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A theory of evanescent mode atomic mirrors utilising a metallic sheet on a dielectric substrate is described. The emphasis here is on the role of the metallic sheet and on the evaluation of atomic trajectories using the field- dipole…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. B. Kirk , C. R. Bennett , M. Babiker , S. Al-Awfi

Currently epsilon near zero materials (ENZ) have become important for controlling the propagation of light and enhancing by several orders of magnitude the Kerr and other nonlinearities. Given this advance it is important to examine the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 S. -A. Biehs , G. S. Agarwal

The strong electron-electron interaction in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) gives rise to phenomena such as strong exciton and trion binding and excitonic condensation, as well as large negative exchange and correlation…

The quantum Zeno effect (QZE) reveals that frequent measurements can suppress quantum evolution, but the detailed dynamics of the system under finite-duration measurements in experiments remain insufficiently explored. Here, we employ an…

For distances less 10 nm, a total energy transfer occurs from a quantum emitter to a nearby metallic surface, producing evanescent surface waves that are plasmonic in nature. When investigating a metallic nanohole supported on an optically…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-16 Amir Djalalian-Assl

A light beam normally incident upon an uniformly moving dielectric medium is in general subject to bendings due to a transverse Fresnel-Fizeau light drag effect. In conventional dielectrics, the magnitude of this bending effect is very…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Iacopo Carusotto , Maurizio Artoni , Giuseppe La Rocca , Franco Bassani

Near-infrared epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterial slabs based on silver-germanium (Ag-Ge) multilayers are experimentally demonstrated. Transmission, reflection and absorption spectra are characterized and used to determine the complex…

In this work, we analyze anomalous effects observed in the operation of two different technological devices: a magnetic core and a parallel plate (symmetrical or asymmetrical) capacitor. From experimental measurements on both devices, we…

General Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Elio B. Porcelli , Victo S. Filho

We analyze different factors which influence the negative refraction in solids and multi-atom molecules. We find that this negative refraction is significantly influenced by simultaneous multi-electron transitions with the same transition…

The swift excitation of the transparent dielectrics by intense short laser pulse produces ultra-fast re-structuring of the electronic landscape generating a wealth of material states continuously changing in space and in time in accord with…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-04 E. G. Gamaly , A. V. Rode

Experiments have shown strong effects of some substrates on the localized plasmons of metallic nano particles but they are inconclusive on the affecting parameters. Here we have used Discrete Dipole Approximation in conjunction with…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-04 Murugesan Venkatapathi , Abhay K. Tiwari

Within the frame of quantum optics we analyze the properties of spontaneous emission of two-level atom in media with indefinite permittivity tensor where the geometry of the dispersion relation is characterized by an ellipsoid or a…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-06 Zheng Liu , Wei Li , Xunya Jiang

We show theoretically that finite two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals in thin semiconductor membranes strongly modify the spontaneous emission rate of embedded dipole emitters. Three-dimensional Finite-Difference Time-Domain calculations…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-08-21 A. F. Koenderink , M. Kafesaki , C. M. Soukoulis , V. Sandoghdar

Dielectric nano-swithes made of the materials that exhibit piezoelectric and/or flexoelectric properties with significant electro-mechanical coupling are considered. In this case, a nonuniform strain field may locally break inversion…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-16 M. M. Toropova

Considerable progress has been made in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) to achieve high external quantum efficiency (EQE), among which the dipole orientation of OLED emitters has a remarkable effect. In most cases, EQE of the OLED…

The entanglement and resonance energy transfer between two-level quantum emitters are typically limited to sub-wavelength distances due to the inherently short-range nature of the dipole-dipole interactions. Moreover, the entanglement of…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-09 Ying Li , Andrei Nemilentsau , Christos Argyropoulos

This paper provides a theoretical investigation of negative refraction and focusing of elastic guided waves in a free-standing plate with a step-like thickness change. Under certain conditions, a positive phase velocity (forward) Lamb mode…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-01-02 François Legrand , Benoît Gérardin , Jérôme Laurent , Claire Prada , Alexandre Aubry

This article addresses a number of issues associated with the problem of calculating contributions from the electromagnetic quantum induced energy and stress in a stationary material with an inhomogeneous polarizability. After briefly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-01 S. Goto , R. W. Tucker , T. J. Walton

Interference is the cornerstone of Huygens source design for reshaping and controlling scattering patterns. The conventional underpinning principle, such as for the Kerker effect, is the interference of electric and magnetic dipole and…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-26 Xia Zhang , A Louise Bradley

We study the refraction effect of electronic wave in hole-doped lateral heterojunctions of metallic and semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers. This effect is theoretically investigated in 2$H$-type MoSe$_2$-NbS$_2$ and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Tetsuro Habe