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Single-plasmon interferences

Surface plasmon polaritons are electromagnetic waves coupled to collective electron oscillations propagating along metal-dielectric interfaces, exhibiting a bosonic character. Recent experiments involving surface plasmons guided by wires or stripes allowed the reproduction of quantum optics effects,...

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Autores principales: Dheur, Marie-Christine, Devaux, Eloïse, Ebbesen, Thomas W., Baron, Alexandre, Rodier, Jean-Claude, Hugonin, Jean-Paul, Lalanne, Philippe, Greffet, Jean-Jacques, Messin, Gaétan, Marquier, François
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Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4795678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26998521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501574
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author Dheur, Marie-Christine
Devaux, Eloïse
Ebbesen, Thomas W.
Baron, Alexandre
Rodier, Jean-Claude
Hugonin, Jean-Paul
Lalanne, Philippe
Greffet, Jean-Jacques
Messin, Gaétan
Marquier, François
author_facet Dheur, Marie-Christine
Devaux, Eloïse
Ebbesen, Thomas W.
Baron, Alexandre
Rodier, Jean-Claude
Hugonin, Jean-Paul
Lalanne, Philippe
Greffet, Jean-Jacques
Messin, Gaétan
Marquier, François
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description Surface plasmon polaritons are electromagnetic waves coupled to collective electron oscillations propagating along metal-dielectric interfaces, exhibiting a bosonic character. Recent experiments involving surface plasmons guided by wires or stripes allowed the reproduction of quantum optics effects, such as antibunching with a single surface plasmon state, coalescence with a two-plasmon state, conservation of squeezing, or entanglement through plasmonic channels. We report the first direct demonstration of the wave-particle duality for a single surface plasmon freely propagating along a planar metal-air interface. We develop a platform that enables two complementary experiments, one revealing the particle behavior of the single-plasmon state through antibunching, and the other one where the interferences prove its wave nature. This result opens up new ways to exploit quantum conversion effects between different bosonic species as shown here with photons and polaritons.
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spelling pubmed-47956782016-03-18 Single-plasmon interferences Dheur, Marie-Christine Devaux, Eloïse Ebbesen, Thomas W. Baron, Alexandre Rodier, Jean-Claude Hugonin, Jean-Paul Lalanne, Philippe Greffet, Jean-Jacques Messin, Gaétan Marquier, François Sci Adv Research Articles Surface plasmon polaritons are electromagnetic waves coupled to collective electron oscillations propagating along metal-dielectric interfaces, exhibiting a bosonic character. Recent experiments involving surface plasmons guided by wires or stripes allowed the reproduction of quantum optics effects, such as antibunching with a single surface plasmon state, coalescence with a two-plasmon state, conservation of squeezing, or entanglement through plasmonic channels. We report the first direct demonstration of the wave-particle duality for a single surface plasmon freely propagating along a planar metal-air interface. We develop a platform that enables two complementary experiments, one revealing the particle behavior of the single-plasmon state through antibunching, and the other one where the interferences prove its wave nature. This result opens up new ways to exploit quantum conversion effects between different bosonic species as shown here with photons and polaritons. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2016-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4795678/ /pubmed/26998521 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501574 Text en Copyright © 2016, The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.
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Greffet, Jean-Jacques
Messin, Gaétan
Marquier, François
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4795678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26998521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501574
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