Photons don't interact well with each other, which is a real headache for researchers developing all-optical transistors for computing applications. But a single molecule can mediate photon–photon affairs.
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Orrit, M. Photons pushed together. Nature 460, 42–44 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/460042a
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