Light-matter interactions with photonic quasiparticles
arXiv:2004.07748 · doi:10.1038/s42254-020-0224-2
Abstract
Interactions between light and matter play an instrumental role in many fields of science, giving rise to important applications in spectroscopy, sensing, quantum information processing, and lasers. In most of these applications, light is considered in terms of electromagnetic plane waves that propagate at the speed of light in vacuum. As a result, light-matter interactions can usually be treated as very weak, and captured at the lowest order in quantum electrodynamics (QED). However, recent progress in coupling photons to material quasiparticles (e.g., plasmons, phonons, and excitons) forces us to generalize the way we picture the photon at the core of every light-matter interaction. In this new picture, the photon, now of partly matter-character, can have greatly different polarization and dispersion, and be confined to the scale of a few nanometers. Such photonic quasiparticles enable a wealth of light-matter interaction phenomena that could not have been observed before, both in interactions with bound electrons and with free electrons. This Review focuses on exciting theoretical and experimental developments in realizing new light-matter interactions with photonic quasiparticles. As just a few examples, we discuss how photonic quasiparticles enable room-temperature strong coupling, ultrafast "forbidden transitions" in atoms, and new applications of the Cherenkov effect, as well as breakthroughs in ultrafast electron microscopy and new concepts for compact X-ray sources.
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