Engineering quantum materials with chiral optical cavities

Abstract

Strong light–matter coupling in quantum cavities provides a pathway to break fundamental materials symmetries, like time-reversal symmetry in chiral cavities. This Comment discusses the potential to realize non-equilibrium states of matter that have so far been only accessible in ultrafast and ultrastrong laser-driven materials.

Umberto De Giovannini

Associate Professor

My research interests include ab-initio light matter interactions and numerical methods.