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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 117, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.153601
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- European Research Council [22577]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) Equipex 'Union' [ANR-10-EQPX-5201]
- Labex 'Nanostructures in Interaction with their Environment' (NIE) Projects [ANR-11-LABX-0058-NIE]
- University of Strasbourg Institute of Advanced Studies (USIAS) within the Investissement d'Avenir program [ANR-10-IDEX-0002-02]
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From the high vibrational dipolar strength offered by molecular liquids, we demonstrate that a molecular vibration can be ultrastrongly coupled to multiple IR cavity modes, with Rabi splittings reaching 24% of the vibration frequencies. As a proof of the ultrastrong coupling regime, our experimental data unambiguously reveal the contributions to the polaritonic dynamics coming from the antiresonant terms in the interaction energy and from the dipolar self-energy of the molecular vibrations themselves. In particular, we measure the opening of a genuine vibrational polaritonic band gap of ca. 60 meV. We also demonstrate that the multimode splitting effect defines a whole vibrational ladder of heavy polaritonic states perfectly resolved. These findings reveal the broad possibilities in the vibrational ultrastrong coupling regime which impact both the optical and the molecular properties of such coupled systems, in particular, in the context of mode-selective chemistry.
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