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Organic molecules pumped to resonance

Interacting emitters are the fundamental building blocks of quantum optics and quantum information devices. Pairs of organic molecules embedded in a crystal can become permanently strongly interacting when they are pumped with intense laser light.

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Fig. 1: Interacting and non-interacting molecules.

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