Ab-Initio Vibro-Polaritonic Spectra in Strongly Coupled Cavity-Molecule Systems (2310.01871v1)
Abstract: Recent experiments have revealed the profound effect of strong light-matter interactions in optical cavities on the electronic ground state of molecular systems. This phenomenon, known as vibrational strong coupling (VSC), can modify reaction rates and induce the formation of molecular vibrational polaritons, hybrid states involving both photon modes and vibrational modes of molecules. We present an ab-initio methodology, based on the cavity Born-Oppenheimer Hartree-Fock ansatz, which is specifically powerful for ensembles of molecules, to calculate vibro-polaritonic IR spectra. This method allows a comprehensive analysis of these hybrid states. Our semi-classical approach, validated against full quantum simulations, reproduces key features of the vibro-polaritonic spectra. The underlying analytic gradients also pave the way for optimizing cavity-coupled molecular systems and performing semi-classical dynamics simulations
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