Cavity-modified ground-state chemical reactivity

DIPC Seminars

Speaker

Clàudia Climent Biescas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

When

2018/10/19
14:00

Place

Donostia International Physics Center

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Polaritonic chemistry is an emerging field which studies the potential to manipulate chemical structure and reactivity when matter excitations and confined light modes are strongly coupled forming polaritons (hybrid light- matter states). While the general theory of polaritonic chemistry due to electronic strong coupling is well established [1], theoretical studies describing the modification of ground-state chemical reactivity through strong coupling between molecular vibrations and microcavity modes [2] are still missing. In this talk I will give a general introduction to this subject and then discuss some results of our recent work [3] dealing on how ground-state chemical reactivity may be modified in a cavity QED escenario. [1] J. Feist et al, ACS Phot. 5 (2018) 205 [2] A. Thomas et al, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55 (2016) 11462 [3] J. Galego et al, arXiv:1807.10846 Host: David Casanova