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Cavity control of nonlinear phononics

Dominik M. Juraschek1,*,†, Tomáš Neuman1,*, Johannes Flick1,2, and Prineha Narang1,‡

  • 1Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
  • 2Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute, New York, New York 10010, USA

  • *These authors contributed equally to this work.
  • †djuraschek@seas.harvard.edu
  • ‡prineha@seas.harvard.edu
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Phys. Rev. Research 3, L032046 – Published 16 August, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.L032046

Abstract

Nonlinear interactions between phonon modes govern the behavior of vibrationally highly excited solids and molecules. Here we demonstrate theoretically control over the redistribution of energy from a highly excited coherent infrared-active phonon state into other vibrational degrees of freedom of the system using optical cavities. Specifically, we tune the polaritonic splitting of an infrared-active mode in the cavity so that it is pushed into resonance with other phonon modes of the system. This technique makes it possible to tune the efficiency of energy redistribution and even to change the underlying scattering mechanism, which possibly enables the creation of phonon-induced states in a broad scale of materials that do not naturally exhibit the required resonance conditions.

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Phys. Rev. Research 3, L032046– Published 16 August, 2021
  • Received 25 February 2020
  • Revised 14 April 2021
  • Accepted 28 July 2021
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