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Surface plasmons, free-electron collective oscillations in metallic nanostructures, provide abundant routes to manipulate light-electron interactions that can localize light energy and alter electromagnetic field distributions at…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Ken-ichi Uchida , Hiroto Adachi , Daisuke Kikuchi , Shun Ito , Zhiyong Qiu , Sadamichi Maekawa , Eiji Saitoh

We experimentally investigate the terahertz spectrum of plasma excitations in a plasmonic crystal based on AlGaN/GaN two-dimensional electron system (2DES). While screened plasmon modes with linear dispersion are readily observed in the…

In hyperbolic 2D materials, energy is channeled to their deep subwavelength polaritonic modes via four narrow beams. Here we consider the launching of surface polaritons in the hyperbolic 2D materials and demonstrate that efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Andrei Nemilentsau , Tobias Stauber , Guillermo Gómez-Santos , Mitchell Luskin , Tony Low

Electronic Coulomb excitations in monolayer silicene are investigated by using the Lindhard dielectric function and a newly developed generalized tight-binding model (G-TBM). G-TBM simultaneously contains the atomic interactions, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Jhao-Ying Wu , Szu-Chao Chen , Godfrey Gumbs , Ming-Fa Lin

Topological materials bear gapped excitations in bulk yet protected gapless excitations at boundaries. Magnetoplasmons (MPs), as high-frequency density excitations of two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a perpendicular magnetic field,…

We report a plasmon-polaron mode of a 2D electron gas occupying surface states of a 3D topological crystal. This new, low-frequency, acoustic plasmon mode splits-off from the conventional spin-plasmon mode as a result of strong interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Alex Shvonski , Krzysztof Kempa

We show that plasmons in two-dimensional graphene can have net gain at terahertz frequencies. The coupling of the plasmons to interband electron-hole transitions in population inverted graphene layers can lead to plasmon amplification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Farhan Rana , Faisal R. Ahmad

In recent years, enhanced light-matter interactions through a plethora of dipole-type polaritonic excitations have been observed in two-dimensional (2D) layered materials. In graphene, electrically tunable and highly confined…

We show that in graphene epitaxially grown on SiC the Drude absorption is transformed into a strong terahertz plasmonic peak due to natural nanoscale inhomogeneities, such as substrate terraces and wrinkles. The excitation of the plasmon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-17 I. Crassee , M. Orlita , M. Potemski , A. L. Walter , M. Ostler , Th. Seyller , I. Gaponenko , J. Chen , A. B. Kuzmenko

We investigate the field and spin-momentum coupling of edge plasmons hosted by general two-dimensional materials and identify sweet spots depending on the polarisation plane, ellipticity and the position of an electric dipole relative to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-25 T. Stauber , A. Nemilentsau , T. Low , G. Gómez-Santos

We investigate the low-energy spectrum of excitations of a compressible electron liquid in a strong magnetic field. These excitations are localized at the periphery of the system. The analysis of a realistic model of a smooth edge yields…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 I. L. Aleiner , L. I. Glazman

Two-dimensional (2D) metals can host gapless plasmonic excitations, which strongly couple to electrons and thus may significantly affect superconductivity in layered materials. To investigate the dynamical interplay of the electron-electron…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-21 Yann in 't Veld , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Andrew J. Millis , Malte Rösner

The physics of light-matter interactions is strongly constrained by both the small value of the fine-structure constant and the small size of the atom. Overcoming these limitations is a long-standing challenge. Recent theoretical and…

We present a theoretical study of the elementary electronic excitation associated with plasmon modes in a two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) in the presence of spin-orbit (SO) interaction induced by the Rashba effect. The calculation is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Xu , L. B. Lin

The two-dimensional (2D) materials are highly susceptible to the influence of their neighbors, thereby enabling the design by proximity phenomena. We reveal a remarkable terahertz (THz) spin-light interaction in 2D Dirac materials that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Konstantin S. Denisov , Igor V. Rozhansky , Sergio O. Valenzuela , Igor Žutić

Plasmons, the collective excitations of electrons in the bulk or at the surface, play an important role in the properties of materials, and have generated the field of Plasmonics. We report the observation of a highly unusual acoustic…

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

We present a robust technique for computationally studying surface polariton modes in hybrid materials. We use a semi-classical model that allows us to understand the physics behind the interactions between collective excitations of the…

Surface plasmons, which allow extreme confinement of light, suffer from high intrinsic electronic losses. It has been shown that stimulated emission of electrons can transfer energy to plasmons and compensate for the high intrinsic losses.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Sang Hyun Park , Michael Sammon , Eugene Mele , Tony Low

A terahertz metamaterial consisting of radiative slot antennas and subradiant complementary split-ring resonators exhibits plasmon induced opacity in a narrow spectral range due to the destructive interference between the bright and dark…