Dynamical Casimir effect for surface plasmon polaritons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2014-10-17 v1 Materials Science
Optics
Abstract
Emission of photon pairs by an interface of asymmetric dielectric and thin metal film excited by a normally falling plane wave is considered. The excitation causes oscillations in time of the phase velocity of surface plasmon polaritons in the interface. This leads to the dynamical Casimir effect - the generation of pairs of surface plasmon polariton quanta, which transfer to photons outside the interface. In case of a properly chosen interface, the yield of two-photon emission may exceed that of usual spontaneous parametric down conversion.
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@article{arxiv.1410.4413,
title = {Dynamical Casimir effect for surface plasmon polaritons},
author = {V. Hizhnyakov and A. Loot and S. Ch. Azizabadi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.4413},
year = {2014}
}