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With the development of condensed-matter physics and nanotechnology, attention has turned to the fields near and on surfaces that result from interactions between electric dipole radiation and mesoscale structures. It is hoped that studying…
We propose a theoretical study on the electromagnetic forces resulting from the superposition of a TE and TM plane waves interacting with a sphere. Specifically, we first show that, under such an illumination condition, the sphere is…
The microscopic conditions for the emergence of nonreciprocal magnon excitations in noncentrosymmetric magnets are theoretically investigated. We show that asymmetric magnon excitations appear when a bond magnetic toroidal dipole becomes…
We demonstrate on-chip generation of indistinguishable photons based on a nanowire quantum dot. From a growth substrate containing arrays of positioned-controlled single dot nanowires, we select a single nanowire which is placed on a SiN…
Light-matter interactions are often considered governed by the electric optical field only, leaving aside the magnetic component of light. However, the magnetic part plays a determining role in many optical processes from light and…
Surface electromagnetic waves are the main carriers of the highly localized in-plane signal in planar antennas and photonic devices. However, the polarization degree of freedom is generally absent for surface waves as far as it is still a…
Using simple classical treatment it is shown that the power emitted by the electric and toroidal dipoles scales differently with the refractive index of the surrounding environment.
The spin orbit interactions (SOI) of light mediated by single scattering from plasmon resonant metal nanoparticles (nanorods and nanospheres) are investigated using explicit theory based on Jones and Stokes-Mueller polarimetry formalism.…
Spin-orbit interactions of light are ubiquitous in multiple branches of nanophotonics, including optical wave localization. In that framework, it is widely accepted that circularly polarized beams lead to spin-dependent apparent shifts of…
Hyperbolic materials offer a much wider freedom in designing optical properties of nanostructures than ones with isotropic and elliptical dispersion, both metallic or dielectric. Here, we present a detailed theoretical and numerical study…
The interaction of a molecule with the quantized electromagnetic field of a nano-cavity gives rise to light-induced conical intersections between polaritonic potential energy surfaces. We demonstrate for a realistic model of a polyatomic…
Interference is the cornerstone of Huygens source design for reshaping and controlling scattering patterns. The conventional underpinning principle, such as for the Kerker effect, is the interference of electric and magnetic dipole and…
Pair soliton interactions play a significant role in the dynamics of soliton turbulence. The interaction of solitons with different polarities is particularly crucial in the context of abnormally large wave formation, often referred to as…
We demonstrate microwave dressing on ultracold, fermionic ${}^{23}$Na${}^{40}$K ground-state molecules and observe resonant dipolar collisions with cross sections exceeding three times the $s$-wave unitarity limit. The origin of these…
We combine ab-initio calculations based on many-body perturbation theory and the cumulant expansion with angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) to quantify the electron-plasmon interaction in the highly-doped semiconducting…
A plasmonic nanoantenna probed by a plane-polarized optical field in a medium with no gain materials can show zero absorption or even amplification, while exhibiting maximal polarizability. This occurs through coupling to an adjacent…
The electromagnetic field scattered by nano-objects contains a broad range of wave vectors and can be efficiently coupled to waveguided modes. The dominant contribution to scattering from subwavelength dielectric and plasmonic nanoparticles…
A star crossing the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole will be spectacularly ripped apart with an accompanying burst of radiation. A few tens of such tidal disruption events (TDEs) have now been identified in the optical wavelengths,…
A detailed theory describing linear optics of vapors comprised of interacting multi-level quantum emitters is proposed. It is shown both by direct integration of Maxwell-Bloch equations and using a simple analytical model that at large…
We theoretically investigate plasmon polaritons in cubic lattices of spherical metallic nanoparticles. The nanoparticles, each supporting triply-degenerate localized surface plasmons, couple through the Coulomb dipole-dipole interaction,…