Picocavity-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of physisorbed H2 and D2 molecules

Shiotari, A.; Liu, S.; Trenins, G.; Sugimoto, T.; Wolf, M.; Rossi, M.; Kumagai, T.

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Picocavity-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of physisorbed H2 and D2 molecules

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Trenins, G.
Simulations from Ab Initio Approaches, Theory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society;

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Rossi, M.
Simulations from Ab Initio Approaches, Theory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society;

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Shiotari, A., Liu, S., Trenins, G., Sugimoto, T., Wolf, M., Rossi, M., et al. (2024). Picocavity-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of physisorbed H2 and D2 molecules.

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Abstract

We report on tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS) of H2 and D2 molecules physisorbed within a plasmonic picocavity at a cryogenic temperature (10 K). The intense Raman peaks resulting from the rotational and vibrational transitions are observed at sub-nanometer gap distances of the junction formed by a Ag tip and Ag(111) surface. We clarify that the predominant contribution of the electromagnetic field enhancement of the picocavity to the detection of a single hydrogen molecule. The gap-distance dependent TERS reveals not only the evolution of the picocavity field, but also the interaction between the molecule and tip/surface, which exhibit nontrivial isotope effects. A significant red-shift and peak broadening of the H-H stretching as the gap distance decreases, while the D-D stretching mode is unaffected. A combination of density functional theory and reduced-dimension models reveals that a distinct anharmonicity in the mode potential of H2 is one cause of the anomalous red-shift, whereas D2 has less anharmonicity due to the geometric isotope effect.