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Photoluminescence from a gold nanotip in an accelerated reference frame

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2008-11-11 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

Photoluminescence from a gold nanotip, which is induced by surface plasmons propagating over a curved tapered nanotip surface is considered in a co-moving accelerated reference frame. Similar to the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) effect, nonlinear optical mixing of the surface plasmons with the Unruh quanta is supposed to be enhanced by many orders of magnitude.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0510743,
  title  = {Photoluminescence from a gold nanotip in an accelerated reference frame},
  author = {Igor I. Smolyaninov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0510743},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Accepted for publication in Phys. Letters A 4 pages, 3 figures