del Pino Gutiérrez, Francisco Javier
Zuzendaria:
  1. Francisco J. García Vidal Zuzendaria
  2. Johannes Maximilian Feis Zuzendaria

Defentsa unibertsitatea: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Fecha de defensa: 2018(e)ko iraila-(a)k 07

Epaimahaia:
  1. Juan José García Ripoll Presidentea
  2. Francesca Maria Marchetti Idazkaria
  3. Jonathan Keeling Kidea
  4. Daniele Sanvitto Kidea
  5. Elisabet Romero Kidea

Mota: Tesia

Laburpena

This thesis is devoted to the investigation of polaritons supported by organic microcavities. Two distinct types of such states are present in these systems, namely, exciton-polaritons and vibro-polaritons, formed upon hybridization of molecular excitations with optical and mid-infrared photons respectively. We provide fundamental explorations of both scenarios, by employing models of increased complexity that are tractable in the framework of quantum optics and quasi-exact methods in condensed matter physics. Our results demonstrate the crucial role of the molecular environment and phonons in determining the steady-state linear spectra, the internal structure and the short-time dynamics of organic polaritons.