Abstract

Manipulation of atoms, ions and molecules has attracted much attention for more than a decade. One of the remaining experimental challenges is, however, the control and knowledge of the position of a particle while studying its interaction with that of a single mode of the electromagnetic field in the optical domain. To this end, recently some elegant experiments have been performed using free atoms in a high-finesse cavity [1], while a single trapped ion coupled to a resonator has also been considered as a potential candidate [2]. Here we report on our first results from experiments which aim at performing similar studies using single molecules in a solid matrix.

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