{"id":219736,"date":"2025-08-09T05:30:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/new-theory-may-solve-quantum-jigsaw-puzzle-for-controlling-chemical-reactions"},"modified":"2025-08-09T05:30:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:30:46","slug":"new-theory-may-solve-quantum-jigsaw-puzzle-for-controlling-chemical-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/new-theory-may-solve-quantum-jigsaw-puzzle-for-controlling-chemical-reactions","title":{"rendered":"New theory may solve quantum \u2018jigsaw puzzle\u2019 for controlling chemical reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-theory-may-solve-quantum-jigsaw-puzzle-for-controlling-chemical-reactions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the past, chemists have used temperature, pressure, light, and other chemical ways to speed up or slow down chemical reactions. Now, researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a theory that explains a different way to control chemical reactions\u2014one that doesn\u2019t rely on heat or light but instead on the quantum environment surrounding the molecules.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/jacs.5c03182\" target=\"_blank\">a paper<\/a> published in the <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society<\/i>, the researchers\u2014including Frank Huo, the Dean and Laura Marvin Endowed Professor in Physical Chemistry in Rochester\u2019s Department of Chemistry and graduate students Sebastian Montillo and Wenxiang Ying\u2014argue that traditional theories used to predict how fast <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical reactions<\/a> occur may not fully capture what happens under certain quantum light-matter interaction conditions.<\/p>\n<p>To address this, they developed a new theory showing how <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+effects\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum effects <\/a>\u2014specifically, an effect called vibrational strong coupling (VSC)\u2014can influence chemical reactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, chemists have used temperature, pressure, light, and other chemical ways to speed up or slow down chemical reactions. Now, researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a theory that explains a different way to control chemical reactions\u2014one that doesn\u2019t rely on heat or light but instead on the quantum environment surrounding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}