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On the transmission of light through a single rectangular hole
In this Letter we show that a single rectangular hole exhibits transmission
resonances that appear near the cutoff wavelength of the hole waveguide. For
light polarized with the electric field pointing along the short axis, it is
shown that the normalized-to-area transmittance at resonance is proportional to
the ratio between the long and short sides, and to the dielectric constant
inside the hole. Importantly, this resonant transmission process is accompanied
by a huge enhancement of the electric field at both entrance and exit
interfaces of the hole. These findings open the possibility of using
rectangular holes for spectroscopic purposes or for exploring non-linear
effects.Comment: Submitted to PRL on Feb. 9th, 200
Non-reciprocal few-photon devices based on chiral waveguide-emitter couplings
We demonstrate the possibility of designing efficient, non reciprocal
few-photon devices by exploiting the chiral coupling between two waveguide
modes and a single quantum emitter. We show how this system can induce
non-reciprocal photon transport at the single-photon level and act as an
optical diode. Afterwards, we also show how the same system shows a
transistor-like behaviour for a two-photon input. The efficiency in both cases
is shown to be large for feasible experimental implementations. Our results
illustrate the potential of chiral waveguide-emitter couplings for applications
in quantum circuitry.Comment: Mathematica notebook attached for calculation of detection
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A chiral route to spontaneous entanglement generation
We study the generation of spontaneous entanglement between two qubits
chirally coupled to a waveguide. The maximum achievable concurrence is
demonstrated to increase by a factor of as compared to the
non-chiral coupling situation. The proposed entanglement scheme is shown to be
robust against variation of the qubit properties such as detuning and
separation, which are critical in the non-chiral case. This result relaxes the
restrictive requirements of the non-chiral situation, paving the way towards a
realistic implementation. Our results demonstrate the potential of chiral
waveguides for quantum entanglement protocols.Comment: 5 pages + 1 page supplemental, 4 figure
Harvesting Excitons Through Plasmonic Strong Coupling
Exciton harvesting is demonstrated in an ensemble of quantum emitters coupled
to localized surface plasmons. When the interaction between emitters and the
dipole mode of a metallic nanosphere reaches the strong coupling regime, the
exciton conductance is greatly increased. The spatial map of the conductance
matches the plasmon field intensity profile, which indicates that transport
properties can be tuned by adequately tailoring the field of the plasmonic
resonance. Under strong coupling, we find that pure dephasing can have
detrimental or beneficial effects on the conductance, depending on the
effective number of participating emitters. Finally, we show that the exciton
transport in the strong coupling regime occurs on an ultrafast timescale given
by the inverse Rabi splitting (fs), orders of magnitude faster than
transport through direct hopping between the emitters.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Localized spoof plasmons arise while texturing closed surfaces
We demonstrate that textured closed surfaces, i.e., particles made of perfect electric conductors (PECs), are able to support localized electromagnetic resonances with properties resembling those of localized surface plasmons (LSPs) in the optical regime. Because of their similar behavior, we name these types of resonances as spoof LSPs. As a way of example, we show the existence of spoof LSPs in periodically textured PEC cylinders and the almost perfect analogy to optical plasmonics. We also present a metamaterial approach that captures the basic ingredients of their electromagnetic respons
Non-Markovian effects in waveguide-mediated entanglement
We study the generation and evolution of entanglement between two qubits
coupled through one-dimensional waveguide modes. By using a complete quantum
electrodynamical formalism we go beyond the Markovian approximation. The
diagonalization of the hamiltonian is carried out, and a set of quasi-localized
eigenstates is found. We show that when the qubit-waveguide coupling is
increased, the Markov approximation is not anymore valid, and the generation of
entanglement is worsened.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure
Channel plasmon-polaritons: modal shape, dispersion, and losses
We theoretically study channel plasmon-polaritons (CPPs) with a geometry
similar to that in recent experiments at telecom wavelengths (Bozhevolnyi et
al., Nature 440, 508 (2006)). The CPP modal shape, dispersion relation, and
losses are simulated using the multiple multipole method and the finite
difference time domain technique. It is shown that, with the increase of the
wavelength, the fundamental CPP mode shifts progressively towards the groove
opening, ceasing to be guided at the groove bottom and becoming hybridized with
wedge plasmon-polaritons running along the groove edges.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Evaluation of non-ohmic losses with overlap integrals
2 pages, 1 figure.In the main text of the paper corresponding to the present document, WPP--SPP conversion
devices are considered. Reflection and radiation losses in such structures are evaluated by means of
overlap integrals. In this Auxiliary Material section details of such procedure are provided.Peer reviewe
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