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Abstract

A central goal of the emerging field of materials QED is to harness subwavelength electromagnetic confinement in engineered cavities to tailor light-matter interactions. Here, we demonstrate that van der Waals multilayer cavities composed of stacked graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) provide unprecedented control over hybridization between their electromagnetic resonances. By magnetically tuning graphene inter-Landau-level transitions (ILTs) into resonance with hBN phonons, we witness broadband, mode-selective strong coupling in the mid-infrared. Our quantum-material QED framework shows that cavity geometry and layer placement jointly control both coupling strength and modal selectivity. For experimentally realistic cavity parameters, the predicted mode splitting exceeds the width of the hBN Reststrahlen band, providing a direct route to the ultrastrong coupling regime. Together, these results establish van der Waals multilayer cavities as a scalable platform for tunable multimode QED and broaden the design space for reconfigurable quantum materials.

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