Figure 2.
(a) Population of the LP after excitation into the lowest energy dark state (DS0) for N = 16 (black), 32 (red), 64 (green) and 128 (blue) Tc molecules strongly coupled to a single confined light mode. The vacuum field of the cavity is adjusted to achieve a Rabi splitting of 429 meV. (b) Zoom-in on the population during the first femtosecond. Open circles are the data points from the trajectories, continuous lines fits to the Rabi formula (eq 6). (c) Absolute value of the perturbation term |VDS0,LP|, obtained from the fits in panel b, for the various ensemble sizes of strongly coupled molecules. Open circles are data points; the continuous line is a fit to a/√N + b, with a = 0.10 fs–1 and b = 4 × 10–3 fs–1.