Understanding and controlling reactivity under vibrational and electronic strong coupling: Theoretical modelling (A05)

• Subject Area: Theoretical Chemistry: Molecules, Materials, Surfaces ; Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 510943930

This project is about using strong coupling (SC) of cavity or plasmonic modes to molecules as a possible new tool in chemistry – with prospects and limitations evaluated by theoretical modelling. Both concrete molecules and unimolecular reactions – ligand dissociation in aryl halides, and photo-switching of molecules – as well as conceptual models will be studied by quantum or quantum-classical methods.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1636: Elementary Processes of Light-Driven Reactions at Nanoscale Metals
• Applicant Institution: Universität Potsdam
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Janet Anders; Professor Dr. Peter Saalfrank