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Beyond ideal cavities: quantifying the impact of cavity dissipation on light-matter strong coupling

Giovanna Bruno·Enrico Busani·Lorenzo Gialli·Rosario Roberto Riso·Enrico Ronca
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Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics (Cavity-QED) offers a powerful framework for controlling light-matter interactions, yet first-principles approaches commonly assume ideal, lossless cavity fields. Here, we introduce a minimal extension to the Pauli-Fierz Hamiltonian that accounts for cavity dissipation through the experimentally accessible cavity quality factor Q. The electromagnetic field is described as a damped harmonic oscillator within the very weak damping approximation. In this framework, cavity losses only enter the light-matter interaction and dipole self-energy terms, without introducing additional photonic degrees of freedom. A time-dependent unitary transformation yields a real-valued Hermitian Hamiltonian that can be incorporated into existing ab-initio QED methods without additional computational cost or changes in scaling. We combined the approach to the QED-CCSD method and investigated the effects of cavity dissipation on the optical spectrum of a p-nitroaniline molecule under strong light-matter coupling. We found that, for realistic quality factors, cavity dissipation can reduce the Rabi splitting by more than 20% compared to the ideal-cavity limit, even though the system remains in the strong-coupling regime. Convergence towards the ideal-cavity limit then requires substantially higher quality factors than those needed to establish strong coupling. These results demonstrate that cavity dissipation can significantly affect polaritonic energetics and highlight the importance of incorporating experimentally realistic cavity losses into quantitative ab-initio Cavity-QED simulations to accurately guide experimental protocols.

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Giovanna Bruno, Enrico Busani, Lorenzo Gialli, Rosario Roberto Riso, Enrico Ronca. 2026-10-03. Beyond ideal cavities: quantifying the impact of cavity dissipation on light-matter strong coupling. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04534

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