Strong Molecule-Light Entanglement with Molecular Cavity Optomechanics
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 013602 – Published 6 January, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/4z8v-f6s5
Abstract
We propose a molecular optomechanical platform to generate robust entanglement among bosonic modes—photons, phonons, and plasmons—under ambient conditions. The system integrates a high-Q whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) optical resonator with a plasmonic nanocavity formed by a metallic nanoparticle and a single molecule. This hybrid architecture offers two critical advantages over stand-alone plasmonic systems: (i) efficient redirection of Stokes photons from the lossy plasmonic mode into the long-lived WGM resonator and (ii) suppression of molecular absorption and sustaining vibrational ground states via plasmon-WGM interactions. These features enable entanglement to redistribute from the fragile plasmon-phonon bipartition to a robust photon-phonon bipartition in the blue-detuned regime, yielding robust stationary entanglement resilient to environmental noise. Remarkably, the achieved entanglement surpasses the theoretical bound for conventional two-mode squeezing in certain parameter regimes. Our scheme establishes a universal approach to safeguard entanglement in open quantum systems and opens avenues for noise-resilient quantum information technologies.
