Quantum plasmonics

MS Tame, KR McEnery, ŞK Özdemir, J Lee, SA Maier… - Nature Physics, 2013 - nature.com
Quantum plasmonics is a rapidly growing field of research that involves the study of the
quantum properties of light and its interaction with matter at the nanoscale. Here, surface …

Materials perspective on Casimir and van der Waals interactions

LM Woods, DAR Dalvit, A Tkatchenko… - Reviews of Modern …, 2016 - APS
Interactions induced by electromagnetic fluctuations, such as van der Waals and Casimir
forces, are of universal nature present at any length scale between any types of systems …

Coupling of molecular emitters and plasmonic cavities beyond the point-dipole approximation

T Neuman, R Esteban, D Casanova, FJ García-Vidal… - Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
As the size of a molecular emitter becomes comparable to the dimensions of a nearby
optical resonator, the standard approach that considers the emitter to be a point-like dipole …

All-optical nonlinear activation function for photonic neural networks

M Miscuglio, A Mehrabian, Z Hu, SI Azzam… - Optical Materials …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
With the recent successes of neural networks (NN) to perform machine-learning tasks,
photonic-based NN designs may enable high throughput and low power neuromorphic …

Azimuthal dependence of electromagnetically induced grating in a double V-type atomic system near a plasmonic nanostructure

SH Asadpour, T Kirova, HR Hamedi… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
We conduct theoretical and numerical studies of the performance of a 2D
electromagnetically induced grating in a 4-level quantum system, which is situated near a …

Metasurface-enabled remote quantum interference

PK Jha, X Ni, C Wu, Y Wang, X Zhang - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
An anisotropic quantum vacuum (AQV) opens novel pathways for controlling light-matter
interaction in quantum optics, condensed matter physics, etc. Here, we theoretically …

Light-induced enhanced torque on double-V-type quantum emitters via quantum interference in spontaneous emission

HR Hamedi, J Ruseckas, V Yannopapas… - Optics & Laser …, 2023 - Elsevier
We consider interaction of a pair of counterpropagating spatially inhomogeneous weak
vortex beams with a quantum emitter that has a double-V level scheme and closely situated …

Enhancement of the second-harmonic generation in a quantum dot–metallic nanoparticle hybrid system

MR Singh - Nanotechnology, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We have investigated the second-harmonic generation (SHG) and dipole–dipole interaction
in a quantum dot and metallic nanoparticle hybrid system. A strong probe field is applied to …

Dynamical polarizability of graphene with spatial dispersion

T Zhu, M Antezza, JS Wang - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We perform a detailed analysis of electronic polarizability of graphene with different
theoretical approaches. From Kubo's linear response formalism, we give a general …

Plasmonic metal nanostructures with extremely small features: new effects, fabrication and applications

H Shi, X Zhu, S Zhang, G Wen, M Zheng… - Nanoscale …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface plasmons in metals promise many fascinating properties and applications in optics,
sensing, photonics and nonlinear fields. Plasmonic nanostructures with extremely small …