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Probing intensity-field correlations of single-molecule surface-enhanced Raman-scattered light

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In the context of the quantum-mechanical description of single-molecule surface-enhanced Raman scattering, intensity-field correlation measurements of photons emitted from a plasmonic cavity are explored, theoretically, using the technique of conditional homodyne detection. The inelastic interplay between plasmons and vibrations of a diatomic molecule placed inside the cavity can be manifested in phase-dependent third-order fluctuations of the light recorded by the aforesaid technique, allowing us to reveal signatures of non-classicality (indicatives of squeezing) of the outgoing Raman photons.

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Acknowledgements

I want to thank Prof. H. M. Castro-Beltrán for helpful suggestions. Thanks also to I. Ramos-Prieto for introducing me to the use of QuTip library in Python and for his help with Figs. 1 and 3, and Prof. J. Récamier for his kind hospitality at ICF.

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de los Santos-Sánchez, O. Probing intensity-field correlations of single-molecule surface-enhanced Raman-scattered light. Front. Phys. 14, 61601 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-019-0914-3

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