The role of cavity losses on non-adiabatic couplings and dynamics in polaritonic chemistry
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<p>We present a non-Hermitian formulation of the polaritonic structure of azobenzene strongly coupled to a photonic mode that explicitly accounts for the fleeting nature of the photon-molecule interaction. This formalism reveals that the polaritonic non-adiabatic couplings that facilitate cis-trans isomerization can be dramatically modified by photonic dissipation. We perform Fewest-Switches Surface Hopping dynamics on the surfaces that derive from our non-Hermitian formalism and find that the polaritonic isomerization yields are strongly suppressed for moderate to large photon dissipation rates. These findings highlight the important role that the finite</p><p>lifetime of photonic degrees of freedom play in polaritonic chemistry.</p>
2019 ◽
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