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Exciton-polaritons formed inside optical cavities offer a highly tunable platform for exploring novel quantum phenomena. Here, we introduce and theoretically characterize a light-matter moir\'e effect (LMME) that arises when a 2D material…

Anisotropic hyperbolic phonon polaritons (PhPs) in natural biaxial hyperbolic material MoO$_3$ has opened up new avenues for mid-infrared nanophotonics, while active tunability of $\alpha$-MoO$_3$ PhPs is still an urgent problem needing to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Kun Zhou , Yang Hu , Xiaoxing Zhong , Xiaohu Wu

We theoretically propose and study in-plane anisotropic acoustic phonon polaritons (APhPs) based on a layered structure consisting of a monolayer (or few layers) {\alpha}-phase molybdenum trioxide ({\alpha}-MoO3) sandwiched between two…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-19 Qizhi Yan , Runkun Chen , Zhu Yuan , Peining Li , Xinliang Zhang

Polaritons are light-matter quasiparticles that govern the optical response of quantum materials and enable their nanophotonic applications. We have studied a new type of polaritons arising in magnetized graphene encapsulated in hexagonal…

The hyperbolic dispersion relation of phonon-polaritons (PhPol) provides high-momentum states, highly directional propagation, subdiffractional confinement, large optical density of states, and enhanced light-matter interactions. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-12 A. Bergeron , C. Gradziel , R. Leonelli , S. Francoeur

Phonons play a central role in fundamental solid-state phenomena, including superconductivity, Raman scattering, and symmetry-breaking phases. Harnessing phonons to control these effects and enable quantum technologies is therefore of great…

We investigate light-matter coupling in metallic crystals where plasmons coexist with phonons exhibiting large oscillator strength. We demonstrate theoretically that this coexistence can lead to strong light-matter interactions without…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-25 David Hagenmüller , Johannes Schachenmayer , Cyriaque Genet , Thomas W. Ebbesen , Guido Pupillo

We theoretically study in-plane acoustic phonons of graphene/hexagonal boron nitride moir\'e superlattice by using a continuum model. We demonstrate that the original phonon bands of individual layers are strongly hybridized and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Lukas P. A. Krisna , Mikito Koshino

The confinement of electromagnetic radiation to subwavelength scales relies on strong light-matter interactions. In the infrared (IR) and terahertz (THz) spectral ranges, phonon polaritons are commonly employed to achieve extremely…

One of the most captivating properties of polaritons is their capacity to confine light at the nanoscale. This confinement is even more extreme in two-dimensional (2D) materials. 2D polaritons have been investigated by optical measurements…

Phonon-polaritons (PP) are phonon-photon coupled modes. Using near-forward Raman scattering, the PP of the cubic Zn(1-x)MgxTe (x<0.09) semiconductor alloy could be measured. While the PP-coupling hardly develops in pure ZnTe, minor…

Hybrid lattice-light modes, known as phonon-polaritons, represent the backbone of advanced protocols based on THz pumping of infrared modes. Here we provide a theoretical framework able to capture the different roles played by…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-02 Niccolò Sellati , Jacopo Fiore , Stefano Paolo Villani , Lara Benfatto , Mattia Udina

Controlling matter-light interactions with cavities is of fundamental importance in modern science and technology. It is exemplified in the strong-coupling regime, where matter-light hybrid modes form, with properties controllable via the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Long Zhang , Fengcheng Wu , Shaocong Hou , Zhe Zhang , Yu-Hsun Chou , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Stephen R. Forrest , Hui Deng

Extreme confinement of electromagnetic energy by phonon polaritons holds the promise of strong and new forms of control over the dynamics of matter. To bring such control to the atomic-scale limit, it is important to consider phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Nicholas Rivera , Thomas Christensen , Prineha Narang

Hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) enable the direct manipulation of mid-infrared light at nanometer scales, many orders of magnitude below the free-space light wavelength. High resolution monochromated…

Phonon polaritons (PhPs), the collective phonon oscillations with hybridized electromagnetic fields, concentrate optical fields in the mid-infrared frequency range that matches the vibrational modes of molecules. The utilization of PhPs…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-24 Haomin Wang , Eli Janzen , Le Wang , James H. Edgar , Xiaoji G. Xu

The plasmon and phonon polaritons of two-dimensional (2d) and van-der-Waals materials have recently gained substantial interest. Unfortunately, they are notoriously hard to observe in linear response because of their strong confinement, low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Christian Wolff , N. Asger Mortensen

We provide a framework to theoretically describe long-range energy transfer in single and twisted two-dimensional hyperbolic slabs. We demonstrate that phonon polaritons (PhPs, quantum superpositions of photons and lattice vibrations in…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-09 Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez , Simone De Liberato , Huatian Hu

Tailoring light-matter interaction is essential to realize nanophotonic components. It can be achieved with surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs), an excitation of photons coupled with phonons of polar crystals, which also occur in 2d materials…

Collective quantum phenomena, such as the excitation of composite fermions1, spin waves2, and exciton condensation3,4, can emerge in strongly correlated systems like the fractional quantum Hall states5, spin liquids6, or excitonic…