Interface nano-optics with van der Waals polaritons

Q Zhang, G Hu, W Ma, P Li, A Krasnok, R Hillenbrand… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Polaritons are hybrid excitations of matter and photons. In recent years, polaritons in van der
Waals nanomaterials—known as van der Waals polaritons—have shown great promise to …

Polariton panorama

DN Basov, A Asenjo-Garcia, PJ Schuck, X Zhu… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
In this brief review, we summarize and elaborate on some of the nomenclature of polaritonic
phenomena and systems as they appear in the literature on quantum materials and …

Observation of chiral and slow plasmons in twisted bilayer graphene

T Huang, X Tu, C Shen, B Zheng, J Wang, H Wang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Moiré superlattices have led to observations of exotic emergent electronic properties such
as superconductivity and strong correlated states in small-rotation-angle twisted bilayer …

Towards properties on demand in quantum materials

DN Basov, RD Averitt, D Hsieh - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
The past decade has witnessed an explosion in the field of quantum materials, headlined by
the predictions and discoveries of novel Landau-symmetry-broken phases in correlated …

Light–valley interactions in 2D semiconductors

KF Mak, D Xiao, J Shan - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
The emergence of two-dimensional Dirac materials, particularly transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs), has reinvigorated interest in valleytronics, which utilizes the …

Polaritons in layered two-dimensional materials

T Low, A Chaves, JD Caldwell, A Kumar, NX Fang… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
In recent years, enhanced light–matter interactions through a plethora of dipole-type
polaritonic excitations have been observed in two-dimensional (2D) layered materials. In …

Polaritons in van der Waals materials

DN Basov, MM Fogler, FJ García de Abajo - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Light trapped at the nanoscale, deep below the optical wavelength, exhibits
an increase in the associated electric field strength, which results in enhanced light-matter …

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 …

Fizeau drag in graphene plasmonics

Y Dong, L Xiong, IY Phinney, Z Sun, R Jing… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Dragging of light by moving media was predicted by Fresnel and verified by Fizeau's
celebrated experiments with flowing water. This momentous discovery is among the …

Temperature dependence of wavelength selectable zero-phonon emission from single defects in hexagonal boron nitride

NR Jungwirth, B Calderon, Y Ji, MG Spencer… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We investigate the distribution and temperature-dependent optical properties of sharp, zero-
phonon emission from defect-based single photon sources in multilayer hexagonal boron …