Abstract

Plasmonic cavities are suitable platforms for studying the interaction of light and matter at the nanoscale. It has been demonstrated that plasmonic cavities are able to squeeze light into nanometer-sized volumes and thus open novel possibilities for studying the interaction of single molecules with light. For example, it has been recently shown that off-resonance Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) can be described in the framework of cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) and that molecular vibrations interacting with a plasmonic cavity mode represent a molecular optomechanical system [1-3].

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