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Understanding light-matter interactions using localized surface plasmons (LSPs) is of fundamental interest in classical and quantum plasmonics and has a wide range of applications. In order to understand the spatial properties of LSPs,…

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Exploiting non-Hermitian wave-matter interactions in time-modulated media to enable the dynamic control of electromagnetic waves requires advanced theoretical tools. In this article we bridge concepts from photonic quasinormal modes (QNMs)…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-04 Benjamin Vial , Richard V. Craster

Modal analysis based on the quasi-normal modes (QNM), also called resonant states, has emerged as a promising way for modeling the resonant interaction of light with open optical cavities. However, the fields associated with QNM in open…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-21 Rémi Colom , Ross McPhedran , Brian Stout , Nicolas Bonod

The review presents an analysis and generalization of classical and most modern approaches to the description and development of operation of open optical nanoresonators, that is, resonators all sizes of which are smaller than the resonant…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-17 Vasily V. Klimov

The scattering of electromagnetic waves by resonant systems is determined by the excitation of quasinormal modes (QNMs), i.e., the eigenmodes of the system. This Review addresses three fundamental concepts in relation with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 C. Sauvan , T. Wu , R. Zarouf , E. A. Muljarov , P. Lalanne

We give insight into the critical problem of an open resonator that is subject to a perturbation outside of its cavity region. We utilize the framework of quasinormal modes (QNMs), which are the natural mode solutions to the open boundary…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-12 Sebastian Franke , Juanjuan Ren , Stephen Hughes

We first present a quasinormal mode (QNM) theory for coupled loss-gain resonators working near an exceptional point. Assuming linear media, which can be fully quantified using the complex pole properties of the QNMs, we show how the QNMs…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-04 Juanjuan Ren , Sebastian Franke , Stephen Hughes

The unprecedented pace of evolution in nanoscale architectures for cavity quantum electrodynamics (cQED) has posed crucial challenges for theory, where the quantum dynamics arising from the non-perturbative dressing of matter by cavity…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-22 Lars Meschede , Daniel D. A. Clarke , Ortwin Hess

The rapid progress of nanophotonics demands theoretical frameworks capable of predicting the resonant behavior of complex systems comprising constituents of varying nature, operating beyond the weak-coupling, high-Q regime where classical…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-22 Tong Wu , Philippe Lalanne

Fano profiles are observed across various fields of wave physics. They emerge from interference phenomena and are quantified by the asymmetry parameter q. In optics, q is usually considered as a phenomenological coefficient obtained by…

The specificity of modal-expansion formalisms is their capabilities to model the physical properties in the natural resonance-state basis of the system in question, leading to a transparent interpretation of the numerical results. In…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-06 Wei Yan , Rémi Faggiani , Philippe Lalanne

Resonance expansions are an intuitive approach to capture the interaction of an optical resonator with light. Here, we present a quasinormal mode expansion approach for quadratic observables exploiting the rigorous Riesz projection method.…

Superresolution, extraordinary transmission, total absorption, and localization of electromagnetic waves are currently attracting growing attention. These phenomena are related to different physical objects and are usually studied within…

Plasmonic gap structures are among the few configurations capable of generating extreme light confinement, finding applications in surface-enhanced spectroscopy, ultrasensitive detection, photocatalysis and more. Their plasmonic response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Pu Zhang , Christos Tserkezis , N. Asger Mortensen

We develop a quasi-normal mode theory (QNMT) to calculate a system's scattering $S$ matrix, simultaneously satisfying both energy conservation and reciprocity even for a small truncated set of resonances. It is a practical reduced-order…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Mohammed Benzaouia , John D. Joannopoulos , Steven G. Johnson , Aristeidis Karalis

In this work, we investigate the gravitational quasinormal modes (QNMs) and the gravitational resonances of a thick brane model. We use the asymptotic iteration and shooting methods to obtain the quasinormal frequencies (QNFs) of the brane.…

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The electromagnetic scattering resonances of a non-magnetic object much smaller than the incident wavelength in vacuum can be either described by the electroquasistatic approximation of the Maxwell's equations if its permittivity is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Carlo Forestiere , Giovanni Miano , Guglielmo Rubinacci

We study the quantum dynamics of two quantum dots (QDs) or artificial atoms coupled through the fundamental localized plasmon of a gold nanorod resonator. We derive an intuitive and efficient time-local master equation, in which the effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 Rong-Chun Ge , Stephen Hughes

We present a microscopic quantum theory of light-matter interaction in pristine sheets of two-dimensional semiconductors coupled to localized electromagnetic resonators such as optical nanocavities or plasmonic particles. The light-matter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 E. V. Denning , M. Wubs , N. Stenger , J. Mork , P. T. Kristensen

Nonlocal effects have been shown to be responsible for a variety of non-trivial optical effects in small-size plasmonic nanoparticles, beyond classical electrodynamics. However, it is not clear whether optical mode descriptions can be…