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  "abstract": "Excited organic dyes chemically bound to an icosahedral virus shell can spontaneously synchronize and emit a superradiant burst of light. The mechanism that allows it to occur at room temperature, despite collisional dephasing and inhomogeneous broadening, is not understood. Few other known low-dimensional condensed matter systems exhibit room-temperature superradiance (SR). In the fluctuation-prone environment of molecular-based systems, electron--vibrational coupling has been proposed to play a central role. Here, we addressed experimentally the existence of underdamped virus capsid phonon-like modes and theoretically their involvement in the transition from uncorrelated to cooperative emission. We find that SR-active dye-labeled capsids exhibit underdamped low-frequency oscillations that modulate the dye excited-state response, and modeling shows how such capsid motion can promote the collective polarization required for superradiant emission.",
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      "name": "Tianran Li"
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    {
      "name": "Irina Tsvetkova"
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    {
      "name": "Matthew Brauser"
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    {
      "name": "Amala Raj"
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    {
      "name": "Philip Shushkov"
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    {
      "name": "Bogdan Dragnea"
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.00739",
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  "published": "2026-10-01",
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  "title": "How Superradiance Survives Molecular Noise inside Virus Capsids",
  "title_text": "How Superradiance Survives Molecular Noise inside Virus Capsids",
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  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/85dk1drvbepqt",
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