Singular and Nonsingular Transitions in the Infrared Plasmons of Nearly Touching Nanocube Dimers

Y Wu, A Konečná, SH Cho, DJ Milliron, JA Hachtel… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Narrow gaps between plasmon-supporting materials can confine infrared electromagnetic
energy at the nanoscale, thus enabling applications in areas such as optical sensing …

Carrier diffusion in semiconductor nanoscale resonators

M Saldutti, Y Yu, G Kountouris, P Trøst Kristensen… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
It is shown that semiconductor nanoscale resonators with extreme dielectric confinement
accelerate the diffusion of electron-hole pairs excited by nonlinear absorption. The response …

Self-assembling structures close the gap to trap light

T Asano - 2023 - nature.com
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Analysis of stability and near-equilibrium dynamics of self-assembled Casimir cavities

M Krasnov, A Mazitov, N Orekhov, DG Baranov - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Vacuum fluctuations are a fundamental and irremovable property of a quantized
electromagnetic field. These fluctuations are the cause of the Casimir effect—mutual …

Omnidirectional gradient force optical trapping in dielectric nanocavities by inverse design

BMA Jokisch, BF Gøtzsche, PT Kristensen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Optical trapping enables precise control of individual particles of different sizes, such as
atoms, molecules, or nanospheres. Optical tweezers provide free-space omnidirectional …

On-demand heralded MIR single-photon source using a cascaded quantum system

J Iles-Smith, MK Svendsen, A Rubio, M Wubs… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose a novel mechanism for generating single photons in the mid-Infrared (MIR)
using a solid-state or molecular quantum emitter. The scheme utilises cavity QED effects to …

Waveguide and cavity quantum electrodynamics with topological bowtie modes

A Vladimirova, G Arregui, S Lepeshov… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present a theoretical study on photonic topological crystals whose symmetry is governed
by quantum valley-Hall topological insulators and whose propagating edge modes are …

Orders-of-magnitude reduction in photonic mode volume by nano-sculpting

RE Christiansen, J Mørk, O Sigmund - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16461, 2024 - arxiv.org
Three-dimensionally sculpted dielectric nanostructures supporting material (air) confined
optical modes with single-emitter mode volumes three (four) orders of magnitude below the …

High-Efficiency Low-Noise Optomechanical Crystal Photon-Phonon Transducers

S Sonar, U Hatipoglu, S Meesala, D Lake… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Optomechanical crystals (OMCs) enable coherent interactions between optical photons and
microwave acoustic phonons, and represent a platform for implementing quantum …

Silicon photonic bowtie cavities with atomic-scale dimensions

AN Babar, TAS Weis, K Tsoukalas… - Photonic and …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Recent progress in photonics has highlighted the importance of miniaturization, particularly
in achieving dielectric bowtie cavities with small mode volumes, which were previously …