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   * Polaritonic Chemistry
+    -  Pioneers of the field, good review (from experimentalis perspective):\\ Ebbesen, T. W. Hybrid light–matter states in a molecular and material science perspective. Acc. Chem. Res. 49, 2403–2412 (2016)
     - Theoretical Minimal model for polaritonic chemistry: \\ Galego, J., Garcia-Vidal, F. J. & Feist, J. Cavity-induced modifications of molecular structure in the strong-coupling regime. Phys. Rev. X 5, 041022 (2015)
-    - Pioneers of the field, good review (from experimentalis perspective):\\ Ebbesen, T. W. Hybrid light–matter states in a molecular and material science perspective. Acc. Chem. Res. 49, 2403–2412 (2016)
 ===== General Properties =====
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       * k=0 (normal incidence): matter and light contribute equally
       * large k: P+ more photonic, while P- more matter-like
-    * Life times: can vary a lot, especially there are a lot of cases, where the lifetime of the Polariton is much longer than the lifetimes of the constituents (matter, photon)! (some sources can be found in [2])
+    * Life times: can vary a lot, especially there are a lot of cases, where the lifetime of the Polariton is much longer than the lifetimes of the constituents (matter, photon)! (some sources can be found in [1])
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     * First experiment with such organic semiconductors: \\ D. G. Lidzey, D. D. C. Bradley, M. S. Skolnick, T. Virgili, S. Walker, and D. M. Whittaker, Strong Exciton-Photon Coupling in an Organic Semiconductor Microcavity, Nature (London) 395, 53 \\ use tetra-(2,6-t-butyl)phenol-porphyrin zinc (4TBPPZn) as the organic semiconductor, which has high oscillator strength and sufficiently small linewidth
     * organic materials have much more complicated electronic structure than conventional non-organic semiconductors (few level approximations are bad!)
-  * investigating polaritons from complex electronic systems and even taking chemical reactions into account
+  * investigating polaritons in complex electronic systems (and even taking chemical reactions into account)
     * BOA can break down because polariton introduces intermediate energy level in the large gap between electron and nucleus energies
-    * strong coupling due to collective coupling of many molecules to one mode (w_Rabi enhanced by sqrt(N)): only small fraction of the modes are coupled, rest is "dark", but still affected by the strong coupling [1]
+    * strong coupling due to collective coupling of many molecules to one mode ($w_{Rabi}$ enhanced by $\sqrt(N)$): only small fraction of the modes are coupled, rest is "dark", but still affected by the strong coupling [1]
     * Ultra strong coupling (USC): also ground state acquires photonic contribution:
       * (like super fluid to mott state?): I. Carusotto and C. Ciuti, Quantum Fluids of Light, RevModPhys 85, 299 (2013)
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     * Theory (not read yet):\\ Y. Todorov and C. Sirtori, Intersubband polaritons in the electrical dipole gauge, Phys.Rev.B 85, 045304 (2012)
     * Another USC situation: 2d QW of electrons (2 bands) coupled to a 0d-mode (plasmon polaritons)\\ Y. Todorov, A. M. Andrews, R. Colombelli, S. De Liberato,C. Ciuti, P. Klang, G. Strasser, and C. Sirtori, Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling Regime with Polariton Dots Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 196402 (2010)
+  * Application to light-harvesting complexes:\\ Coles, D. M. et al. Strong coupling between chlorosomes of photosynthetic bacteria and a confined optical cavity mode. Nat. Commun. 5, 5561 (2014)
+    * proof strong coupling between a "large biological system" (conglomerate of photoactive molecule BChl c that form a chlorosome in a very complicated way) to a cavity: despite a large scattering, polaritons form
+    * could be used to make photosynthetic process more efficient
+    * They imagine: "since the density of chlorosomes within the green sulfur bacteria is high, it may be possible to strongly couple a living bacteria to a cavity mode resulting in a ‘living polariton’"