An Ab initio Framework for Simulating Ultrafast Nonlinear Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics Spectra

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24180v1
• Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:47:55 GMT
• Title: An Ab initio Framework for Simulating Ultrafast Nonlinear Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics Spectra
• Abstract summary: We introduce a theoretical framework for the simulation of ultrafast transient absorption pump-probe spectra of molecular polaritons.<n> cQUEDA offers wide-ranging applicability and can be generalized to model diverse nonlinear spectroscopic signals and quantum optics responses.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this letter we introduce a theoretical framework for the simulation of ultrafast transient absorption pump-probe spectra of molecular polaritons. We derive and implement the cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) evolution equations of polaritonic states within the framework of the quasi-classical doorway-Window pproximation, hereto referred cQUEDA /sikeda/. This framework uses outputs from mixed quantum-classical dynamics simulations in the absence of the cavity. Then by including cavity parameters accounting for cavity rate loss, coupling strength, and frequency detuning, we simulate transient absorption pump-probe spectra. Consequently, we address one of the main standing problems of cavity QED, the simulation of polaritons ultrafast dynamics and nonlinear optical properties. We demonstrate the performance of our method by computing the ground-state bleach (GSB), stimulated emission (SE), and excited-state absorption (ESA) contributions of transient absorption pump-probe spectra of pyrazine strongly coupled to a cavity. The cQUEDA is an on-the-fly computationally efficient framework with low computer requirements: the pyrazine calculations, for example, took minutes on modern laptops. cQUEDA offers wide-ranging applicability and can be generalized to model diverse nonlinear spectroscopic signals and quantum optics responses.

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