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Quantum plasma physics is a rapidly evolving research field with a very inter-disciplinary scope of potential applications, ranging from nano-scale science in condensed matter to the vast scales of astrophysical objects. The theoretical…

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Exploiting non-Hermitian wave-matter interactions in time-modulated media to enable the dynamic control of electromagnetic waves requires advanced theoretical tools. In this article we bridge concepts from photonic quasinormal modes (QNMs)…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-04 Benjamin Vial , Richard V. Craster

A time-dependent theory for the interactions between spatially separated lossy cavities in a homogeneous background medium using quantized quasinormal modes (QNMs) is presented. The cavities interact via a bath of traveling photons,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Robert Meiners Fuchs , Juanjuan Ren , Sebastian Franke , Stephen Hughes , Marten Richter

The idea of the modal expansion in electromagnetics is derived from the research on electromagnetic resonators, which play an essential role in developments in nanophotonics. All of the electromagnetic resonators share a common property:…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-28 Minh Duy Truong

In this paper, we use the 'Quasi Normal Modes' (QNM) approach for discussing the transmission properties of double-side opened optical cavities: in particular, this approach is specified for one dimensional (1D) 'Photonic Band Gap' (PBG)…

Optics · Physics 2009-06-04 A. Settimi , S. Severini , B. J. Hoenders

Phenomenological approaches to photon loss have long been the workhorse of cavity-QED, but prove inadequate in the presence of sufficiently broadband light-matter interactions. We present a rigorous and ab initio derivation of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Chris Gustin , Juanjuan Ren , Sebastian Franke , Stephen Hughes

Quasi-normal modes (QNMs) are ubiquitous throughout photonics and are utilized in a wide variety of applications, but determining these modes remains a formidable task in general. Here we show that by exploiting the structure of Maxwell's…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-15 Jörn Zimmerling , Rob Remis

Resonances, also known as quasi normal modes (QNM) in the non-Hermitian case, play an ubiquitous role in all domains of physics ruled by wave phenomena, notably in continuum mechanics, acoustics, electrodynamics, and quantum theory. In this…

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

Quasinormal mode (QNM) expansion is a popular tool to analyze light-matter interaction in nanoresonators. However, expanding far-field quantities such as the energy flux is an open problem because QNMs diverge with an increasing distance to…

We study plasmonic excitations in the limit of few electrons, in one-atom thick sodium chains, and characterize them based on collectivity. We also compare the excitations to classical localised plasmon modes and find for the longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Jamie M. Fitzgerald , Sam Azadi , Vincenzo Giannini

Plasmonics has attracted much attention not only because it has useful properties such as strong field enhancement, but also because it reveals the quantum nature of matter. To handle quantum plasmonics effects, ab initio packages or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-08 Kun Ding , C. T. Chan

Plasmons are fundamental excitations of metals which can be described in terms of electron dynamics, or in terms of the electromagnetic fields associated with them. In this work we develop a quantum description of plasmons in a double layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Luis Brey , H. A. Fertig

We develop a novel approach to ultrafast optical modulation of quantum-mechanical phenomena at the interface of plasmonic metals. Focusing on efficient and versatile nanoparticle-on-mirror plasmonic nanocavities, we discuss indirect control…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-17 Artur Avdizhiyan , Ilya Razdolski , Anton Yu. Bykov

Open optical or plasmonic resonators are placed on and connected through surfaces or via waveguides, forming complex lightguiding nanostructures, e.g. for integrated photonic quantum devices. We derive general boundary conditions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Robert Meiners Fuchs , Marten Richter

The emerging field of plasmonics can lead to enhanced light matter interactions at extremely nanoscale regions. Plasmonic (metallic) devices promise to efficiently control both classical and quantum properties of light. Plasmonic waveguides…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-22 Ying Li , Christos Argyropoulos

Quantum plasmonics is a rapidly growing field of research that involves the study of the quantum properties of light and its interaction with matter at the nanoscale. Here, surface plasmons - electromagnetic excitations coupled to electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-25 M. S. Tame , K. R. McEnery , S. K. Ozdemir , J. Lee , S. A. Maier , M. S. Kim

We investigate the behaviour of the lowest nonhydrodynamic modes in a class of holographic models which exhibit an equation of state closely mimicking the one determined from lattice QCD. We calculate the lowest quasinormal mode frequencies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-01 Romuald A. Janik , Grzegorz Plewa , Hesam Soltanpanahi , Michal Spalinski

Metallic nanostructures exhibit a multitude of optical resonances associated with localized surface plasmon excitations. Recent observations of plasmonic phenomena at the sub-nanometer to atomic scale have stimulated the development of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-05 N. Asger Mortensen , Søren Raza , Martijn Wubs , Thomas Søndergaard , Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

In the past decades, quantum plasmonics has become an active area due to its potential applications in on-chip plasmonic devices for quantum information processing. However, the fundamental physical process, i.e., how a quantum state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Lei Tang , Kaimin Zheng , Jiale Guo , Yi Ouyang , Yang Wu , Chuanqing Xia , Long Li , Fang Liu , Yong Zhang , Lijian Zhang , Min Xiao