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Plasmons are elementary quantum excitations of conducting materials with Fermi surfaces. In two dimensions they may carry a static dipole moment that is transverse to their momentum which is quantum geometric in nature, the quantum…

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Monte Carlo simulation of a 2+1 dimensional model of voltage-biased bilayer graphene, consisting of relativistic fermions with chemical potential mu coupled to charged excitations with opposite sign on each layer, has exposed non-canonical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-30 Wes Armour , Simon Hands , Costas Strouthos

Quantum plasmonics explores how light interacts with collective charge oscillations at metal-dielectric interfaces, enabling strong confinement and enhanced quantum effects at the nanoscale. While traditional quantum optics focuses on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Mingyuan Hong

Surface plasma waves are collective oscillations of electrons that propagate along a metal-dielectric interface. In the last ten years, several groups have reproduced fundamental quantum optics experiments with surface plasmons. Observation…

We study the dynamical polarization function and plasmon modes for spin-orbit coupled noncentrosymmetric metals (NCMs). These systems have different Fermi surface topology for Fermi energies above and below the spin degenerate point which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Sonu Verma , Arijit Kundu , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

Perturbation theory is an indispensable tool in quantum mechanics and electrodynamics that handles weak effects on particle motion or fields. However, its extension to plasmons involving complex motion of {\it both} particles and fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Aleksandr S. Petrov , Dmitry Svintsov

Plasmon and polariton modes are derived for an ideal semi-infinite (half-space) plasma and an ideal plasma slab by using a general, unifying procedure, based on equations of motion, Maxwell's equations and suitable boundary conditions.…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Apostol , G. Vaman

The kinetic energy of bulk relativistic plasma ejected from the central engine of blazars is converted into nonthermal particle energy in the comoving frame through a process of sweeping up material from the surrounding medium. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Charles D. Dermer

In a generic spin-polarized Fermi liquid, the masses of spin-up and spin-down electrons are expected to be different and to depend on the degree of polarization. This expectation is not confirmed by the experiments on two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-14 Suhas Gangadharaiah , Dmitrii L. Maslov

Recent experiments have revealed that superconductivity in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene can emerge from a valley-polarized and, hence, chiral normal state. The interplay of pairing and the reduced normal-state symmetries sparked…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-21 Yinqi Chen , Mathias S. Scheurer , Constantin Schrade

In the framework of full Maxwell equations, we systematically study the electromagnetic radiation, namely the transition radiation, when a swift electron perpendicularly crosses a monolayer graphene. Based on the plane wave expansion and…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-03 Jialin Chen , Hongsheng Chen , Xiao Lin

A new type of quasi-two-dimensional complex plasma system was observed which consisted of monodisperse microspheres and their binary agglomerations (dimers). The particles and their dimers levitated in a plasma sheath at slightly different…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 M. Chaudhuri , I. Semenov , V. Nosenko , H. M. Thomas

In [Phys. Rev. Lett. vol. 119, p. 133901 (2017)] it was argued that two parallel graphene layers in the presence of electron drift support unstable plasmon modes. Here we show that the predicted plasmon instability is an artifact of errors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Dmitry Svintsov , Victor Ryzhii

The nonlinear shift current, also known as the bulk photovoltaic current generated by linearly polarized light, has long been known to be absent in crystals with inversion symmetry. Here we argue that a non-zero shift current in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Li-kun Shi , Dong Zhang , Kai Chang , Justin C. W. Song

Intense efforts have been made in recent years to realize nonlinear optical interactions at the single-photon level. Much of this work has focused on achieving strong third-order nonlinearities, such as by using single atoms or other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Marco T. Manzoni , Iván Silveiro , F. Javier García de Abajo , Darrick E. Chang

A cold electron beam propagating through a background plasma is subject to filamentation process due to theWeibel instability. If the initial beam radius is large compared with the electron skin depth and the beam density is much smaller…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-09-05 Vladimir Khudik , Igor Kaganovich , Gennady Shvets

Oscillatory magnetoresistance measurements on graphene have revealed a wealth of novel physics. These phenomena are typically studied at low currents. At high currents, electrons are driven far from equilibrium with the atomic lattice…

We address the spatially nonlocal dielectric functions of graphene at any frequency derived starting fromthe first principles of thermal quantum field theory using the formalism of the polarization tensor. After a brief review of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 V. M. Mostepanenko , G. L. Klimchitskaya

The drag of massless fermions in graphene double-layer structures is investigated in a wide rage of temperatures and inter-layer separations. We show that the inhomogeneity of the dielectric background in such graphene structures for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 S. M. Badalyan , F. M. Peeters

We investigate the origin of the translational symmetry breaking in epitaxially grown single-layer graphene. Despite the surface morphology of homogeneous graphene films influenced by the presence of mutually parallel SiC surface terraces,…