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The Coulomb drag is a many-body effect observed in proximized low-dimensional systems. It appears as emergence of voltage in one of them upon passage of bias current in another. The magnitude of drag voltage can be strongly affected by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 Ilya Safonov , Aleksandr S. Petrov , Dmitry Svintsov

Surface plasmons are the collective electron excitations in metallic systems and the associated electromagnetic wave usually has the transverse magnetic (TM) polarization. On the other hand, spin waves are the spin excitations perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 H. Y. Yuan , Yaroslav M. Blanter , H. Q. Lin

Plasmonic phenomena are exhibited in light-matter interaction involving materials whose real parts of permittivity functions attain negative values at operating wavelengths. However, such materials usually suffer from dissipative losses,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-22 Cristian Della Giovampaola , Nader Engheta

The microwave response of a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) covered by a conducting top gate is investigated in the relativistic regime for which the 2D conductivity $\sigma_{2 \rm{D}} > c/2\pi$. Weakly damped plasma waves are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 V. M. Muravev , P. A. Gusikhin , I. V. Andreev , I. V. Kukushkin

Random impedance networks are widely used as a model to describe plasmon resonances in disordered metal-dielectric nanocomposites. In order to study thin films, two-dimensional networks are often used despite the fact that such networks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Nikita Olekhno , Yaroslav Beltukov

We calculate the plasmon dispersion relation for Coulomb coupled metallic armchair graphene nanoribbons and doped monolayer graphene. The crossing of the plasmon curves, which occurs for uncoupled 1D and 2D systems, is split by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 S. M. Badalyan , A. A. Shylau , A. P. Jauho

A new electromagnetic plasma mode has been discovered in the hybrid system formed by a highly conductive gate strip placed in proximity to the two-dimensional electron system. The new plasmon mode propagates along the gate strip with no…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 V. M. Muravev , P. A. Gusikhin , A. M. Zarezin , I. V. Andreev , S. I. Gubarev , I. V. Kukushkin

The article explores the ion flux response of a capacitor configuration to an alternating voltage. The model system comprises a symmetric binary electrolyte confined between plan-parallel capacitor plates. The AC response is investigated…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 Sonja Babel , Michael Eikerling , Hartmut Löwen

The effect of screening of the coulomb interaction between two layers of two-dimensional electrons, such as in graphene, by a highly doped semiconducting substrate is investigated. We employ the random-phase approximation to calculate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang

We study the optical properties of crystals with spatial dispersion and show that the usual Fresnel approach becomes invalid near frequencies where the group velocity of the wave packets inside the crystal vanishes. Near these special…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 Ch. Helm , L. N. Bulaevskii

We provide electrical circuit descriptions for bulk plasmons, single surface plasmons, and parallel-plate plasmons. Simple circuits can reproduce the exactly known frequency versus wave-vector dispersion relations for all these cases, with…

A broadband detection method with coherent laser pulses exciting surface plasmons is investigated. The intensity and phase characteristics of the reflected light in Kretschmann configuration are calculated. It is shown that by mixing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-14 Alexandre Kolomenskii , Elizabeth Surovic , Hans Schuessler

Surface plasmon-polaritons have recently attracted renewed interest in the scientific community for their potential in sub-wavelength optics, light generation and non-destructive sensing. Given that they cannot be directly excited by freely…

The collective electronic excitation in planar sodium clusters is studied by time-dependent density functional theory calculations. The formation and development of the resonances in photoabsorption spectra are investigated in terms of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-17 Bao-Ji Wang , San-Huang Ke

The combination of plasmonic nanoparticles and graphene enhances the responsivity and spectral selectivity of graphene-based photodetectors. However, the small area of the metal-graphene junction, where the induced electron-hole pairs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 T. J. Echtermeyer , S. Milana , U. Sassi , A. Eiden , M. Wu , E. Lidorikis , A. C. Ferrari

We analytically derive a rigorous expression for the relative impedance ratio between two photonic structures based on their electromagnetic interaction. Our approach generalizes the physical meaning of the impedance to a measure for the…

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

Describing the phenomenon of total internal reflection in terms of a reflection coefficient of unit magnitude, we found that, not only can propagating plane waves be total internally reflected at the planar interface of two dissimilar,…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Tom G. Mackay

We demonstrate that the interaction between two emitters can be controlled by means of the efficient excitation of surface plasmon modes in graphene. We consider graphene surface plasmons supported by either two-dimensional graphene sheets…

We have analytically studied plasmons in an electron system comprised of two spatially separated layers -- an infinite two-dimensional electron system (2DES) and a 2D strip. Our analysis reveals the existence of plasmon modes that are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 A. A. Zabolotnykh , V. A. Volkov