Communications Physics (May 2022)

Disorder enhanced vibrational entanglement and dynamics in polaritonic chemistry

  • David Wellnitz,
  • Guido Pupillo,
  • Johannes Schachenmayer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-00892-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Experiments have shown that coupling ensembles of molecules to a cavity mode can modify chemical reactions, though theoretical studies have struggled to model the complexity of this many-body system. Here, matrix product states are used to study the reaction-relevant many-body quantum dynamics, revealing the importance of disorder on entanglement build-up.