Photoluminescence from a gold nanotip in an accelerated reference frame

Abstract

Photoluminescence from a gold nanotip, which is induced by surface plasmons propagating over a curved tapered nanotip surface is considered in a co-moving accelerated reference frame. Similar to the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) effect, nonlinear optical mixing of the surface plasmons with the Unruh quanta is supposed to be enhanced by many orders of magnitude.

Accepted for publication in Phys. Letters A 4 pages, 3 figures

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