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 …

Nonreciprocal and topological plasmonics

K Shastri, MI Abdelrahman, F Monticone - Photonics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Metals, semiconductors, metamaterials, and various two-dimensional materials with
plasmonic dispersion exhibit numerous exotic physical effects in the presence of an external …

Expanding momentum bandgaps in photonic time crystals through resonances

X Wang, P Garg, MS Mirmoosa, AG Lamprianidis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The realization of photonic time crystals is a major opportunity but also comes with
considerable challenges. The most pressing one, potentially, is the requirement for a …

A truly one-way lane for surface plasmon polaritons

F Monticone - Nature Photonics, 2020 - nature.com
Unidirectional and topological surface plasmon polaritons are currently attracting substantial
interest and intense debate. Realistic material models and energy conservation …

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 …

Physical violations of the bulk-edge correspondence in topological electromagnetics

SA Hassani Gangaraj, F Monticone - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
In this Letter, we discuss two general classes of apparent violations of the bulk-edge
correspondence principle for continuous topological photonic materials, associated with the …

Nonequilibrium lateral force and torque by thermally excited nonreciprocal surface electromagnetic waves

C Khandekar, S Buddhiraju, PR Wilkinson… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We show that an isotropic dipolar particle in the vicinity of a substrate made of nonreciprocal
plasmonic materials can experience a lateral thermal-fluctuations-induced force and torque …

Plasmon-mediated photochemical transformation of inorganic nanocrystals

Y Zhu, M Guan, J Wang, H Sheng, Y Chen… - Applied Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Owing to the extraordinary optical properties, plasmonic nanostructures have been applied
in many fields, particularly in triggering or accelerating chemical reactions. Because of the …

Tunable unidirectional surface plasmon polaritons at the interface between gyrotropic and isotropic conductors

Y Liang, S Pakniyat, Y Xiang, J Chen, F Shi… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Unidirectionally propagated electromagnetic waves are rare in nature but heavily sought
after due to their potential applications in backscatter-free optical information processing …

Drifting electrons: Nonreciprocal plasmonics and thermal photonics

SA Hassani Gangaraj, F Monticone - ACS photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
Light propagates symmetrically in opposite directions in most natural and artificial materials.
This fact, a consequence of the Lorentz reciprocity principle, has tremendous implications for …