Mesoscopic electrodynamics at metal surfaces: —From quantum-corrected hydrodynamics to microscopic surface-response formalism

NA Mortensen - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
Plasmonic phenomena in metals are commonly explored within the framework of classical
electrodynamics and semiclassical models for the interactions of light with free-electron …

Finite-size and quantum effects in plasmonics: manifestations and theoretical modelling

PE Stamatopoulou, C Tserkezis - Optical Materials Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The tremendous growth of the field of plasmonics in the past twenty years owes much to the
pre-existence of solid theoretical foundations. Rather than calling for the introduction of …

Quantum nanophotonics in two-dimensional materials

A Reserbat-Plantey, I Epstein, I Torre, AT Costa… - Acs …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The field of two-dimensional (2D) materials-based nanophotonics has been growing at a
rapid pace, triggered by the ability to design nanophotonic systems with in situ control …

Far-field excitation of single graphene plasmon cavities with ultracompressed mode volumes

I Epstein, D Alcaraz, Z Huang, VV Pusapati… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Acoustic graphene plasmons are highly confined electromagnetic modes carrying large
momentum and low loss in the mid-infrared and terahertz spectra. However, until now they …

Collective modes and terahertz near-field response of superconductors

Z Sun, MM Fogler, DN Basov, AJ Millis - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
We theoretically study the low-energy electromagnetic response of Bardeen-Cooper-
Schrieffer–type superconductors focusing on propagating collective modes that are …

Strong light–matter interactions enabled by polaritons in atomically thin materials

PAD Gonçalves, N Stenger, JD Cox… - Advanced Optical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Polaritons, resulting from the hybridization of light with polarization charges formed at the
boundaries between media with positive and negative dielectric response functions, can …

Image polaritons in van der Waals crystals

SG Menabde, JT Heiden, JD Cox, NA Mortensen… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
Polaritonic modes in low-dimensional materials enable strong light–matter interactions and
the manipulation of light on nanometer length scales. Very recently, a new class of …

Real-space imaging of acoustic plasmons in large-area graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition

SG Menabde, IH Lee, S Lee, H Ha, JT Heiden… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
An acoustic plasmon mode in a graphene-dielectric-metal structure has recently been
spotlighted as a superior platform for strong light-matter interaction. It originates from the …

Quantum surface-response of metals revealed by acoustic graphene plasmons

PAD Gonçalves, T Christensen, NMR Peres… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
A quantitative understanding of the electromagnetic response of materials is essential for the
precise engineering of maximal, versatile, and controllable light–matter interactions. Material …

Surface-response functions obtained from equilibrium electron-density profiles

NA Mortensen, PAD Gonçalves, FA Shuklin, JD Cox… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Surface-response functions are one of the most promising routes for bridging the gap
between fully quantum-mechanical calculations and phenomenological models in quantum …