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Catalysis by Dark States in Vibropolaritonic Chemistry

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07214v3
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 08:13:34 GMT
Title: Catalysis by Dark States in Vibropolaritonic Chemistry
Authors: Matthew Du, Joel Yuen-Zhou
Abstract summary: Experimental changes in thermally-activated reaction kinetics due to polariton formation appear entropically unlikely. We show that the overlooked dark modes, while parked at the same energy as bare molecular vibrations, are robustly delocalized across $sim$2-3 molecules.
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Abstract: Collective strong coupling between a disordered ensemble of $N$ localized molecular vibrations and a resonant optical cavity mode gives rise to 2 polariton and $N-1\gg2$ dark modes. Thus, experimental changes in thermally-activated reaction kinetics due to polariton formation appear entropically unlikely and remain a puzzle. Here we show that the overlooked dark modes, while parked at the same energy as bare molecular vibrations, are robustly delocalized across $\sim$2-3 molecules, yielding enhanced channels of vibrational cooling, concomitantly catalyzing a chemical reaction. As an illustration, we theoretically show a $\approx$50\% increase in an electron transfer rate due to enhanced product stabilization. The reported effects can arise when the homogeneous linewidths of the dark modes are smaller than their energy spacings.

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