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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 46: Nano-Optics I
Q 46.7: Talk
Thursday, March 17, 2022, 12:15–12:30, Q-H11
Coherent splitting of a vibronic line in a single molecule — Johannes Zirkelbach1,2, •Masoud Mirzaei1,2, Burak Gurlek1,2, Alexey Shkarin1,2, Tobias Utikal1,2, Stephan Götzinger1,2,3, and Vahid Sandoghdar1,2 — 1Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, 91058 Erlangen, Germany — 2Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany — 3Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen Nürnberg, 91052 Erlangen, Germany
Single organic dye molecules in the solid state offer a promising platform for quantum technology because of their strong zero-phonon transitions. Coherent access to vibronic states of these molecules has so far not been considered in this context due to their fast relaxation rates. We now report on experimentally observed coherent splitting of a vibronic level obtained by tuning a strong laser beam to the transition between two vibronic states. The experiments were performed with a single dibenzoterrylene molecule in a para-dichlorobenzene crystals at * < 100 mK. In this scheme, the resulting non-Lorentzian resonance profiles can be described only by accounting for the coherent evolution of the density matrix elements.