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Plasmons are likely to play an important role in integrated photonic ciruits, because they strongly interact with light and can be confined to subwavelength scales. These plasmons can be guided and controlled by plasmonic waveguides, which…

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Metamaterials have recently established a new paradigm for enhanced light absorption in state-of-the-art photodetectors. Here, we demonstrate broadband, highly efficient, polarization-insensitive, and gate-tunable photodetection at room…

Among their amazing properties, graphene and related low-dimensional materials show quantized charge-density fluctuations--known as plasmons--when exposed to photons or electrons of suitable energies. Graphene nanoribbons offer an enhanced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-14 Cristian Vacacela Gomes , Michele Pisarra , Mario Gravina , Jose M. Pitarke , Antonello Sindona

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the spectrum of graphene plasmons which arise when a pair of sheets are confined between conducting materials. The associated enhanced local fields may be employed in the manipulation of light on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Godfrey Gumbs , Dipendra Dahal , Antonios Balassis

On the unit interval (I), and the Sierpinski Gasket ($\mathcal{SG}$), the spectral decimation function of the Laplacian has similar properties that result in positive minimum spacing of eigenvalues. Other fractals, for example the level-3…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Bernard Akwei

The collective response of closely spaced metal particles in non-periodic arrangements has the potential to provide a beneficial angular and frequency dependence in sensing applications. In this paper, we investigate the optical response of…

We theoretically investigate dispersion of plasma waves propagating in a lateral plasmonic crystal based on a two-dimensional electron system with grating gates. Two specific configurations are analyzed: a system with single grating gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 I. V. Gorbenko , P. A. Gusikhin , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , V. M. Muravev

Orbital magnetization (OM) in Sierpinski carpet (SC) and triangle (ST) fractal is theoretically investigated by using Haldane model as a prototypical example. The OM calculation is performed following two distinct approaches; employing the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-30 L. L. Lage , Tarik. P. Cysne , A. Latgé

Plasmons are usually described in terms of macroscopic quantities such as electric fields and currents. However as fundamental excitations of metals they are also quantum objects with internal structure. We demonstrate that this can induce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Jinlyu Cao , H. A. Fertig , Luis Brey

In this paper, we explore some significant properties associated with a fractal operator on the space of all continuous functions defined on the Sierpi\'nski Gasket (SG). We also provide some results related to constrained approximation…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-30 V. Agrawal , S. Verma , T. Som

Topological photonic crystals, which offer topologically protected and back-scattering-immune transport channels, have recently gained significant attention for both scientific and practical reasons. Although most current studies focus on…

Plasmons --the collective oscillations of electrons in conducting materials-- play a pivotal role in nanophotonics because of their ability to couple electronic and photonic degrees of freedom. In particular, plasmons in graphene --the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-08 Renwen Yu , F. Javier García de Abajo

We investigated the dimensionality transition behavior of graphene localized plasmon resonances in confinement-controlled graphene devices. We first demonstrated a possibility of dimensionality transition, based on the devices…

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We theoretically investigate equal-mass spin-balanced two-component Fermi gases in which pairs of atoms with opposite spins interact via a short-range isotropic model potential. We probe the distinction between two-dimensional and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-27 Emma K. Laird , Brendan C. Mulkerin , Jia Wang , Matthew J. Davis

In this article, we analyze the quantum and topological properties of graphene-based plasmonic systems. We consider the following plasmonic materials: single-layer graphene, twisted bilayer graphene, and other graphene stackings, as well as…

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The ability to tailor the energy distribution of plasmons at the nanoscale has many applications in nanophotonics, such as designing plasmon lasers, spasers, and quantum emitters. To this end, we analytically study the energy distribution…

Plasmon in graphene possesses many unique properties. It originates from the collective motion of massless Dirac fermions and the carrier density dependence is distinctively different from conventional plasmons. In addition, graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Shenyang Huang , Chaoyu Song , Guowei Zhang , Hugen Yan

The suite of highly confined polaritons supported by two-dimensional (2D) materials constitutes a versatile platform for nano-optics, offering the means to channel light on deep-subwavelength scales. Graphene, in particular, has attracted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 T. P. Rasmussen , P. A. D. Gonçalves , Sanshui Xiao , Sebastian Hofferberth , N. Asger Mortensen , Joel D. Cox

We study atom-photon bound states seeded by two-level emitters coupled to self-similar photonic lattices. By expressing the photonic Green's function through the heat kernel, we show that the far-field localization length obeys $\xi \sim…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Florian Bönsel , Flore K. Kunst , Federico Roccati

Surface plasmon polaritons are electromagnetic waves propagating on the surface of a metal. Thanks to subwavelength confinement to the surface, they can concentrate optical energy on the micrometer or even nanometer scale, enabling new…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-27 B. Dastmalci , P. Tassin , Th. Koschny , C. M. Soukoulis