Journal article
Modifying chemical landscapes by coupling to vacuum fields
JA Hutchison, T Schwartz, C Genet, E Devaux, TW Ebbesen
Angewandte Chemie International Edition | Published : 2012
Abstract
Electromagnetic vacuum fields are omnipresent in our universe, inducing many events such as spontaneous emission, Lamb shift, and Van der Waals forces. As demonstrated here, a chemical reaction can be influenced by strongly coupling the energy landscape governing the reaction pathway to vacuum fields in an optical cavity (see picture; MC=merocyanine). Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
Grants
Awarded by European Commission
Funding Acknowledgements
This research was supported by the ERC (grant no. 227577).