ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Many-body Theory of Local Chemistry in Cavities
Multiple experiments have demonstrated that chemical reactivity can be modified by collectively coupling molecules to electro-magnetic vacuum-modes of a cavity. This has led to a new interdisciplinary research field, often denoted as "polaritonic chemistry". Despite great effort, even key underlying theoretical mechanisms are not understood today. This has recently led to controversies about fundamental origins of the observations in the collective strong coupling regime. The main goal of MATHLOCCA is to develop a first verifiable quantum many-body theory for the problem. The theory will be truly many-body, discovering new physics in molecular models with a large number of coupled…
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