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The optomechanical character of molecules was discovered by Raman about onecentury ago. Today, molecules are promising contenders for high-performancequantum optomechanical platforms because their small size and largeenergy-level separations make them intrinsically robust against thermalagitations. Moreover, the precision and throughput of chemical synthesis canensure a viable route to quantum technological applications. The challenge,however, is that the coupling of molecular vibrations to environmental phononslimits their coherence to picosecond time scales. Here, we improve theoptomechanical quality of a molecule by several orders of magnitude throughphononic engineering of its surrounding. By dressing a molecule with long-livedhigh-frequency phonon modes of its nanoscopic environment, we achieve storageand retrieval of photons at millisecond time scales and allow for the emergenceof single-photon strong coupling in optomechanics. Our strategy can be extendedto the realization of molecular optomechanical networks.

Engineering long-lived vibrational states for an organic molecule