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Theory for Entangled-Photons Stimulated Raman Scattering versus Nonlinear Absorption for Polyatomic Molecules
Mingran Zhang1, Jiahao Joel Fan1, Frank Schlawin2,3
1Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, 999077, Hong Kong SAR, China.
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Quantum entanglement offers an incredible resource for quantum-enhanced sensing, imaging, and spectroscopy. Here we evaluate the enhancement of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) signal by entangled photons. We demonstrate that the time-energy correlation of the photon pairs can optimize the signal for polyatomic molecules. Our results show that the spectral-line intensity of the entangled-photon SRS (ESRS) is of the same order of magnitude as the one for the entangled two-photon absorption (ETPA); the parameter window is thus identified to do so. Moreover, the vibrational coherence is found to play an important role for enhancing the ESRS against the ETPA intensity. Our work paves a firm road for extending the schemes of molecular spectroscopy with quantum light, based on the observation of the ETPA in experiments.
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