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Energy-efficient pathway for selectively exciting solute molecules to high vibrational states via solvent vibration-polariton pumping

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  • Tao E. Li

    (University of Pennsylvania
    Yale University)

  • Abraham Nitzan

    (University of Pennsylvania
    Tel Aviv University)

  • Joseph E. Subotnik

    (University of Pennsylvania)

Abstract

Selectively exciting target molecules to high vibrational states is inefficient in the liquid phase, which restricts the use of IR pumping to catalyze ground-state chemical reactions. Here, we demonstrate that this inefficiency can sometimes be solved by confining the liquid to an optical cavity under vibrational strong coupling conditions. For a liquid solution of 13CO2 solute in a 12CO2 solvent, cavity molecular dynamics simulations show that exciting a polariton (hybrid light-matter state) of the solvent with an intense laser pulse, under suitable resonant conditions, may lead to a very strong (>3 quanta) and ultrafast (

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  • Tao E. Li & Abraham Nitzan & Joseph E. Subotnik, 2022. "Energy-efficient pathway for selectively exciting solute molecules to high vibrational states via solvent vibration-polariton pumping," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-8, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-022-31703-8
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31703-8
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