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We present a magnetically biased graphene-ferrite structure discriminating the TE and TM plasmonic modes of graphene. In this structure, the graphene TM plasmons interact reciprocally with the structure. In contrast, the graphene TE…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Nima Chamanara , Christophe Caloz

With the unique possibilities for controlling light in nanoscale devices, graphene plasmonics has opened new perspectives to the nanophotonics community with potential applications in metamaterials, modulators, photodetectors, and sensors.…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-07 Sanshui Xiao , Xiaolong Zhu , Bo-Hong Li , N. Asger Mortensen

We develop a microscopic large-$N$ theory of electron-electron interaction corrections to multi-legged Feynman diagrams describing second- and third-order nonlinear response functions. Our theory, which reduces to the well-known random…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-25 Habib Rostami , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Marco Polini

We propose a 2D graphene structure containing atomic ensemble as a platform for implementing nanoscale enhanced coherent interactions of plasmonic fields with resonant atomic systems. We determine the graphene surface plasmon modes, and the…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-17 Ali A. Kamli , Sergey A. Moiseev

Sub-wavelength graphene structures support localized plasmonic resonances in the terahertz and mid-infrared spectral regimes. The strong field confinement at the resonant frequency is predicted to significantly enhance the light-graphene…

Graphene plasmons are rapidly emerging as a viable tool for fast electrical manipulation of light. The prospects for applications to electro-optical modulation, optical sensing, quantum plasmonics, light harvesting, spectral photometry, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-20 F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

The observation and electrical manipulation of infrared surface plasmons in graphene have triggered a search for similar photonic capabilities in other atomically thin materials that enable electrical modulation of light at visible and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 F. Javier Garcia de Abajo , Alejandro Manjavacas

We analyze nonlinear optics schemes for generating pairs of quantum entangled plasmons in the terahertz-infrared range in graphene. We predict that high plasmonic field concentration and strong optical nonlinearity of monolayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Zhiyuan Sun , D. N. Basov , M. M. Fogler

The interaction between doped graphene nanoislands connected by narrow junctions constitutes an ideal testbed to probe quantum effects in plasmonic systems. Here, the interaction between graphene plasmons in neighboring nanoislands is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-11 Sukosin Thongrattanasiri , Alejandro Manjavacas , Peter Nordlander , F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

A distant-neighbor quantum-mechanical method is used to study the nonlinear optical wave mixing in graphene nanoflakes (GNFs), including sum- and difference-frequency generation, as well as four-wave mixing. Our analysis shows that…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-11 Hanying Deng , Changming Huang , Yingji He , Fangwei Ye

Although electrons and photons are intrinsically different, importing useful concepts in optics to electronics performing similar functions has been actively pursued over the last two decades. In particular, collimation of an electron beam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-11 Cheol-Hwan Park , Young-Woo Son , Li Yang , Marvin L. Cohen , Steven G. Louie

Engineering strong interactions between optical photons is a great challenge for quantum science. Envisioned applications range from the realization of photonic gates for quantum information processing to synthesis of photonic quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Patrick Knüppel , Sylvain Ravets , Martin Kroner , Stefan Fält , Werner Wegscheider , Atac Imamoglu

Collective plasmon modes, riding on top of drifting electrons, acquire a fascinating nonreciprocal dispersion characterized by $\omega_p(\bm{q}) \neq \omega_p(-\bm{q})$. The {\it classical} plasmonic Doppler shift arises from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Debasis Dutta , Amit Agarwal

Interactions between localized plasmons in proximal nanostructures is a well-studied phenomenon. Here we explore plasmon plasmon interactions in connected extended systems. Such systems can now be easily produced using graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Daniel Rodrigo , Tony Low , Damon B. Farmer , Hatice Altug , Phaedon Avouris

Realizing strong nonlinear optical responses is a long-standing goal of both fundamental and technological importance. Recently significant efforts have focused on exploring excitons in solids as a pathway to achieving nonlinearities even…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Liuxin Gu , Lifu Zhang , Ruihao Ni , Ming Xie , Dominik S. Wild , Suji Park , Houk Jang , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Mohammad Hafezi , You Zhou

Surface plasmon polaritons (plasmons) are a combination of light and a collective oscillation of the free electron plasma at metal-dielectric interfaces. This interaction allows sub-wavelength confinement of light, beyond the diffraction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 Reinier W. Heeres , Leo P. Kouwenhoven , Valery Zwiller

Here we study subwavelength gratings for coupling into graphene plasmons by means of an an- alytical model based on transformation optics that is not limited to very shallow gratings. We consider gratings that consist of a periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Paloma A. Huidobro , Matthias Kraft , Ren Kun , Stefan A. Maier , John B. Pendry

Graphene revealed a number of unique properties beneficial for electronics. However, graphene does not have an energy band-gap, which presents a serious hurdle for its applications in digital logic gates. The efforts to induce a band-gap in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Guanxiong Liu , Sonia Ahsan , Alexander G. Khitun , Roger K. Lake , Alexander A. Balandin

The unusual electronic properties of single-layer graphene make it a promising material system for fundamental advances in physics, and an attractive platform for new device technologies. Graphene's spin transport properties are expected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-23 Mark B. Lundeberg , Joshua A. Folk

The versatile control of graphene's plasmonic modes via an external gate-voltage inspires us to design efficient electro-optical graphene plasmonic logic gates at the midinfrared wavelengths. We show that these devices are superior to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-08 Kelvin J. A. Ooi , Hong Son Chu , Ping Bai , Lay Kee Ang