Massive surface-plasmon polaritons

Nikolai B. Chichkov; Andrey B. Evlyukhin; Boris N. Chichkov

doi:10.1515/nanoph-2021-0293

Massive surface-plasmon polaritons

Nikolai B. Chichkov, Andrey B. Evlyukhin, Boris N. Chichkov^*

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Abstract

It is well-known that a quantum of light (photon) has a zero mass in vacuum. Entering into a medium the photon creates a quasiparticle (polariton, plasmon, surface-phonon, surface-plasmon polariton, etc.) whose rest mass is generally not zero. In this letter, devoted to the memory of Mark Stockman, we evaluate the rest mass of light-induced surface-plasmon polaritons (SPPs) and discuss an idea that collisions of two massive SPP quasiparticles can result in changes of their frequencies according to the energy and momentum conservation laws.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3777-3778
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nanophotonics
Volume	10
Issue number	14
Early online date	8 Sept 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2021-0293
Publication status	Published - 2 Oct 2021

Bibliographical note

© 2021 Nikolai B. Chichkov et al., published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License

Funding: N.B.C. has received funding from
the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie
grant agreement No 843801. A.B.E. and B.N.C. acknowledge financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under
Germany’s Excellence Strategy within the Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD (EXC 2122, Project ID 390833453) and the
Cluster of Excellence QuantumFrontiers (EXC 2123, Project
ID 390837967)

Keywords

localized plasmons
quantum plasmonics
surface-plasmon polaritons

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